GREAT NEWS /sarc: 7 busses of Russian soldiers with Radiation Syndrome arrive in Belarus

[uponit7771]

Last edited Thu Mar 31, 2022, 05:52 AM - Edit history (1)

"that's what happens when you screw with radiation like it's a play ground"

EDIT FOR CAVEAT: Looks like the root source of this info is from Telegraph App so it is yet to be confirmed but probability is not low it be true in some form seeing RA was kicking around radioactive dust and breathing it in.

EDIT FOR VERIFICATION: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/retreating-russian-troops-leaving-chernobyl-26596437

EDIT FOR Sarc tag

Link to tweet

[Effete Snob]

1. Dumfucks

[dchill]

2. WTF, Putin. DIE already!

[applegrove]

3. That's tragic. It is not the 20 year old Russian soldier's fault Putin is a monster. N/T

[Hekate]

5. This

[zuul]

9. Yep. This is horrendous.

[PittBlue]

18. And he and TFG live on. There is no justice in this world.

[North Shore Chicago]

49. x 1000

[Wingus Dingus]

24. These soldiers are holding Ukrainians hostage at Chernobyl, for weeks--

not enough food, not enough sleep, just endless shifts at gunpoint. So, I have limited sympathy for the terrorists. Edit to add: the Ukrainian nuclear plant workers are being exposed, but I guess there's no treatment for them.

[GoCubsGo]

26. Yep, and probably all conscripts, too.

It's absolutely horrifying as it is, but he's doing this to his own troops? I'm just going to assume that the OP's "GREAT NEWS" is sarcasm.

[BlackSkimmer]

30. Agree.

Very sad for them.

[hlthe2b]

31. Yes. I think the OP was being ironic or sarcastic. These conscripts are nothing more than what was

once referred to as cannon fodder.

[onecaliberal]

33. They're killing people so yeah. Play stupid games, win deadly prizes.

[brooklynite]

4. Conscripts being irradiated is "great news"?

And the same for the doctors who will have to treat them?

[SoonerPride]

7. Every Russian soldier off the battlefield is great news

For whatever reason

Surrender
Death
Capture
Sickness

Whatever takes them off the board is indeed great news.

My empathy for Russian aggressors is nil.

[Wingus Dingus]

32. Pretty much. They either surrender/desert, or they go home in boxes and bags.

That's my feelings on it. 5 weeks in, they're no longer confused as to what they're doing there, the way they were the first week. They're committing atrocities now.

[yorkster]

20. I could be wrong, but I

thought the title was more like a head smack, as in oh great, just what we've all feared would happen.

[BannonsLiver]

39. Well it's a war not a white party in the Hamptons so in that context it is.

And war is often simply a matter of attrition anyway. So yes, if one is pro Ukraine or even Ukrainian, irradiated Russian soldiers, conscripts or otherwise, is great news.

[Ocelot II]

6. Actually, that's sad. Those soldiers are Putin's cannon fodder

and they don't deserve that kind of suffering. He doesn't care, though.

[msfiddlestix]

11. Exactly.

[likesmountains 52]

15. My reaction too.

[msfiddlestix]

8. actually I feel bad for the soldiers. they were just following orders

and had no idea what they were getting involved with.

soldiers probably get similar treatment ias any other nation if not worse for failure to follow orders. probably consider it treason.

just a huge catastrophic tragedy which could and should have been avoided.

[JI7]

23. They probably aren't being told the truth

[uponit7771]

38. isn't that what Hitler's homies said ?!

[patphil]

10. They dug trenches in the radioactive forest.

That stirs up dust, which they breathed in.

[Mad_Machine76]

12. Not something I would say is "good news"

aside from the fact that Putin is an incompetent war criminal who does not care very much about his people/troops.

[lapfog_1]

19. I took the headline as sarcasm

I don't care who got radiation sickness... this is absolutely horrible news for the environment near Chernobyl.

I hope it is from prolonged exposure to dust and dirt being stirred up by human activity in the exclusion zone.

Other causes would be much more disturbing.

[Tommy Carcetti]

13. Episode 4 of the Chernobyl miniseries goes into ARS in graphic detail.

It's incredibly grim.

Don't know if I'd call it great news, but I'd call it news.

[WheelWalker]

22. I read sarcasm into the OP title. I agree...

Grim news - bleak prognosis.

[Beakybird]

14. It's bittersweet news. It's regrettable that for Putin to lose, that Russia needs to lose too.

OP shouldn't be shamed.

[Lovie777]

16. Doesn't that mean that some extent of radiation is in and around .. ...

Chernobyl area and cities.

[Wingus Dingus]

27. Yes. It's being stirred up with shelling, vehicles, digging, combat activity.

[KelleyKramer]

42. Yes, that region is a 'dead zone' and abandoned

It's been that way since the reactor blew up in the 80's. It will not be safe for humans for about the next 10,000 years.

Hate to say it, but most of those troops are probably dead men walking

[Wingus Dingus]

21. I feel bad for the Ukrainian Chernobyl workers who are held hostage there--by these same soldiers.

My sympathy lies with them. At least these soldiers are going to get treatment. Honestly, at this point, if they don't desert...fuck 'em. This is how it has to be.

[Gore1FL]

29. Even though this incident has not been verified, we know they been exposed to radiation.

That has been confirmed by several sources. This story of them being treated in Belarus might be the best for them. A bunch of young, untrained, and uninformed kids are going to die miserable deaths because they were dragged hundreds of miles away from home to work in radiation.

[uponit7771]

47. Pentagon and other state sources verified now, RA is lock zombie army in the north. No WONDER

... they're pulling back in that area, like out of a freakin horror movie.

[Gore1FL]

52. It blows my mind that they had kids dig around in radiation.

If this was a war movie, I would turn it off as too unrealistic to suspend disbelief. Yet, here we are!

[hatrack]

35. Other reports had them driving through the Red Forest (or at least where it once was) . . . .

One of the hottest of hot zones for the site.

The outcome should surprise no one.

[pecosbob]

36. I also read a report that when they arrived they drove right through the very worst part...

areas that trained personnel aren't even allowed to go because of extremely high radiation levels.

[applegrove]

37. Here is part of the story:

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=vMjT3qYrnbLXQsRWpkABMQ

[Takket]

40. i doubt any of them have a clue...

what radiation is, what Chernobyl is, why digging in the forest was a bad idea... kept in the dark by their leaders and essentially sacrificed to dig trenches.

and why are all the buses going to Belarus? Is there something wrong with the hospitals in Russia? (That's a rhetorical question. i know why Putin isn't bringing the dead and sick home).

[WhiskeyGrinder]

41. I doubt this very much. The radiation levels just aren't high enough.

[uponit7771]

46. Not if you're there a week at most and not breathing radioactive dirty. 2 weeks of digging up

... dirt trenches with radioactive dirt would kill anyone.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

48. No, it would not. Is it a good idea? No. Is it enough to send people home with ARS? Also no.

[uponit7771]

50. The radiation around the "red forest" is so bad it changed the color of the trees. The story ...

... has been confirmed by Ukr general of Chernobyl, Pentagon and multiple plant workers who say RA went throughout forest kicking up the dust for weeks and staying there.

The plant workers aren't even allowed to go into the areas the Russian solidiers did.

I'm linking the 20% fake "troop withdraw" for peace from that area to the radiation, Putrid NEVER EVER does something that's not self serving

[WhiskeyGrinder]

53. Kicking up dust for weeks is not what causes ARS.

[uponit7771]

54. breathing it in after its been kicked up does

[WhiskeyGrinder]

56. We could go back and forth on this, but it doesn't. There simply isn't enough radiation.

[uponit7771]

57. UKR, Pentagon etc disagrees, I think their assessments of length of time under that radiation is go

[muriel_volestrangler]

58. You invoke the Pentagon, but I can't see a link for that. Nuclear experts think it's wrong

See https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=16548890

"UKR" seems to mean a Ukrainian news agency, not someone in the field of health and radiation effects on it - or on what the situation at Chernobyl is.

[Meowmee]

43. I thought they determined

there were not dangerous or higher levels of radiation present there? Maybe I missed something recent that has happened.

[uponit7771]

45. If ... IF they don't dig up the radioactive dirt and breath in the dust. That's what make the area .

... unlivable.

[uponit7771]

44. Looks like the source is verified by Pentagon and other state level sources

[Oneironaut]

51. Putin should visit the soldiers in Chernobyl, you know, to boost morale.

Let’s even have a parade for him there, with lots of trucks and helicopters. Breathe deeply, Vlad.

[uponit7771]

55. +1, but he needs to stay there for a couple days ... shackin hands and what not