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yaesu

(8,020 posts)
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 01:02 PM Sep 2022

Russian forces have continued looting as Ukrainian troops push them further east

the general staff of Ukraine’s armed forces said in today’s daily briefing.

Officials said that on a section of the highway running north and south between Starobilsk and Luhansk, they spotted about 300 civilian vehicles, mostly with the state license plates of the Kharkiv region, heading in the direction of Luhansk. Most of these vehicles had “trailers loaded with looted property” and were being driven by Russian military.

In Polohy, a city in the Zaporizhzhia region in the south of the country, “Russian occupants break the gates of private garages, take private cars from locals,” the general staff said. Meanwhile in the Kherson region, the general staff said similar behaviour was noted in the removal of “furniture and household appliances from temporarily abandoned homes”.

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Russian forces have continued looting as Ukrainian troops push them further east (Original Post) yaesu Sep 2022 OP
They are clearly a depraved bunch. CentralMass Sep 2022 #1
Anyone else remember this gem? Michael Flynn back in March... ck4829 Sep 2022 #2
Wow. I'd missed that. underpants Sep 2022 #4
Hopefully, this behavior will scotch any sympathies Crimeans may feel for Russia. Midnight Writer Sep 2022 #3
Looting is just another example of lack of leadership and discipline. Chainfire Sep 2022 #5
The criminality is coming from the top. Irish_Dem Sep 2022 #6

underpants

(182,904 posts)
4. Wow. I'd missed that.
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 02:30 PM
Sep 2022

I kicked the thread. I have no idea if it moves older threads back up to the top.

Genius.

Chainfire

(17,644 posts)
5. Looting is just another example of lack of leadership and discipline.
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 02:30 PM
Sep 2022

Instead of wanting to whip the enemy they want to steal and run. They are thugs not soldiers.

Irish_Dem

(47,453 posts)
6. The criminality is coming from the top.
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 03:04 PM
Sep 2022

The Russian generals looted the military budget.

Putin looted the entire Russian economy.

Why wouldn't the troops loot everything they can?

The notion of discipline in a professionally run military does not compute for the Russian military.

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