Inside Ukrainian Psyops
About 10 days ago a Russian officer by the name of Lieutenant Bondarev saw a message come through on WhatsApp. “Hello dickhead,” it read. “Greetings from every Ukrainian you have offended! Be aware that you will never ever have a calm life! Karma will reach you.”
Bondarev seemed less fazed than one might have expected considering his interlocutor didn’t identify himself or say how he got the lieutenant’s phone number. “Greetings,” Bondarev replied. “I don’t give a damn what you and your buddies write to me. Karma will reach you faster, so u better take care of yourself.”
“Let’s hope that your people … at least take your remains,” the mystery messenger pinged back. “Because thousands of your comrades are rotting on Ukrainian soil.”
That last part is certainly true judging by press interviews given by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and by visual evidence of snow-capped corpses of Russian cadavers. The fate of Bondarev is not known, but this exchange, one of a dozen New Lines has examined, is characteristic of a less-examined aspect of Ukraine’s impressive defensive strategy against Russia’s monthlong and largely stalled invasion: psychological warfare aimed at degrading the enemy’s already low morale.
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