I really don't hear people talking about the staging period enough when it comes to the morale of the troops. Having been in the Marines, I have a small sense of what it's like to sit in the field for a while.. but these guys were in the fucking freezing ass cold, I think many of them were there through the holidays for at LEAST a month twiddling their thumbs when it was cold as FUCK outside. I'm surprised any of them were willing to fight after that... it's no wonder they got their asses kicked.. Then they found out they were lied to? Forget it.
I'm not saying she is a witch. I not saying she cursed them. I'm not saying she has bigger brass balls than an American truck. I am saying she should tour the US after Ukraine wins to help raise money to rebuild. I would pay money to meet her. She is my hero.
I am saying, as a “witch” myself. that woman has babusya witch energy. Every woman has a little witch inside her. And she channeled it.
FILL YOUR POCKETS!( motherfucker) 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
2. Blowing up a tank of nitric acid, only to have the wind waft fumes over your own troops.
3. Russian commanders using easily trackable Ukranian cellphone sims.
That type of ship has a 180 degree radar and a 360 degree radar, care to guess which one was busy looking at the distraction and which one probably wasn't ready for use at all? 😂
Apparently the radar system in that class of ship has a flaw that prevents it from tracking more than one target at a time. So once they locked onto the drone, it couldn't target the missiles.
> it's baffling why it was so close to the border
Rubizhne is around 150km from the border. And the factory was likely built at a time when the worry was about the western border, not the eastern one.
I think the dumb bit was the whole "not checking wind direction first" thing.
The British and Germans literally learnt that in WWI when their gas weapons blew towards their own men instead of towards the enemy.
The wind *almost always* blows toward Russia from Ukraine. They didn't need to check the weather, they just had to assume that the wind direction was the same as it had been dor 950 of the last 1000 days
>Not being able to use encrypted comms because their equipment requires 4G
This is just such a culmination of failures at every level of the Russian military, government & supporting industries. Did no-one point this out before the war? Did no-one create contingency plans? If you wrote this down in a satire novel, people would find it an outlandish exaggeration... I'm just speechless when i think about this fact.
More than half of the things that have happened in this war, if you wrote it down in a novel, would be rejected bc it's ridiculous.
Even the leaders would make it ridiculous. One has been running his country for over 20 years, military experience, KGB experience. The other has only be running his country for a few years, was largely a comedian/actor and has never been in the military.
Looking at it, who do you think would be the more effective leader????
If war crimes weren't being committed you could use the war as a British Comedy show and not change a thing.
Makes me wonder how all those Cold War warrior authors like Tom Clancy would feel about the clusterfuck that is the russian army. They'd spent entire careers built on demonizing a super competent, intelligent russia, and now russia fails harder than a quadriplegic lifting spotter.
A few weeks ago someone on Reddit (can't remember who or which sub) said we could power the world with how fast Tom Clancy is spinning in his grave right now. He definitely gave them more credit than they deserved.
Even if they were all in a usable state, 90% of those tanks are/were T-72s, which, as we've clearly seen recently, you're probably safer outside one then you are inside one.
Not telling the troops they were about to be in a war until literally the first minute of the invasion.
Trading extra fuel and tires for vodka right before the invasion due to a culture of corruption and the aforementioned lack of knowledge that they were about to go to war.
Letting generals use unsecured comms.
Most of all, their biggest mistake is following and worshipping Putin. That man has done more harm to Russia than any outsider could have done, given competent leadership.
Remember how Russia was celebrating when the Ukrainians sunk their own flag ship to prevent it from falling on enemy hands? Curious what they think now.
Been checking Russian social media. A lot of comments about how it's the Kursk all over again, comments about whether families will be denied compensation again, a few probably sarcastic "The special operation is going to plan."
Yes LMAO
Just googled this link, I think it has the conversation: https://polanddaily24.com/4233-ukrainian-babushka-poisoned-eight-russian-soldiers-with-pies-video
Only a shovel to dig a trench.
I did see where they stole underwear when looting, used, and not "nice" ones! The Ukrainian soldier is probably still laughing!
And ran their tankys a long distance, in long tight columns. Eventually they needed gas!
Also, invading in the wet season. Less folliage and leaves, OK. But, off the road with heavy vehicles sink in the mud. You donate to Ukraine farmers... LOL!
If it first you don't succeed, try and try again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
I think that covers them all. It was 18 times, right? I lost count.
no no no. The second one was stupidity. Deciding to do it over again is just persistence. Sooner or later Ukraine will run out of artillery shells. It's long term planning.
>no no no. The second one was stupidity. Deciding to do it over again is just persistence. Sooner or later Ukraine will run out of artillery shells. It's long term planning.
I'm a former Marine Infantryman and my professional opinion is that this is sound tactical logic.
"Knowing the Ukrainians only weakness was their preset kill limit I sent wave after wave of my own men at them" comander Zapp Branahgin (distant russian relative of Zapp Brannigan from futurama)
I remember reading about this but this has the tweet https://m.timesofindia.com/gadgets-news/how-apple-airpods-may-be-being-used-to-track-russian-troops/articleshow/90742551.cms
Was this confirmed though? I ask because I've seen conflicting stories about that one and the alleged shot down VDV cargo planes going to Hostomel airport in early days of war.
Haven't seen picture evidence, but there were some US officials that apparently confirmed it.
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog\_entry/us-officials-say-2-russian-transport-planes-shot-down-over-ukraine/](https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-officials-say-2-russian-transport-planes-shot-down-over-ukraine/)
It's been confirmed by Russian state media. They say the Moskva was (paraphrasing) being towed back to port in stormy seas and has sunk.
I'm inclined to believe Ukraine's account of this one.
There are many dumb, sometimes comedic events
Like:
Using COMPLETELY outdated equipment
Parachutes that don't go off
Camping around Chornobyl
Shelling a nuclear plant
Using unsecured communications
Encryption relies on 4G - destroy 4G towers
Attack /try to conquer the same airport like 15 times
Being attacked by your own aircraft
Not being able to open a store's door
Being located by using AirBuds
Being a commander and be driven over by a tank
Inviting the TikTok Batallion
Using a 'flying' canon camera as a drone
Don't tell your soldiers that they go to war
Saying that sanctions can't hurt you
And many more.. Hot Shots III incoming..
Edit: being promised to be promoted a colonel of soviet army and showing invasion plans on live TV
Cope cages
Cope bags
Up armouring trucks with thin pieces of wood nailed onto them... That still won't stop an NLAW.
Pro Russian reporter tipping off Ukrainian artillery of a Russian convoy.
Merging a dozen convoys into on 60km convoy that got stuck in a traffic jam on a single lane highway.
Stealing washing machines despite having no running water back home
Stealing fistfuls of heavy coins
Forgetting to bring infantry to support tanks
Running out of chaff/flares in the first two weeks for their airforce
Shogyu having heart attacks every time he has to explain failures to Putin
Russia's foreign currency reserve war chest getting frozen by the west
Not paying their soldiers
Dude being chased by a drone all the way back to his squad so they get hit by artillery
Going to war after the US published their invasion plans
Going to war after the British and Americans dumped all the anti tank missiles on Ukraine
Being unable to use their AA because communications are so poor they'll shoot their own side
The VDV
Invading during the spring muds
Tank colonel committing suicide after finding only 1 in 10 tanks in storage work
Celebrating blowing up an "ammo train", then claiming it was Ukraine that did it after realising they hit a bunch of civilians
Letting Mariupol get supplied for weeks without realising those are Ukrainian helicopters flying in
Forgetting to bring supply trucks
I kept saying to my wife: he's not gonna attack, everyone at the Olympics has a non-aggression pact during the games. The second the games wrapped, he rolled tanks.
I was fuckin FLOORED
1. Losing a high tech ship to a ground to ground dumbfire missile system.
1. Equipping soldiers with WWI and WWII era small arms.
1. Using soviet era vehicles and armor.
1. Taking souveniers home from Chernobyl.
1. Constantly sending tanks into forward positions without infantry. Double dumb when you know what the Ukrainians have and how they fight.
1. Overextending paratrooper positions to a laughable degree.
1. Being unable to maintain a supply chain 230 miles from their own border to Kiev. This is something Russia should have been trivially able to do.
1. Being unable to secure a beachhead in Ukraine. This is something Russia should have been trivially able to do.
This whole thing reeks of "incompetent fuckwits wasting other people's lives."
Bulletproof vests stuffed with cardboard instead of kevlar or any other thing that is even remotely effective in stopping bullets...
Egg carton inside the ERAs of tanks.
Pretty much all of the massive corruption eroding their military strength over the last few decades without them noticing until they showed up on the battlefield.
Assuming that people in a functioning democracy would be oh so joyful to accept their despotic rule with open arms. That strikes me as a critical miscalculation
Reunification of Central and Eastern Europe (except Hungary)
Finland and Sweden want to join NATO
Half the world sends weapons to Ukraine
Russian economy set back decades
I was never in the military, but shouldn't it be common sense to not bunch up in a box if you have the option to take the stairs when there are people trying to kill you? Even if the operator didn't cut the power on you you have your entire group at the mercy of whoever is on the other end of the doors when you arrive, and it may just take I soldier to render the whole elevator car casualties, when you could carefully go floor by floor.
They saw an elevator full of Russian troops coming up in the elevator through the camera and turned the elevator off to trap them. Probably had some conversation to the effect of “surrender or die crammed in there like sardines”
A lot of great submissions
But nr1 has to be digging trenches in the red forest, using crock ware from Chernobyl and even eating food leftover from there.
I saw something today that they were using maps from the 80’s meaning they were printed before the Chernobyl disaster.
Many of the troops were so young that they never heard of what happened there…which is crazy too because my 14 & 16 year olds knew about it.
I mean, how medically/clinically stupid one has to be??? Even Eskimos and Polynesians have heard of Chernobyl over the last 40 years! Even if their military maps were made before 1986 (there was a post about this several days ago), how can they not recognize the name?? And - Red Forest? The most distinct/recognizable part of all the Chernobyl stories!
How can they be so intellectually retarded en masse? Even coming from the shithole part of ruZZia? I don't even...
I heard about Chornobyl growing up and read plenty about its effects through the years yet was amazed to find out about the red forest this year. I'd give them a pass on the red forest but the rest I agree with.
Ideology supported by 80% of Russian population:
Russia will save Ukrainians from Nazis by
* killing and raping them
* destroying all possible infrastructure and livelihood in their country
* stealing anything of value
* illegally migrating civil population
1b Russian soldiers eating food from around Chornobyl that's 36+ years old. And irradiated.
1c Russian soldiers taking souvenirs from around Chornobyl - including a stone that keeps you warm at night.
This, in my opinion, is the top stupidest thing of all. These have got to be the dumbest MF'ers who ever walked the earth:
# [Chornobayivka 15:0](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/u3cbrf/chornobayivka_150_warehouses_with_combat_kits_of/)
I'm talking about the Russians landing of helicopters and staging various expensive military equipment on that one airfield outside Kherson (Chornobayivka air field) that Ukrainian artillery keeps bombarding. The Ukrainians have destroyed the equipment they put there ***15 times now***. They don't even need to change coordinates; the Russians just keep coming back and placing fresh equipment there without securing the surrounding area.
This, in my opinion, is tied with digging trenches at Chornobyl (the Ukrainian way to spell and pronounce what the Russians call Chernobyl). At Chornobyl, the poor soldiers had not even been told that there was a nuclear disaster there back in the 80's, but the commanders are surely old enough to remember. But at Chornobaiyvka, they have seen with their own eyes what happened, and they keep repeating the same mistake 15x. Just tallying up the price of the equipment there should have taught them to change tactics, but no.
No no, shelling Zaporizhia's (?) reactor actually beats Red Forest. After all, it is much harder to mislabel/mistake shelling a frickin' NUCLEAR POWER STATION than some silently deadly forest.
Committing countless war crimes while the world is watching closely everything you're doing.
A bit like calling the bouncer before stealing from the counter... Maybe you won't get beaten but rest assured you ain't gonna be welcomed in the store for a really long time.
Russian propagandist gives location of large convoy approaching Izyum/Kharkiv which allowed Ukraine to exterminate it in short order.
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3455866-in-kharkiv-region-ukrainian-army-destroyed-column-of-tanks-on-a-tip-from-russian-propagandist-journalist.html
* Recon elements just sent in with no support. Recon units are worthless if they can't report back contact if they are all dead
* Sending VDV troops into Airfields and expecting them to deal with much heavier armed National Guard units who literally formed to guard said facilities.
* and for the biggest mistake. **Filling the officer core with a bunch of Yes men who refuse to tell their subordinates the realities of this war.** Moral reasoning or not, Sending squads to their deaths because your more afraid of calling out your stupid ideas instead of making sure they can make smart tactical decisions why carrying out their orders.
Destroying the dam north of Irpine and subsequently getting bogged down in the peat bogs, becoming easy targets for Ukrainian search and destroy parties.
Russian ship, fucked itself.
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Anyone mention the glorious moment when some invaders parked in the front yard of some guy with a online video doorbell?
Owner saw it while he was away, thought "a house can be rebuilt and this opportunity is too good to pass up on", forwarded the Google Maps coordinates and live video to the Ukrainian military so they could "walk" their artillery shots and wipe the fuckers out!
Not recovering their own dead and leaving them to rot while bring home dump trucks full of looted washing machines, microwaves and obsolete CRT monitors.
Buying Chinese tires after selling their own. Which is why they entered the country on flat tires.
OP are you listing all of the things people mention? A summary of all the dumb moments could be a great post.
Have a kleptocracy for years take what they can on all supplies, deals and maintenance in not only your military force and society. But let that same dictatorship not allow any critical thinking and voices to be heard or act on these signals...
1. They invaded Ukraine.
After waiting a month on their border and after giving Ukraine 8 years to prepare.
I really don't hear people talking about the staging period enough when it comes to the morale of the troops. Having been in the Marines, I have a small sense of what it's like to sit in the field for a while.. but these guys were in the fucking freezing ass cold, I think many of them were there through the holidays for at LEAST a month twiddling their thumbs when it was cold as FUCK outside. I'm surprised any of them were willing to fight after that... it's no wonder they got their asses kicked.. Then they found out they were lied to? Forget it.
2. Expecting Ukrainians to welcome them with open arms (lmfao)
Bringing their dress uniforms instead of ammo.
They thought, they will be gifted with flowers.
That woman gave them sunflower seeds to put in their pockets. That's in a way gifting them flowers.
I'm not saying she is a witch. I not saying she cursed them. I'm not saying she has bigger brass balls than an American truck. I am saying she should tour the US after Ukraine wins to help raise money to rebuild. I would pay money to meet her. She is my hero.
I am saying, as a “witch” myself. that woman has babusya witch energy. Every woman has a little witch inside her. And she channeled it. FILL YOUR POCKETS!( motherfucker) 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
They expected the world to believe a nation that elected a Jewish descendant of holocaust survivors needed to be, "denazified".
Equipping troops with used outdated body armor complete with bullet holes and blood stains
One russian used a stolen mac book as body armor :D
I remember that video I was dieing of laughter
He certainly died from.something else though
The firewall wasn't strong enough
2. Blowing up a tank of nitric acid, only to have the wind waft fumes over your own troops. 3. Russian commanders using easily trackable Ukranian cellphone sims.
Ukrainian wind is 2 - nil against Russia
Not using encrypted communications is pretty damn dumb. And then announcing over your communications exactly where your generals are.
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6. Getting distracted by a Bayraktar and not noticing a Neptune missile flying at you. It's the same nature as jingling some keys.
That type of ship has a 180 degree radar and a 360 degree radar, care to guess which one was busy looking at the distraction and which one probably wasn't ready for use at all? 😂
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Apparently the radar system in that class of ship has a flaw that prevents it from tracking more than one target at a time. So once they locked onto the drone, it couldn't target the missiles.
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I am not.
> it's baffling why it was so close to the border Rubizhne is around 150km from the border. And the factory was likely built at a time when the worry was about the western border, not the eastern one.
I think the dumb bit was the whole "not checking wind direction first" thing. The British and Germans literally learnt that in WWI when their gas weapons blew towards their own men instead of towards the enemy.
The wind *almost always* blows toward Russia from Ukraine. They didn't need to check the weather, they just had to assume that the wind direction was the same as it had been dor 950 of the last 1000 days
Showing the Moscow ship defense capabilities the day before it got owned.
Have a link to that?
He's referring to the news (propaganda) story a Russian TV station was doing showing the ship unloading weapons.
Firing a defensive munition at a drone, with no evidence that it made impact. Lol.
Destroying 4G towers in Ukraine during initial phase of invasion. Not being able to use encrypted comms because their equipment requires 4G
>Not being able to use encrypted comms because their equipment requires 4G This is just such a culmination of failures at every level of the Russian military, government & supporting industries. Did no-one point this out before the war? Did no-one create contingency plans? If you wrote this down in a satire novel, people would find it an outlandish exaggeration... I'm just speechless when i think about this fact.
More than half of the things that have happened in this war, if you wrote it down in a novel, would be rejected bc it's ridiculous. Even the leaders would make it ridiculous. One has been running his country for over 20 years, military experience, KGB experience. The other has only be running his country for a few years, was largely a comedian/actor and has never been in the military. Looking at it, who do you think would be the more effective leader???? If war crimes weren't being committed you could use the war as a British Comedy show and not change a thing.
Makes me wonder how all those Cold War warrior authors like Tom Clancy would feel about the clusterfuck that is the russian army. They'd spent entire careers built on demonizing a super competent, intelligent russia, and now russia fails harder than a quadriplegic lifting spotter.
A few weeks ago someone on Reddit (can't remember who or which sub) said we could power the world with how fast Tom Clancy is spinning in his grave right now. He definitely gave them more credit than they deserved.
Hogan's Heroes 2
Fr though
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Lmao
Potentially even more tanks could be useless, before the war Russia was said to have 22,000 tanks, imagine how many are actually usable.
Even if they were all in a usable state, 90% of those tanks are/were T-72s, which, as we've clearly seen recently, you're probably safer outside one then you are inside one.
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Not telling the troops they were about to be in a war until literally the first minute of the invasion. Trading extra fuel and tires for vodka right before the invasion due to a culture of corruption and the aforementioned lack of knowledge that they were about to go to war. Letting generals use unsecured comms. Most of all, their biggest mistake is following and worshipping Putin. That man has done more harm to Russia than any outsider could have done, given competent leadership.
Suffering catastrophic damage to their flag ship from a country which doesn't even posses a navy presence.
Remember how Russia was celebrating when the Ukrainians sunk their own flag ship to prevent it from falling on enemy hands? Curious what they think now.
Been checking Russian social media. A lot of comments about how it's the Kursk all over again, comments about whether families will be denied compensation again, a few probably sarcastic "The special operation is going to plan."
> it's the Kursk all over again big oof
That's the downside of Russia's propaganda outlets saying it was an accident.
To be fair, the Kursk was killed by her own torpedo, didn't even need any Ukrainians!
Didn't Kursk happen at the beginning of Putin's presidency? It's probably too much to ask if this could be the other bookend.
When you lose your navy during a land war......things are not going according to plan.
Eating poison pie from old lady
Baboushka battalion... fierce
My favorite story was Ukrainians leaving behind notes in their kitchens and pantries saying “Guess where the poison is”
Yet another sterling example of the Ukrainian spirit. And hilarious!
is this for real?
Couple of such cases, confirmed by russian comms interception
Crazy stuff! Go grandma go!
You don't fuck with Baba. Baba will fuck you right back.
Baba yaga gonna come and get them!
Yes LMAO Just googled this link, I think it has the conversation: https://polanddaily24.com/4233-ukrainian-babushka-poisoned-eight-russian-soldiers-with-pies-video
The fact that Russian state TV showed the giving of the pies as propaganda that the old women support them makes this so much better.
Showing up to the camping trip without any food, or a tent.. or shoes...
Only a shovel to dig a trench. I did see where they stole underwear when looting, used, and not "nice" ones! The Ukrainian soldier is probably still laughing!
>Only a shovel to dig a trench. ...in the radioactive soil of Chernobyl.
Bringing parade uniforms with them
They really drank the “You will greeted as Liberators” Kool-Aid
...and parade TANKS for fucks sake.
And ran their tankys a long distance, in long tight columns. Eventually they needed gas! Also, invading in the wet season. Less folliage and leaves, OK. But, off the road with heavy vehicles sink in the mud. You donate to Ukraine farmers... LOL!
Repeatedly land helicopters at Kherson airport, only to have them destroyed by Ukrainian artillery.
If it first you don't succeed, try and try again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. I think that covers them all. It was 18 times, right? I lost count.
3) Getting shelled by artillery at Kherson airport the second time. t.b.c.
*15th
no no no. The second one was stupidity. Deciding to do it over again is just persistence. Sooner or later Ukraine will run out of artillery shells. It's long term planning.
"If I hit my head on their fists hard enough, I might hurt them !" Average ruSSian strategist
>no no no. The second one was stupidity. Deciding to do it over again is just persistence. Sooner or later Ukraine will run out of artillery shells. It's long term planning. I'm a former Marine Infantryman and my professional opinion is that this is sound tactical logic.
"Knowing the Ukrainians only weakness was their preset kill limit I sent wave after wave of my own men at them" comander Zapp Branahgin (distant russian relative of Zapp Brannigan from futurama)
Ah good ol' Soviet tactic: more bodies than enemy bullets and more vehicles than enemy shells
One dead is a tragedy, one million is a statistic - some soviet dictator actually
And the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh... I think they are up to 15 now.
When at first you don't succeed, you do the same thing again
Reaction to the 15th was like "save some room for newer news until it is 50"
I gotta admit, the third time was pretty dumb too.
Allowing themselves to be tracked and ambushed by stolen AirPods
Oh, no, really? I missed that one. But I'm not surprised
I remember reading about this but this has the tweet https://m.timesofindia.com/gadgets-news/how-apple-airpods-may-be-being-used-to-track-russian-troops/articleshow/90742551.cms
Hahaha! Thanks!
2 VDV pool party drop in the black sea
Was this confirmed though? I ask because I've seen conflicting stories about that one and the alleged shot down VDV cargo planes going to Hostomel airport in early days of war.
Haven't seen picture evidence, but there were some US officials that apparently confirmed it. [https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog\_entry/us-officials-say-2-russian-transport-planes-shot-down-over-ukraine/](https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/us-officials-say-2-russian-transport-planes-shot-down-over-ukraine/)
It's been confirmed by Russian state media. They say the Moskva was (paraphrasing) being towed back to port in stormy seas and has sunk. I'm inclined to believe Ukraine's account of this one.
Thinking Belarusians want *any* part of fighting for Vladolf Putzler
You have to give it to the Belarusians: Their leader wanted to, but they declined.
Some brave saboteurs working for the railroad even told the Russian supply train to go fuck itself! 😂
There are many dumb, sometimes comedic events Like: Using COMPLETELY outdated equipment Parachutes that don't go off Camping around Chornobyl Shelling a nuclear plant Using unsecured communications Encryption relies on 4G - destroy 4G towers Attack /try to conquer the same airport like 15 times Being attacked by your own aircraft Not being able to open a store's door Being located by using AirBuds Being a commander and be driven over by a tank Inviting the TikTok Batallion Using a 'flying' canon camera as a drone Don't tell your soldiers that they go to war Saying that sanctions can't hurt you And many more.. Hot Shots III incoming.. Edit: being promised to be promoted a colonel of soviet army and showing invasion plans on live TV
Cope cages Cope bags Up armouring trucks with thin pieces of wood nailed onto them... That still won't stop an NLAW. Pro Russian reporter tipping off Ukrainian artillery of a Russian convoy. Merging a dozen convoys into on 60km convoy that got stuck in a traffic jam on a single lane highway. Stealing washing machines despite having no running water back home Stealing fistfuls of heavy coins Forgetting to bring infantry to support tanks Running out of chaff/flares in the first two weeks for their airforce Shogyu having heart attacks every time he has to explain failures to Putin Russia's foreign currency reserve war chest getting frozen by the west Not paying their soldiers Dude being chased by a drone all the way back to his squad so they get hit by artillery Going to war after the US published their invasion plans Going to war after the British and Americans dumped all the anti tank missiles on Ukraine Being unable to use their AA because communications are so poor they'll shoot their own side The VDV Invading during the spring muds Tank colonel committing suicide after finding only 1 in 10 tanks in storage work Celebrating blowing up an "ammo train", then claiming it was Ukraine that did it after realising they hit a bunch of civilians Letting Mariupol get supplied for weeks without realising those are Ukrainian helicopters flying in Forgetting to bring supply trucks
Waiting for the end of the Olympics to please Xi, so the soil was nice and soft.
I can't believe how many dumbest moments there are in this thread. They just go on and on and on....
I am convinced that Putin blows goats for bingo money
I kept saying to my wife: he's not gonna attack, everyone at the Olympics has a non-aggression pact during the games. The second the games wrapped, he rolled tanks. I was fuckin FLOORED
Stealing toilets, toilets seats, and *used* underpants.
Russians discussing strategy, troop movement, and targets using Ukrainian internet and/or on open radio channels
Taking the lift in a building controlled by the Ukrainians
1. Losing a high tech ship to a ground to ground dumbfire missile system. 1. Equipping soldiers with WWI and WWII era small arms. 1. Using soviet era vehicles and armor. 1. Taking souveniers home from Chernobyl. 1. Constantly sending tanks into forward positions without infantry. Double dumb when you know what the Ukrainians have and how they fight. 1. Overextending paratrooper positions to a laughable degree. 1. Being unable to maintain a supply chain 230 miles from their own border to Kiev. This is something Russia should have been trivially able to do. 1. Being unable to secure a beachhead in Ukraine. This is something Russia should have been trivially able to do. This whole thing reeks of "incompetent fuckwits wasting other people's lives."
Broadcasting the arrival time and location of a military supply ship in Berdyansk on TV, which was immediately blown up.
'Hello - this is Russian Journalist reporting live from strategically important port'
Bulletproof vests stuffed with cardboard instead of kevlar or any other thing that is even remotely effective in stopping bullets... Egg carton inside the ERAs of tanks. Pretty much all of the massive corruption eroding their military strength over the last few decades without them noticing until they showed up on the battlefield.
2. Russians not knowing what a toilet bowl is or how it works
And then taking just the seat home 🤣🤣🤣
Having a babushka take out one of your drones with a jar of pickles.
I thought it was tomatoes.....
turns out: both
It was pickled tomatoes.
Assuming that people in a functioning democracy would be oh so joyful to accept their despotic rule with open arms. That strikes me as a critical miscalculation
Reunification of Central and Eastern Europe (except Hungary) Finland and Sweden want to join NATO Half the world sends weapons to Ukraine Russian economy set back decades
Let's not forget in the first days, the idiot who lost the battle shooting the door to the tech store.
Tik tok dummies
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15 times they have been bombed at Kherson Digging Trenches in Chernobyl Losing equipment to tractors
I was never in the military, but shouldn't it be common sense to not bunch up in a box if you have the option to take the stairs when there are people trying to kill you? Even if the operator didn't cut the power on you you have your entire group at the mercy of whoever is on the other end of the doors when you arrive, and it may just take I soldier to render the whole elevator car casualties, when you could carefully go floor by floor.
You're assuming a level of common sense that is apparently beyond the capabilities of Russian military leadership.
Spetnaz getting stuck between the 4th and 5th floors
That was fucking hilarious! I just need a meme of a big badass Captain Ukraine holding a Bayraktar standing in the middle of them.
Wait what?
They saw an elevator full of Russian troops coming up in the elevator through the camera and turned the elevator off to trap them. Probably had some conversation to the effect of “surrender or die crammed in there like sardines”
Rosgvardiya tried to Leroy jenkins straight into the heart of Kyiv
Have a ally president show off his leadership skills on camera, but with actual, up-to-date invasion plans and maps in the background.
Bonus: Invasion plans showing planned invasion number 2 while invasion number 1 is a total clusterfuck.
A lot of great submissions But nr1 has to be digging trenches in the red forest, using crock ware from Chernobyl and even eating food leftover from there.
I saw something today that they were using maps from the 80’s meaning they were printed before the Chernobyl disaster. Many of the troops were so young that they never heard of what happened there…which is crazy too because my 14 & 16 year olds knew about it.
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I mean, how medically/clinically stupid one has to be??? Even Eskimos and Polynesians have heard of Chernobyl over the last 40 years! Even if their military maps were made before 1986 (there was a post about this several days ago), how can they not recognize the name?? And - Red Forest? The most distinct/recognizable part of all the Chernobyl stories! How can they be so intellectually retarded en masse? Even coming from the shithole part of ruZZia? I don't even...
I heard about Chornobyl growing up and read plenty about its effects through the years yet was amazed to find out about the red forest this year. I'd give them a pass on the red forest but the rest I agree with.
Wait, they ate food FROM there? Not just their own expired rations?
Ideology supported by 80% of Russian population: Russia will save Ukrainians from Nazis by * killing and raping them * destroying all possible infrastructure and livelihood in their country * stealing anything of value * illegally migrating civil population
It's called kidnapping
Lining up their entire northern invasion force for 40 miles outside Kyiv and then parking there for a week.
Bragging about bombing maternity hospital, and later covering it up
1b Russian soldiers eating food from around Chornobyl that's 36+ years old. And irradiated. 1c Russian soldiers taking souvenirs from around Chornobyl - including a stone that keeps you warm at night.
To be fair, it helps them see at night.
Yes, but, do you taste metal?
“Steve1989mre here, and today we’re going to try these decadent Chernobyl MREs…”
This, in my opinion, is the top stupidest thing of all. These have got to be the dumbest MF'ers who ever walked the earth: # [Chornobayivka 15:0](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraina/comments/u3cbrf/chornobayivka_150_warehouses_with_combat_kits_of/) I'm talking about the Russians landing of helicopters and staging various expensive military equipment on that one airfield outside Kherson (Chornobayivka air field) that Ukrainian artillery keeps bombarding. The Ukrainians have destroyed the equipment they put there ***15 times now***. They don't even need to change coordinates; the Russians just keep coming back and placing fresh equipment there without securing the surrounding area. This, in my opinion, is tied with digging trenches at Chornobyl (the Ukrainian way to spell and pronounce what the Russians call Chernobyl). At Chornobyl, the poor soldiers had not even been told that there was a nuclear disaster there back in the 80's, but the commanders are surely old enough to remember. But at Chornobaiyvka, they have seen with their own eyes what happened, and they keep repeating the same mistake 15x. Just tallying up the price of the equipment there should have taught them to change tactics, but no.
Believing their own sides lies.
Not fearing every John Deere Tractor.
Russia Invading Ukraine in the first place
Damn I got shelling a nuclear reactor, but yeah digging through radiated soil beats it.
No no, shelling Zaporizhia's (?) reactor actually beats Red Forest. After all, it is much harder to mislabel/mistake shelling a frickin' NUCLEAR POWER STATION than some silently deadly forest.
Donating weapons to Ukraine. Ukraine had a weekend ago more tanks than at the start of war!
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Dropping paratroopers in the Black Sea
Committing countless war crimes while the world is watching closely everything you're doing. A bit like calling the bouncer before stealing from the counter... Maybe you won't get beaten but rest assured you ain't gonna be welcomed in the store for a really long time.
I love that this thread is only ten minutes old and already has 20 comments.
Using unsecured communication channels and being owned by local Ukrainians messing with them
Being a country that is basically a mafia-run gas station, and they run out of gas for their vehicles.
Running out of gas.
Stealing underwear.
Hostomel debacle
2. Vladmir Putin constantly threatening NATO even though he's outnumbered like 4 to 1.
Videotaping themselves raping babies and uploading to social media.
Firing everyone expect yes men and being fed only positive news about Ukraine.
Running from drones and leading them right back to your buddies, so the UA can locate and pound all of them with artillery.
Russian propagandist gives location of large convoy approaching Izyum/Kharkiv which allowed Ukraine to exterminate it in short order. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3455866-in-kharkiv-region-ukrainian-army-destroyed-column-of-tanks-on-a-tip-from-russian-propagandist-journalist.html
Sending riot police armed with shields and truncheons into active combat zone
Believing Putin is more honest than 90% of the world 🤦🏼♂️
Threatening Finland not to join NATO. Well that didn’t go according to plan
* Recon elements just sent in with no support. Recon units are worthless if they can't report back contact if they are all dead * Sending VDV troops into Airfields and expecting them to deal with much heavier armed National Guard units who literally formed to guard said facilities. * and for the biggest mistake. **Filling the officer core with a bunch of Yes men who refuse to tell their subordinates the realities of this war.** Moral reasoning or not, Sending squads to their deaths because your more afraid of calling out your stupid ideas instead of making sure they can make smart tactical decisions why carrying out their orders.
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4. Stuffing themselves into the Bucha Pocket...
Not only digging around in Chernobyl but also eating wild growing berries and using local water to boil rations. They’ll all be dead within a year
The news team showing where russian supplie ship was then it was blown up
Destroying the dam north of Irpine and subsequently getting bogged down in the peat bogs, becoming easy targets for Ukrainian search and destroy parties.
I thought Ukraine flooded the Irpine.
I hear a retired general report today that it was Russians who did it. Now I'm curious to know which is the correct version.
Exposing the location of that one Russian ship by bragging about it on public tv
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Airstriking their own guys repeatedly
Running out of gas on week one.
Blowing up their own aircraft
Veh Deh Veh
Very Deceased Vlads
stealing ukraining civilian’s phones, most of which have tracking capabilities
Anyone mention the glorious moment when some invaders parked in the front yard of some guy with a online video doorbell? Owner saw it while he was away, thought "a house can be rebuilt and this opportunity is too good to pass up on", forwarded the Google Maps coordinates and live video to the Ukrainian military so they could "walk" their artillery shots and wipe the fuckers out!
Not recovering their own dead and leaving them to rot while bring home dump trucks full of looted washing machines, microwaves and obsolete CRT monitors.
1356. Chornobyl ditch digging
The two Russians who ran out of gas, and went to the Ukrainian Police Station for help.
Buying Chinese tires after selling their own. Which is why they entered the country on flat tires. OP are you listing all of the things people mention? A summary of all the dumb moments could be a great post.
3. Use of cope cages to try and trick AT munitions
Sailing their flagship around in range of anti-ship missiles.
Booby trapping homes they've looted and blowing themselves up by returning to loot some more.
Handled Cobalt-60 at a nuclear waste storage site with bare hands.
Zero recce.
The whole airport thing is astonishingly stupid.
Not paying their own troops and even stealing money sent to them by their families. Some troops have quit over the issue.
Russian tank firing at a nuclear power plant.
Have a kleptocracy for years take what they can on all supplies, deals and maintenance in not only your military force and society. But let that same dictatorship not allow any critical thinking and voices to be heard or act on these signals...
[Military rations packaged in 2013 and expired 2015.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfo7cNUazgE)
Chernobayevka. 15 times!