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Russia’s ‘Brave’ War Architects Blame Dead Recruits for Fatal Mistakes
Turns out using inexperienced civilians to wage war isn’t such a good idea after all
A leading general and one of Putin’s architects for the war of genocide in Ukraine, Gen. Lt. Sergei Sevryukov, had enough pitying the Russian soldiers blown up at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s. Instead, he offered more sobering words: It was their own damn fault they got killed.
Moscow reported that 89 of their newly mobilized soldiers from the Samara region were killed in a New Year’s Eve missile attack on the barracks. The Ukrainian army says it could be anywhere around 500. The number is probably somewhere in between.
It is an astounding, but sadly typical response from the Russian officer. Blaming the dead troops, men and boys who just weeks before were civilians with little or no skills in the art of soldiering, for their deaths is nothing short of mockery.
Sevryukov is probably right. The use of mobile phones was so concentrated in one spot that the Ukrainians looking for a target couldn’t resist the likelihood that they had stumbled upon a barracks.
The HIMARS missiles struck the barracks and then thanks to the criminally inept decision to place an ammo dump right next to…
