A senior Ukrainian defense official told Business Insider that Russian infiltration tactics have been successful in bad weather.
  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    8 months ago

    oh please please is the west going to re-re-heat the putrid stale canned meal of “the russians won because of the russian winter”? the only ethnic season.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
      5·
      8 months ago

      Remember when all the pro-Ukraine people were saying that the Russian army is totally unprepared for winter and they would all freeze to death, unlike the Ukrainians who are used to fighting in the winter? That was a serious narrative some people were actually spreading.

      They were even writing articles like: Russian Soldiers Are Freezing To Death In Eastern Ukraine

      Even in 2024 they were still trotting out narratives about how, unlike the Ukrainians, the Russian soldiers have no winter gear.