Putin should have known that a country with a poor economy and an undisciplined army could not win a war.
While Russian men kill, rape and rob in Ukraine, their families enjoy “military booty”. Take, for example, Olga Bykovska, a mother who lives in Feodosia in the occupied Crimea. The Security Service of Ukraine recently published a recording of this woman's telephone conversation with her husband, Roman Bykovsky.
“Come on, rape Ukrainian women there and don't tell me. Understand? The main thing is to wear protection, “she said.
The couple arrived in the occupied Crimea from the Orel region of Russia. Bykovsky fought against Ukraine in the Khersk region, writes Alexander Motil, a professor of political science at Rutgers University, on The Hill. He also recalls the announcement of another Russian woman who tried to sell a drill for 2,400 rubles, which her husband brought “from a special operation in Ukraine.” Another man in Russia in a telephone conversation ordered his son, who attacked Kharkiv, to dismantle the Mercedes of Ukrainians, because “the details are expensive for them.” Such cases are not uncommon. Russian soldiers send home piles of loot in Ukraine. According to a map drawn up by Ukrainian IT specialists, Russian soldiers distributed the stolen items evenly throughout Russia except Moscow and St. Petersburg. Many times more parcels were sent there.
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There were even looters-record holders. Yevhen Kovalenko sent home 450 kilograms of stolen goods. Artyom Lazarev sent 255 kilograms of loot, and Pavel Nikolaev – 204 kilograms. The least stolen and sent to his family in Russia was a soldier named Igor Kuzmin – only 50 kilograms stolen.
“Poor Igor, he must have had a bad day. One can only imagine how his wife will quarrel with him if he returns home, “Motil jokes.
Russian soldiers steal power tools, TVs, tablets, chairs, air conditioners, clothes and even fishing equipment. Some Russians have seen for the first time that the toilet is in the house, not in the yard. We can assume that they did not steal plumbing, because installing it at home would be too much of a technical challenge. Meanwhile, rumors began to spread that service in the Russian army could bring rapid enrichment. One of the military officers in the Rostov region complained that the new conscripts were mostly “drug addicts, grandparents and male prostitutes.” After hearing about looting from other soldiers, they are waiting for the moment when they will be able to plunder and do not want to learn military service.
Looting has become a systematic problem or, more precisely, a systematic opportunity. Russian officers know exactly what is happening. However, most likely, they give the soldiers the “green light” for crimes. After all, if you can kill and rape with impunity, why not rob? Such medieval approaches to war lead to several conclusions.
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First, the state of the Russian Armed Forces is much worse than one might imagine. The army, considered the “second” in the world, is behaving like a gang of robbers from the Wild West.
underdeveloped Third World countries. Russia is, in fact, Burkina Faso with a bomb, apologize to the people of the West African country for such an unpleasant comparison, “Motil wrote.
Third, the Russians know very well what their soldiers are doing in Ukraine. And when the time comes for retribution, they will not be able to pretend their innocence, claiming that they knew nothing. Finally, the final conclusion is that a country with an undisciplined army and a poor economy is unable to win the war. Vladimir Putin should know this. And this suggests that he is not such a skilled leader. He is not a grandmaster. Putin is still learning to play checkers, which he appears to have bought at a marauder market in Belarus.
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