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'This isn't Russian roulette, it's like the suicide of lemmings': Putin's marine brigade of 5,000 men is all but destroyed in one of the most brutal battles since the start of the war, writes IAN BIRRELL
2023-02-14
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Ukrainian officials claim huge numbers of enemy troops have been killed

  • Carnage led Russian hardliners to call for public show trials to punish generals

The carnage – and loss of at least 130 armoured vehicles – led Russian hardliners to call for public show trials to punish incompetent generals responsible for the repeated battlefield massacres of their soldiers.

‘Some of them are complete cretins – all the mistakes that were made before were repeated,’ said Igor Girkin, a Russian former intelligence officer who helped stage the pro-Moscow 2014 insurgencies in Donetsk and Crimea. Girkin complained that Russian soldiers were mown down ‘like turkeys in a shooting range’ as Ukrainians held higher positions.
Posted by:Skidmark

#3  I guessed the filtering of comments was mainly about spammers. And I appreciate all the "manual" filtering that the mods do. They are the secret sauce here.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-14 08:38  

#2  M: articles are manually filtered, as it were, before publication, and don’t seem attractive to spammers.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-02-14 08:36  

#1  I thought that "Russian gaming" phrase in the headline was a comment filter item. So headlines aren't filtered?
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-02-14 06:54  

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