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2023-02-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

'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

[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 2023-02-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#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|| 2023-02-14 06:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-02-14 08:36|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2023-02-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

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