Countering the massive Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia front yesterday. https://t.co/A02QBZcoFa pic.twitter.com/2dOEUW5P9A
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 21, 2025
Russian ops are always so incredibly disorganized. What is even going on there? Yes, yes, it’s hard when you’re under fire. But those people simply do not know what the fuck they are doing. They are wasting so much for so little. And doing it all so very badly.
A Ukraine war account on twitter explained some of this a few weeks or months ago. I think it was: https://x.com/ChrisO_wiki
tldr: If you train soldiers then some inevitably will get hurt/killed during training (this is russia…) and this is a red tape nightmare for commanders and a blemish on their record etc
OTOH sending them into battle completely untrained to get killed is simply accepted and no troublesome paperwork to do or questions to answer.
The more you know about russia the less surprising/shocking that explanation is.
Russia takes “perverse incentives” to an entirely different level. The stories I heard from Kazakhstani and Uzbekistani soldiers who had previously been in the Soviet Union army were pretty eye-opening when I was there in 1997.