The pencils of Russian commanders 😅 #RussianArmy [General/Chat]

Mariia Kramarenko ^ | October 5, 2022 | Mariia Kramarenko

[Widget Jr]

The pencils of Russian commanders 😅 #RussianArmy

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You'll figure it out.

[Widget Jr]

Hat tip to Jake Broe, Russian Soldiers Keep Surrendering for Cash and Socks

The Russian commander is making plans using a child's Avengers collectors 12 colored pencil set, likely looted from a child's bedroom.

An army that would not maintain the tires of 100 million Ruble Pantsir 2 SAM vehicles before the war, is stealing pencils and drawing templates from a child's toybox to make plans.

(Before anyone repeats what Scott Ritter has said about the 300,000 moblized Russian soldiers, the Russian reserve systems is nothing like the US Army Reserves. Russian reserves do not server two weekends a month and two weeks a year. The have no required training after their contract is up, and Russia has a hard limit of 200,000 soldiers it can operate in Ukraine no matter how many are called up.)

Comments, criticsms, angry wailing and gnashing of teeth welcome.

[pierrem15]

Paper maps, and probably old Soviet-era maps at that.

Ukrainians are now using digital displays updated in real-time.

[Kazan]

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxqqFDO6l3HwvcR8Pmvu_Ax5GD5dsdd5iP

In Ukrainian channels, information about the state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine appeared. They refer to the data of the General Staff.

Here is what the military-political leadership of Ukraine hides:

- the staffing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine remains at the level of 43-48%;
- losses among military personnel - more than 191 thousand killed and wounded;
- statistics on missing persons are not maintained; - medicine is working at its limit, the seriously wounded are taken through Poland for treatment in European countries (Germany, France, Italy);
- an acute shortage of small arms and body armor;
- the resource of some samples of equipment transferred by the allies is ending (the first batches of American M777, M109, new Panzerhaubitse 2000 and MARS II);
- the lack of qualified specialists in the operation of Western weapons, so the equipment is operated by people without a deep understanding of the materiel;
- a problem with consumables, especially hydraulics and liquid nitrogen, necessary for M777 howitzers;
- in the field, an automated fire control system does not last long, fragments and dust are killed quickly enough; there are no opportunities for repairs on the spot, we have to send them to Poland, where there are spare parts and specialists.
In addition, the MPS of Ukrainian military personnel remains at a low level, despite the recent information campaign to distribute “encouraging” materials on social networks and organized concerts.

Such a deplorable state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can only testify to one thing - they do not have long to exist.

[pierrem15]

LOL 191,000 killed. There would be Verdun-like acres of graves.

Perhaps you've got the satellite photos. /s

[ETCM]

Paper maps, and probably old Soviet-era maps at that.

Likely true. There were several tall condo buildings in Kyiv struck by cruise missiles during the first couple months of the war. They were all built in the past 10 years, one of them had just opened. Just a couple blocks away was a defense related manufacturer that never was struck. One assumption is that the maps used to plan the strikes were old. The alternative is that they hit new residential buildings intentionally. Having observed mission planing for TLAM strikes, I can tell you the flight path was very carefully planned. For an urban target, to a ridiculous degree. I used to assume Russia did the same. It seems I was wrong.

[Salohcin]

I’ve noticed you cut and paste the same comments in multiple threads. Don’t you have anything original to say beyond the scripts that are handed to you?

[exinnj]

“Fragments and dust are killed quickly enough”. Hu? Try harder, tovarisch…

[Brellium]

When does your sex tape drop?

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1576961509749850112?s=20&t=k5m-eqAdxOVSedIuJbHP8Q

[Widget Jr]

#6. No he doesn’t. Instead of posting a thread, he posts the same thing into a dozen threads in row repeatedly. This is forum spam, it is disruptive and counterproductive. Kazan and a bunch of the pro-Russia posters were doing this since the war started, and have really escalated this since Ukraine started winning during the Kharkiv counteroffensive (Ukraine was actually turning the war around since the end of June or the start of July, not that many noticed). The best way to handle it is recognize he is here to disrupt, not discuss, scroll past and ignore him.

[NorseViking]

BS. I ve seen one hit by SAM.

[jdsteel]

I have fun engaging with the Putin BoyZ.

But I’m not sure why the moderators haven’t ZOTed them yet.

[Cronos]

Kazan on Feb 20 “ the invasion is a hoax”
Kazan in March, April, may, June, july “Ukraine will surrender in 2 weeks”
Kazan in October “more than 191 thousand killed and wounded;’

[AnonymousConservative]

Wouldn’t the pencils in Ukraine come in nation-specific packaging that didn’t have English on it, but rather was in Ukrainian?

Could this be a photo taken in a Western nation that speaks English, ie propaganda?

[AnonymousConservative]

Plenty of reasons to oppose us sending billions which could go to Americans off to the latest neocon forever war.

[Monterrosa-24]

So When Obama promises Russia greater “flexibility” that is supporting Ukraine? When Obama laughs off Russia as a threat “The 1980s called and want their foreign policy back” ...That is supporting Ukraine? Obama nixes a missile defense system for eastern Europe and that is supporting Ukraine? Hillary sending American Uranium to RUSSIA is supporting Ukraine?

Your graphic is wrong up one side and down the other.

[Widget Jr]

#13. That is a fair question and thank you for asking politely.

I found two posts on Reddit, Link #1 and Link #2. The story is, the pictures were released by the Russian MOD, showing Col. General Lapin in the field. I do not speak or read Russian and official Russian MOD sites are blocked in the US, so I can not independently confirm this.

So if this is correct, that these are official Russian MOD pictures, why the heck does he have a child's pencil set like this?

[AnonymousConservative]

It is a battlefield. Do you think our soldiers would not pick up whatever they needed as they were traveling? My guess is from the new pack they went in a store and took them. If it was Russian area which just voted to go with Russia, and the store was open, he may even have paid, or they might have given them to him.

Even Bald and Bankrupt, who supported Ukraine, said in those Russian regions, they resented Ukraine and supported Russia, and I am sure Russia is doing a hearts and minds thing trying to not piss off the locals, given the area does not look like Grozny.

To be clear, I didn’t think the pencils were a bad thing. That is how war works. He isn’t going to lose a war (ie him and his men die) because he saw pencils and didn’t take them.

I was mainly curious if this was part of some bigger montage for propaganda.

[nikos1121]

I am sure we have our people on the ground there.

[popdonnelly]

Ho Hum.

[MalPearce]

191,000.

Either that’s a number off the back of a Vatnik cigarette packet (they don’t even count their own dead let alone anybody else’s) or the figure comes from estimates by Ukraine who at least make an effort to identify the dead.

Ukraine had over 16 million men before the war, 60 million population.

And the Kremlin pundits on Rossiya1 talked about needing to kill 3-15% of ‘em to take Ukraine maintain an occupation. So, Uke fightback is a long way off a body count to match the best case scenario given out by the Kremlin analysts.

Ivan told the ukes that even a day one capitulation would’ve cost them 1.8 million lives so gloating that at finally exceeding 10% of the target after that number after seven months is a bit like gloating over a profit warning.

The Ukes will see that number and think, yup, fighting back against the orcs has cost them 10% of ehat it would’ve cost to surrender.

Piss poor scripting in St Petersburg, reflecting retarded braggadocio in Moscow.

Kazan, tovarisch. Have a word with your handler. This time next week you’ll be on here trying to argue the tactical brilliance of stealing Avengers pencils for scribbling on dated maps.