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created by WorldNewsMods on 07/03/2022 at 23:38 UTC
2254 upvotes, 248 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by WorldNewsMods at 08/03/2022 at 04:38 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Comment by AggravatedCold at 07/03/2022 at 23:41 UTC
820 upvotes, 4 direct replies
Holy shit.
Killing Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov is pretty fucking massive.
This is the guy responsible for the entire Kharkiv war theatre.
The Russians are going to be disorganized and demoralized as fuck around Kharkiv now.
Comment by I_have_a_dog at 08/03/2022 at 01:59 UTC
345 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Day 12 of the invasion, Zelenskyy is livestreaming from his office in Kyiv and Putin is still hiding in a bunker somewhere.
I honestly don’t know how to process that. Ukraine is punching far above their weight class, and it is so goddamn impressive.
🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!
Comment by progress18 at 08/03/2022 at 01:42 UTC
228 upvotes, 3 direct replies
A captured Russian said there was a direct order to shoot civilians near Kharkiv. He claimed he was injured by his fellows for warning Ukrainian civilians. This should be independently verified, although there were videos of shot civilians in cars
The video shows a crashed car that was shot at from all sides. Both the driver and passenger were killed--they were civilians.
`https://twitter.com/EuromaidanPress/status/1501008658938871810`
Comment by dpwtr at 07/03/2022 at 23:42 UTC*
554 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Russia's secure "Era" phones aren't working[1] because they destroyed all the 3G/4G infrastructure in and around Kharkiv. The info was intercepted when an FSB agent* was reporting Vitaly Gerassimov's death but had to use a normal sim card.[2]
1: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500973926436020226
2: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500970445889327118
Comment by Seth_Gecko at 07/03/2022 at 23:47 UTC*
532 upvotes, 4 direct replies
What a baffling 12 days. Putin has managed to squander every ounce of mystique and fear and grudging respect he's cultivated over the last 20 years. Talk about showing your ass...
Comment by SaberFlux at 08/03/2022 at 00:06 UTC*
664 upvotes, 5 direct replies
Day 12 of my updates from Kharkiv, my previous post can be found at the link above.
Today was way more peaceful than yesterday, but at one point there was some sound of presumably a tank shooting something and it was continuously shooting for around an hour, with each shot sound was moving closer to us and eventually it just stopped.
Thankfully today we didn’t hear any aircraft at all, there are some lone sounds of explosions but at this point unless we are getting shelled non-stop or a plane is flying right above us we don't even really pay any attention to it, it’s weird how fast you get used to it.
Comment by [deleted] at 08/03/2022 at 00:03 UTC*
333 upvotes, 4 direct replies
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Comment by anon902503 at 08/03/2022 at 01:45 UTC
163 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Rosneft has yet to make a payment on a $2 billion, dollar-denominated bond which was due on March 6.
Bailout or default in the next 48 hours.
Comment by [deleted] at 07/03/2022 at 23:50 UTC
446 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Czech President Zeman has announced his decision to present Zelenskyy with the Order of the White Lion, the country's highest state award.
🇨🇿🇺🇦
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1500963888904515589?t=Leq_FN1kh0rCApG3croVeQ&s=19
Enormous deal in war. See also: Malta & King George Cross.
Comment by The_Great_Crocodile at 07/03/2022 at 23:40 UTC
768 upvotes, 9 direct replies
Update on the FSB call reporting the death of the General close to Kharkiv :[1] In the call, you hear the Ukraine-based FSB officer ask his boss if he can talk via the secure Era system. The boss says Era is not working. Era is a super expensive cryptophone system that mod_russia introduced in 2021 with great fanfare. It guaranteed work "in all conditions".
1: https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500973926436020226
The idiots tried to use the Era cryptophones in Kharkiv, after destroying many 3g cell towers and also replacing others with stingrays. Era needs 3g/4g to communicate.
The Russian army is equipped with secure phones that can't work in areas where the Russian army operates.
Comment by icequeeniceni at 08/03/2022 at 00:06 UTC
247 upvotes, 2 direct replies
every single logistical and technical failure i see reported leaves me flabbergasted... until i remember that Navalny documentary where he tricks one of his would-be assassins into describing the failed attempt (with novichok) OVER THE FUCKING PHONE.
Comment by drkgodess at 08/03/2022 at 00:46 UTC
244 upvotes, 2 direct replies
⚡⚡High ranking Russian officers lost in Ukraine so far:
• **2 Generals killed**
Bonus:
• That Chechan General
Comment by itsnobigthing at 07/03/2022 at 23:42 UTC
350 upvotes, 4 direct replies
So, it’s a tiny thing, but perhaps an indication of where things are at for everyday Russian people -
A graphic designer I follow emailed her list today to say she has to close her online store for the foreseeable future. She also can’t use Creative Market any more, or take any more commissions. So, that’s basically her whole business fucked.
Comment by are-e-el at 07/03/2022 at 23:40 UTC
307 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Wow 2nd Russian general is killed in Kharkiv
https://twitter.com/kyivindependent/status/1500970511911825413?s=21
Comment by BlankNothingNoDoer at 07/03/2022 at 23:39 UTC
210 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Is it normal for generals to be in places where they could be taken out? For some reason I would not have expected that.
Comment by WittsandGrit at 08/03/2022 at 00:00 UTC
388 upvotes, 3 direct replies
I'm trying to figure out how I overestimated the capabilities of the Russian army while simultaneously scrolling through r/anormaldayinrussia a lot. We should have known, the proof was right there.
Comment by hoosakiwi at 08/03/2022 at 00:45 UTC
294 upvotes, 6 direct replies
Lol the UKrainian Ambassador to the UN is hilarious.
Ukrainian Ambassador holds up a tweet from Lavrov and advises Russian diplomats that they can obtain assistance for mental help from the NHS by dialing 111
Comment by MEB_PHL at 07/03/2022 at 23:43 UTC
199 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Live by the “Captured Crimea” medal, die by the “Didn’t Capture Kharkiv” medal
Comment by paleselan1 at 08/03/2022 at 03:22 UTC
87 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Just a funny story some of you might appreciate (and it might also explain why McDonald's is so dang popular in Russia).
When McDonald's opened in the Soviet Union for the first time, it had MASSIVE lines. It was a luxury good to eat there, but everyone wanted to experience what western food tasted like. At the time, McDonald's was far more expensive than local restaurants.
In 2000, I had a birthday in a Belarussian McDonald's. My family was from Belarus, and my parents returned from the US to visit their old friends/family for the first time since immigration. At the time, they were both really broke med students, completely on federal student loans. On my birthday, they invited like 40 of their friends to a Belarussian McDonald's and paid for everyone's food. At the time, it cost them the equivalent of less than $100. In Belarussian Rubles, this was overwhelmingly huge money - the equivalent of treating your friends as if you were a millionaire. After massive hyperinflation, they literally paid almost a million rubles for everyone's food.
Maybe that's one of the reasons that McDonald's still is so popular in Russia/Belarus. Sure, middle-class Russians can certainly afford far more now than they could after the '98-99 financial crash. But, the chain could still be seen as the premier place to get "western" or American cuisine.
(FWIW, I think Kentucky Fried Chicken is super popular there too, now. I visited Belarus almost three years ago and people loved KFC in Minsk.)
Comment by romacopia at 07/03/2022 at 23:41 UTC
171 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Are Russians dropping generals on the front line or something? Dudes are dropping fast.
Comment by Combat_Toots at 08/03/2022 at 04:08 UTC
79 upvotes, 3 direct replies
Russian Major General Vitaly Gerasimov and Major General Andrei Sukhovetsky are now dead. The Russian government apparently found out about Major General Gerasimov's death via a call from an unencrypted foreign smart phone, because their billion dollar encrypted communication system doesn't work... Fucking amateur hour over there.
https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1500970445889327118
Comment by ILoveTheAtomicBomb at 08/03/2022 at 03:00 UTC
70 upvotes, 1 direct replies
More corridors, this time in a city where my family is. What a horrifying choice - stay in the city and get shelled or try to leave and get shelled.
Comment by PHDONCURRENTEVENTS at 08/03/2022 at 01:29 UTC
140 upvotes, 2 direct replies
https://twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1500538067983421445[1][2]
1: https://twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1500538067983421445
2: https://twitter.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1500538067983421445
for any ukrainians reading this right now, theres apparently a lot of fake news spreading through ukraine about how "everything is lost"
Not true. Its a psyop.
Comment by PHDONCURRENTEVENTS at 08/03/2022 at 02:21 UTC
137 upvotes, 2 direct replies
https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1500899192885202950[1][2]
1: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1500899192885202950
2: https://twitter.com/marceldirsus/status/1500899192885202950
Olha Koba, a psychologist in Kyiv, said that "anger and hate in this situation is a normal reaction and important to validate." But it is important to channel it into something useful, she said, such as making incendiary bombs out of empty bottles.
lol