r/worldnews • u/ArgentineBeauty • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine ‘We Were Mistaken’: Putin Admits Russia Was Unprepared for Ukrainian Strikes on Oil Refineries

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/83674
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u/Relative_Mix_216 18h ago

… And then they sent their own troops to dig trenches in the radioactive dirt

They’re so damn dumb

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u/disdain7 18h ago

You left out the part about how they also hunted local wildlife and cooked the meat over fires started with wood from local trees. I wonder how those guys are doing these days?

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u/AdIll6213 17h ago

It was not part of the plan for those guys to survive for very long, so being exposed to radioactive materials was probably of very little concern to the russian leaders.

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u/Boofaholic_Supreme 17h ago

Pushing up sunflowers

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u/Germanofthebored 17h ago

Glowing health!

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u/dwhite21787 9h ago

Seriously? JFC

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u/shortyjacobs 17h ago

I mean, how were they supposed to know? There's no HBO MAX there!

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u/More_Passenger3988 15h ago edited 14h ago

They're not dumb though- They have a long history of "throwing bodies" at their enemy. Just sending their men off to war knowing that they're sending them to suicide missions figuring that the kamakazi method will eventually pay off.

There have been times in Russia when it did I guess... (at the cost of families and the economic success of Russia I would argue) but not this time.

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u/weirdo_nb 18h ago

Like, the dirt that has gradually built up had mildly contained it, emphasis on had

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u/SixSpeedDriver 15h ago

They're not dumb. They (their leadership) doesn't care.

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u/brutinator 18h ago

Ehh, itll take years for the exposure to give them cancer, and by then Russia will have either thrown them into the meat grinder or toss them aside.

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u/Relative_Mix_216 17h ago

I heard reports they were already suffering from mild radiation sickness

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u/Affectionate_Shirt_2 7h ago

No, they just don’t care about their people.

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u/That-Comfortable-762 1h ago

You mean the conscripted prisoners that were supposed to die anyway?