thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 21^st, 2026 at 2:29pm:

A great reason why all Australians will have guns.
Tomorrow when the War began (movie)

A bayonet would have been a good contingency for starters.
Seems to Mongol Orc has worked with knife a lot more in Siberian use and the Ukrainian hasn't got old school fighting experience - totally reliant on projectile fighting. A drone operating soldier would have fared worse.
Old school still delivers.

The blurries always suck.

Russians executing their own soldiers in large numbers:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz7gw3l395ro

24th Feb.  2026

Warning: This story contains details of extreme violence and reference to suicide.

Four Russian soldiers have exposed the horror and brutality of conditions on their side of the front lines in Ukraine, with two men telling the BBC they saw soldiers being executed on the spot for refusing orders.

One man told a documentary team he saw a soldier executed on the order of his commander, who was made a "Hero of Russia" in 2024.

"I see it - just two metres, three metres... click, clack, bang," he said.

Another soldier, from a different unit, says he saw his commander shoot four men himself.

"I knew them," he says of the soldiers executed. "I remember one of them screaming 'Don't shoot, I'll do anything!'"

One of them also says he saw 20 bodies of fellow soldiers lying in a pit after being "zeroed" by comrades. The term "zero" is Russian military slang for executing your own.

In the documentary, The Zero Line: Inside Russia's War, men give detailed accounts about how they were tortured for refusing to take part in assaults they describe as verging on suicide missions. Russian troops call these attacks "meat storms" as waves of men are sent across the front line relentlessly to try and wear down Ukrainian forces.

Dima also describes how he saw bodies of 20 men, who had arrived at his base the previous night, lying in a ditch having been shot.

He says he spoke to several of the men, all ex-convicts, before witnessing them being taken away the following morning.

As a medic, the dead were routinely reported to Dima, and he says he was informed that these men had been shot dead by a commander and their bank cards taken.

"Twenty lads were brought to us. They just took their bank cards and killed them," he recalls. "It's not a problem to write off someone. You just make up a report."

Dima says he was told the bank cards had been taken by commanders.

The BBC documentary also hears from another former soldier - a senior staff officer, who says he served in the Russian military for 17 years. The former officer, whom we are not naming, says he spoke to a man who had helped kill a group of high-ranking officers.

The man said he had been part of a "liquidation squad sent to finish any survivors", the former officer recalls.

"I've never seen anything like this during all my years of service."

Russia's wealth has grown .7% in twelve years due to production increase in crime. Land assets show satisfactory performance with planned losses in remaining tanks and humans of industrial age. The outlook is for break and enter, apartment recycling and net zero bank bottom line.