• EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Is this counter-propaganda?

    Interesting that a Ukrainian source is claiming cannibalism on the Russian side after an article showing Ukrainian soldiers starved at their posts for months because the Ukrainian army is so short-staffed that they can’t reliably rotate their soldiers.

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      10 hours ago

      Possibly, but probaly not. I don’t begrudge the Russian soldiers for resorting to cannibalism - the dead don’t need their bodies and if there are no supplies, you gotta eat somehow. It’s Putin and the weak Russians who let him do this to their own people for no good reason (as well as to other people), that’s who is to blame a deserve to die horribly over a million times.
      And while I wouldn’t be suprised if the Ukrainian army has a difficult time staffing proper rotations, the case you refer to was about trapped Ukrainian soldiers who were unable to get supplied due to drones attacking supply routes. They could only get supplies via drones, and every time they did that, it risked giving away their exact location. War is horrible. Russia needs to fuck off and leave Ukraine.