Drone pilots from Ukraine's 60th Separate Mechanised Brigade have used an unmanned ground vehicle to evacuate an elderly woman after she was spotted walking along a road exposed to Russian fire.
I did a quick deep dive into this story, and basically: the incident seems to have happened, it’s still under investigation, and the 3rd Army Corps does indeed have right-wing roots.
But at the same time, it’s just one incident. An army’s a big organization with lots of people, there’s always going to be at least a few monsters in there. I’m not seeing anything to suggest that this is a systematic thing. And refusing to comment on something where there’s an ongoing investigation doesn’t seem unreasonable to me either.
It’s common for propaganda to latch on to specific incidents that match the narrative they’re after and display them as if they were representative of the general case. The fact that this seems to have nothing to do with the subject of the news story this thread is about beyond the very generic “3rd Army” connection suggests to me that this was likely intended as that.
If this thread were about that incident, sure, it’s a bad thing worthy of discussion. This thread is not about that, though, and jumping in out of nowhere with “but look, bad Ukrainians!” Looks pretty disingenuous.
I did a quick deep dive into this story, and basically: the incident seems to have happened, it’s still under investigation, and the 3rd Army Corps does indeed have right-wing roots.
But at the same time, it’s just one incident. An army’s a big organization with lots of people, there’s always going to be at least a few monsters in there. I’m not seeing anything to suggest that this is a systematic thing. And refusing to comment on something where there’s an ongoing investigation doesn’t seem unreasonable to me either.
It’s common for propaganda to latch on to specific incidents that match the narrative they’re after and display them as if they were representative of the general case. The fact that this seems to have nothing to do with the subject of the news story this thread is about beyond the very generic “3rd Army” connection suggests to me that this was likely intended as that.
If this thread were about that incident, sure, it’s a bad thing worthy of discussion. This thread is not about that, though, and jumping in out of nowhere with “but look, bad Ukrainians!” Looks pretty disingenuous.