r/ukraine • u/yorkiecd • 1d ago
News 3 senior Russian officers killed in HIMARS, drone attack, Ukraine’s military intelligence says
https://kyivindependent.com/3-senior-russian-officers-killed-in-himars-drone-attack-ukraines-military-intelligence-says/69
u/KingAteas 1d ago
Well I guess they’re not senior officers anymore.
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u/angelorsinner 1d ago
They been downgraded from officers to fertilizer
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u/Orangesteel 1d ago
*upgraded. They are ruZZian. There is no downgrade from that.
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u/KingAteas 1d ago
Hopefully they’ll make sun nice sunflowers.🌻
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u/angelorsinner 12h ago
Babushka in Kherson had it right from day 1: https://youtu.be/L17Bi7zBJHI?si=tGFkhUjR6aavD2bn
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u/YoKevinTrue 1d ago
One day we're going to wake up and Russia is going to implode.
It's also going to be interesting to see what happens to the Kuril islands and Transnistria.
At some point it would be possible to just walk in and take them.
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u/His-Mightiness 1d ago
"Another one down. Another one down. Another one bites the dust. Hey hey. Gonna get you too. Another one bites the dust." Thank you Queen. We'll get them all. You can run but we run faster, you can hide but we still see you, you can fight but we fight harder, you can bug us but we will squish you, you can hit us but we hit harder, you can try but it's no use because we try harder. You can't win so either give up now or be destroyed. You think you're strong but you're no match for us because Ukraine is stronger, stronger than diamonds.
To victory, together. Victory to Ukraine and Victory to the heroes.
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u/Longjumping_Whole240 1d ago
Title said senior officers, yet the three killed were captains, which is a junior officer rank.
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u/His-Mightiness 1d ago
One of two things: either it's not in Russia and you go to General next, or they are running out (or already out) of higher ranking officers. I think it's the second one.
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u/tigersanddawgs 1d ago
Realistically how much gain is there from killing officers at this point? The tactics are just meat waves and I'm sure the officers have been replaced frequently enough that they're not that good or experienced anyways.
That said more dead Russian soldiers is always good
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u/matdan12 1d ago
Logistics, strategy, communications between front and rear echelons, conferring commands down the line, keeping troops in check who get cold feet etc. Senior officers killed degrades quality of Russian battle groups and leads to weaknesses in the line Ukraine can exploit.
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u/bart416 22h ago
Russian troops generally aren't taught to take the initiative. In NATO militaries folks are taught to take the initiative at the squad level, in the orc forces you are told what to do and when to do it. We saw this in the early days when very high ranked people were operating near the frontlines because the command chain wasn't able to deal with the lack of communication, it's improved in some ways, but it's still nothing like a NATO military.
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