RU soldier: "We don't know who to shoot -- they all look like us"

[steve2470]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/russia-ukraine/?id=82467772&cid=social_twitter_abcn#83131892

A senior U.S. official told ABC News they've heard a Russian soldier on a radio call saying, “We don’t know who to shoot -- they all look like us.”

The official also said some Russian forces are disoriented, realizing the battles against Ukrainians are harder than they thought.

[msongs]

1. they've heard.... nt

[democratsruletheday]

2. Really timely thread steve.....

as I laid my head down last night and tried to sleep I said a deep, slow and hopeful prayer for all Ukrainians. Nope, not religious typically but I don't know what else to do right now folks. After my prayer I thought of some video I've seen and how similar the Russian and Ukrainian soldiers look...not just physically but in terms of their uniforms. I quickly dismissed the thought and just silly overthinking of the battles...of COURSE they know who is who and tried unsuccessfully to drift off to sleep. Now I see this thread and realize it was a legit thought.

[steve2470]

3. sleep well later tonight ! nt

[Delphinus]

17. Welcome to DU!

From another non-religious person, I will admit to basically 'praying' ceaselessly for the people of Ukraine. And the Russian soldiers, like the one in the village of Sumy, whose people told him he wasn't welcome in their town, may they find these are their relatives. We are all one; we all bleed red.

[niyad]

18. Welcome to our DU family.

[11 Bravo]

4. Dude should be a Minneapolis cop instead of a Russian grunt.

Life would be so much easier for him.

[IronLionZion]

7. That was dark and true

[uponit7771]

8. Yep

[Skittles]

16. do you mean like this one?

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/21/1047986308/mohammad-noor-sentenced-minneapolis-police-911-australian-caller

[Srkdqltr]

5. The Ukrainian s are Russian, Russians are Ukraine they just live in another area. The Russians are

Essentially killing their relatives. This is that awful.

[SunSeeker]

11. Ukrainians are not Russian. They speak a different Slavic language.

Ukrainian sounds a lot more like Serbian than Russian.

[onethatcares]

13. and I guess the rest of the Slavic nations

have similar sounds/dialects/nuances. Just like everywhere in the U.S. of A., Mexico, Canada, France, Germany and the rest of the world.

We're all the same under the skin the only question is: Why do a few of the billions of people on the planet think they own the rest of us.



I just can't understand that.

[mjvpi]

22. The last time that I checked......

All blood is red and all tears are salty.

[colorado_ufo]

14. Many of them also speak russian, which will add to the confusion

of the Russian soldiers. It will also make it easier to intercept their communications.

[Srkdqltr]

28. I'm talking genetically. Language and country names change but genetically they are all of a family

Or most all. As we here in the US whose ancestors came from central to east Europe.

[SunSeeker]

29. Genetically we're all family.

[paleotn]

15. No, they're actually not.

No more than the Dutch and the Danes are German.

[Lucky Luciano]

27. Ukrainians will strenuously disagree with you.

I remember in 2005 working with a Ukrainian guy for my first job…he would correct people very quickly if they equated Russians with Ukrainians. Of course there is s lot of overlapping history, but they are distinct.

[Hoyt]

6. Watching some of the Ukrainian heroes standing in front of tanks, etc.,

don’t think some of the Russian soldiers are really into killing their neighbors, at least right now.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[AndyS]

9. The very best plan seldom survives the first contact with the enemy . . .

[Hortensis]

19. That's it! Famous saying, but I can never remember

the succinct form and start sounding like W with his "fool me once. uh..."

[AndyS]

21. I found this:

The German field marshal, known as Moltke the Elder, believed in developing a series of options for battle instead of a single plan, saying “No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.” Today, “no plan survives contact with the enemy” is the popular reconfiguration of this concept.

[Hortensis]

24. The old form sounds like something I'd start mangling. Never use

one word when two will be twice as much. Who knows, Moltke might approve having spares.

[LaMouffette]

26. Someone on DU quoted Mike Tyson as saying, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

May the Russian soldiers and above all Putin himself suffer a debilitating punch in the mouth.

My heart is breaking for Ukraine having to fight this fight alone.

[Lucky Luciano]

25. "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth" - Mike Tyson

[paleotn]

12. Battles between 18 year old conscripts and people defending their hearth and home often are.

[orwell]

20. That's why we usually wage war on brown people...

...it's way easier to figure out who the enemy is...

[TeamProg]

23. Uh... Yah. Numbskulls.. n/t