To be honest I am asking a question,is it really wise to announce such an operation publicly thus giving the enemy time to prepare instead of attacking them by surprise ?
Must be a Russian tradition to become the laughing stock of the world. Even the footages they were releasing when they started their campaign in Syria showed the poor accuracy of the Russian air force,totally missing their targets but someone thought it would be wise to post those footages.
It's less humiliating to declare you are being trashed on the field by NATO instead of Ukraine.
Russians believe their army is actually fighting soldiers from NATO on the ground. Claimed they captured several high ranking NATO generals and officers,of course without any actual visual evidence...
Mariupol defenders will be remembered as heroes and courage and determination will be associated with them. Cut off from the rest of Ukraine for months,a city leveled to the ground,resisting assaults from the hordes of kadyrovs,dnr/lnr and russian troops.
Russians are claiming this is an Ukrainian soldier killed during an attempted landing on Snake Island... problem he seems to wear a Russian navy belt ? This level of desperation ?