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Although I'm sure their target audience is Ukrainians' who are on the cusp of not caring anymore about this conflict, I still feel it's more about telling Russians how Bad Ukrainians are and how good they are and the Special Operation is needed... In other words, Propaganda for the Home Team...

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Is it just me or does this attempt also seem half-hearted? Like they don't actually want to hurt the guy, because it's their buddy? Seems awfully convenient that those hardcore nationalist Ukrainian soldiers, willing to kill their own solider for refusing to fight, cut the footage right when they would need to start actually hurting the guy. And the little shove/kick at the end doesn't look very forceful either.

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They say "buried alive" but that guy looks pretty much dead...

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I agree bullets are cheap so why would waste time and energy doing all that.

I wonder if this is in response to the accounts from Vagner group shooting and bludgeoning it's recruits into fighting.

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If I'm watching the embedded videos in the Android app, is there a way to make the videos play in a full screen viewer? I can barely read the captions, much less see what's going on, and I don't see any of the common icons or buttons to tap on to make it full the screen. I'm not familiar with this platform, having started using it just to see Ryan's editor's cut videos.

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Great stuff, you've converted me to a paid sub.

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Things like this probably have happened, sadly. You’ve got farmers fighting with peasants, with miners, with teachers etc. There are a lot of non professional soldiers in Ukraine right now; it’s a mosh pit of different people from different backgrounds and classes.

I believe this video is fake, but there will cases where intentional blue on blue could happen.

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Just joined your substack. Enjoyed the shorts on you tube that you posted. First anything I have subscribed to, only 5 a month but money is tight. I will do better for.you later.

I agree totally this is Russian propaganda. Kind of like in the Russian vids they refer to any and every soldier as special forces, lol, I reminded if they are all special, then no one is. They sent a nasty reply when I asked if special meant like short bus special or mental hosp special. Russians don't have a sense of humor I guess.

Sorry for ranting, liking your work on the vids allot. Take care, HUA

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I think it’s total BS. I will say in your video you said you couldn’t tell if it was a person, but it looked to me like it moved so it probably was a person. But it’s one of two things in my world, one, it’s Russian propaganda or, too, it’s Ukrainian soldiers being the kids that they are. I would say that the chances of this being real or somewhere between zero and one percent.

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