• D61 [any]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Known by the call sign “Mad Max,” he has supplied at least 14,000 shells to brigades across Ukraine’s east, plus 4,000 munitions for aerial drones to drop on Russian troops and vehicles, he estimates.

    scratches head in confusion

    A hulking figure, with an unruly dark beard and bright green eyes, Polyukhovich has been fighting for eight years in eastern Ukraine, where the war has been raging since the covert Russian invasion in 2014.

    snaps fingers

    Ah… now it makes sense.

  • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    This makes more sense when it’s Hamas getting their explosives from Israeli duds than when it’s the dumping ground of half the munitions the West had stockpiled

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    I saw a Ukrainian patriot at the gun range last week trying to sneakily stuff brass from the floor into his pants and casually leaving. Realized it was steel ammo and couldn’t be reloaded and shot the range master