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.
since the covert Russian invasion in 2014.
Lmao wut. We couped their government and Crimea voted to leave ukraine (a few decades after ukraine couped their independent government). Cope harder liberals.
Crimea voted to leave ukraine
its only a legitimate vote if its in the western region of the world. otherwise its a sparkling democracy.
coup harder liberals
No please don’t.
Coup your regime, then coup every regime around you!
I dunno what it is, but every time they (media) give a nickname to someone, its entirely a fabricated person. I noticed this in the CHAZ reporting and also in Haiti and Ukraine
Like, posting pictures, describing how this dude operates, describing what his house looks like, and describing what the outside of his lab is going to look like… there’s no way this article is talking about a real thing.
All a drone needs to start looking for is “Dudes walking around places where 1) Russian forces have moved away from and 2) had indirect fire assets present”, “houses near these places with piles of mortars, mines, and artillery shells”, and “Buildings with Skull and Crossbones or Mad Max” spray painted on them to call in a glide bomb.
So kind of him to pick an English nick name.
we’re all living in amerika so an action movie from 40 years ago is a cultural touchstone they could have, assuming this guy is an actual person
there’s a russian language wikipedia page, anyway: Безумный Макс
Coca-Cola, Wonderbra
In the photos from that article, there’s a picture of a patch that says “Sapper” in English instead of any of the common languages in Ukraine. I don’t think there’s anything explaining where this patch came from or who it belonged to. Definitely giving me some very weird vibes.
Stalker would be a much better nickname
much better, but the people this guy is probably made up for haven’t played a videogame.
Or seen a movie
Especially since there was a new one in like 2015 or something and apparently theres another one coming out soon or something (?)
State Department creative writing club’s latest masterpiece
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
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
Training my Ukrainian to find brass shells like a pig is used to hunt truffles.
and shot the range master
Wasting ammo like that? Probably a Russian saboteur.
