Looks like they were routed, that does not look like an orderly retreat. They don't even have any vehicles, too
this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2023
133 points (93.5% liked)
Ukraine
8216 readers
1100 users here now
News and discussion related to Ukraine
*Sympathy for enemy combatants is prohibited.
*No content depicting extreme violence or gore.
*Posts containing combat footage should include [Combat] in title
*Combat videos containing any footage of a visible human must be flagged NSFW
Donate to support Ukraine's Defense
Donate to support Humanitarian Aid
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Headline is confusing. At first I thought this guy was retreating
The other posts of this that I have seen say this is the Russians retreating from Makarivka, which is just north of Staromaiorske.
The Ukrainians captured Makarivka on June 13th, so this video is from around that time period.
Good to see Ukraine pushing the invaders back
What is with the music on some of these videos.
men running for their lives benny hill theme music
I think it's a NAFO thing, basically an online community fighting back against misinformation and the Russian war machine with memes. There might be federated examples over at #NAFO.
I guess making things appear more light-hearted makes it more likely to spread further across the Internet, thereby being a more efficient weapon against trolls and online misinformation than dry, factual statements. I still struggle a bit with the whole concept, but at the end of the day I guess it's how the Internet works and it's good that Ukraine and its supporters is using it efficiently.
I guess that makes some sort of sense. If someone wants the dry stuff they can go to a news site, but the meme stuff spreads better.
But man it is WEIRD/Disconcerting to see so much combat footage turned into like music videos.
Thanks for the link. I've been calling out Kremlin propaganda online since before the full invasion of Ukraine but never understood what NATO is. About time more people started countering their lies.