As many as 100 Russian Army soldiers were killed Thursday when a Ukrainian HIMARS missile struck the mustering ground in the occupied Luhansk region where they had been waiting for their commander speak – for two hours, the Kyiv Post reports citing pro-Kremlin military bloggers furious at the “stupidity and sloppiness” with which the soldiers had been left out in the open.
“If by the middle of the second year of the war there are commanders that carry columns to the front and build personnel in one big pile, and then wait for the enemy artillery to strike, then such commanders must be shot before the formation, even if they are colonels or even generals,” wrote pro-Kremlin military blogger Vysokygovorit. Another propagandist, Dva Majors, wrote “We are at war with our own stupidity and bullshit, smeared from above with beautiful reports.”