A favorite Russian military myth is that winter is always on their side but thousands are freezing at home.
Kremlin propagandists have long claimed that “General Frost” marshalled his icy forces to help Russia beat back Napoleon and Hitler, and will aid its troops in their invasion of Ukraine. But Vladimir Putin is finding the cold can be a fickle friend.
In the Moscow region in recent days and weeks, Russians have been freezing in their homes.
Some 20,000 people in the cities of Klimovsk, Lyubertsy, and Podolsk, in the Moscow region, have been left without heating for days — some of them for weeks — as temperatures have dropped below -25C last week, Russian Telegram channel Baza reported. Local authorities declared an emergency.
According to the state-run TASS news agency, the main reason for the lack of heat was a broken boiler at a local ammunition factory that supplies the Russian army’s war in Ukraine but also used to provide heat to Klimovsk and its outskirts.
Lmao I remember this russian propaganda video about Germany having no gas on christmas 2022
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I hope that the dude who wrote this shit has a lot of windows in his appartment
General Frost?
Man Putin must be scraping the bottom of the barrel if he’s using CO’s from Advance Wars.
Let the winds of war bring snow
His pals in NK and Iran have been using poorly edited video games footage as propaganda for years. This is the next logical step after importing faulty munitions: importing faulty tactics as well.
As a person who has played the Arma series my whole life it is truly astounding, sad and hilarious when footage from one of those games is seriously presented as actual real world footage by any actual news outlet.
ONE
Is down!
TWO
Taking Command!
One can complain about the industrial-military complex in the US, but in Russia people literally rely on the local ammunition factory for heating their homes. Fucking hell.
Also, a boiler is broken for months in an ammunition factory in the middle of a war?? How many yachts does thr owner have??
The most charitable excuse is that it requires parts they can’t get due to sanctions.
At the same time, it’s a boiler in Russia. How high tech could it possibly be???
Steam Boilers are incredibly dangerous, especially large industrial ones that could be used to heat an entire town.
It’s not uncommon for a poorly run boiler system to be down for a time due to a broken makeup water pump or faulty pressure reliefs. Many industrial plants will have multiple smaller boilers for that reason, as a properly running plant will be able to bring a damaged boiler offline and bring the spare online rather quickly with little to know loss to production or heating.
If that thing ever got low on water for any reason, it would do more damage to the area than a bombing run by the enemy.
Oh completely agree. I just wouldn’t think that the parts required to fix a steam boiler are high enough tech to be impacted by sanctions.
It probably isn’t sanctions directly on the needed parts, but more of a lack of focus/resources to put into fixing it. It could also be an inability to pay for foreign parts due to being locked out of Swift
Oh look twenty thousand comrades just volunteered for the front line.
Sounds like the only competent general in Russia is finally giving them the cold shoulder.
Their system of centralized district heating would be so fuckin easy to break with insurrection or black ops strike.
