New Hope and Loss recognition

Researcher of the Z-community Ivan Filippov-about what excited the "military" last week

The writer and producer Ivan Filippov leads the telegram channel “ On the ZzzzzaPadnaya Front without Changes” , in which he analyzes Russian wire propaganda. To do this, he studies about 300 Z-channels daily. Especially for the “cold”, Filippov says that he was worried about their authors last week, as well as their war with censorship and how the Ministry of Defense accidentally recognizes its losses.

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Before you start, it is important for me to note one point: the topics that I want to tell you about are interesting primarily to readers, configured by anti -Voneno. Every day, Z-authors write many texts of completely different content, celebrating real, and sometimes invented victories of the Russian army in Ukraine, discussing in an insulting form the Ukrainian leadership or Ukrainians as a whole, the greatness of Vladimir Putin and other understandable propaganda topic. This is a lot of this good on TV, and we, of course, will not talk about this.

I will concentrate on the plots that fall out of the narrative of Russian official propaganda, because this is exactly the Z-channels in Telegram and valuables-there are stories that will never show on TV and will not publish in Russian official media.

The most painful theme for the Z-community can be divided into several categories: complaints about the unsecured army; Lack of drones; lies of the Ministry of Defense; The incompetence of leaders and commanders on Earth and the lack of active support of the war and soldiers from Russian society.

Even when extraordinary events take place at the front, which discusses all Z-space without exception, one of these topics will certainly become the main one at once for several channels. This is explained simply: all of the above problems have been worried about Zubtors for not the first day, they have been complaining about them for the third year-but these problems have not been solved and have not resolved.

The theme of “lies in official reports”, which is paid for the hundreds of the lives of Russian soldiers, became literally trunk for Zubtors after the resignation of the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu and the appointment of Andrei Belousov in his place. The words of the latter: “You can make mistakes - you can’t lie” gave the Tan to the authors the hope that the Ministry of Defense will finally revise its information policy and begin to tell the society the truth about the war.

Through the appointment of several weeks, they quite convincingly proved that this, of course, would not happen. So, on June 15, the Z-Austor Anatoly Radov first published, then removed the post that the group of the Russian military was blocked in Volchansk at the aggregate factory, and then laid out a short explanation: “The nuts are twisted, there will be no more nuances from the places. Such a situation at the moment. I hope for understanding. "

However, last week, the Z-community unexpectedly, as it seemed to them, appeared a new hope associated with the resignation of the first deputy defense minister Ruslan Tsalikov, who, among other things, answered the entire media component of the defense department and the Department of Information and Mass Communications.

The dismissal of Tsalikov on June 17, Zvtors perceived with particular enthusiasm, because it was with him that they associated regular attempts to “tighten the nuts” and personal sanctions by the Ministry of Defense in relation to the authors of the wire-tired telegram channels. This, for example, on the day of the resignation of Shoigu, May 13, directly wrote one of the largest Zubtors' Zubtors: “All the nuts that the defense department twisted against military commissars, military unit and information lighting are often dictated by the vision of the minister and his first deputy.”

Since Tsalikov’s resignation was public and official, Zuletors were not shy in the comments and wrote about a military official in such expressions that they would not have allowed themselves before: “Tsalikov Ruslan Khadzhimelovich, who was resigned (or raised) today, wrote denunciations of almost every military blogger in the country,” wrote Z-Avtor Roman Saponkov.

The RIA Katyusha channel allowed himself to illustrate the very “information policy of the Moscow Region”, or more simply, the show, which the settled Tsalikov was in charge of: “Today, not just the deputy was fired, but the whole era of our army. With tank biathlons, analogues and "do not dare to say that something is missing." <...> From the very first days there [the Ministry of Defense] were engaged in shaving shoulder straps and stories about 100,500 killed and destroyed, and at the same time information wars with their own. ”

On Tuesday, two large Z-channel-“The World today with“ Yuri Podolyak ”and“ Military Country Kitten ”(emphasis on the second O)-in detail refuted the brave report of the Ministry of Defense that“ the units of the Vostok troops liberated the village of Zagorny Zaporizhzhya region and occupied more profitable borders. ”

In fact, it turned out that the “Zagorny settlement” is “a farm in which only 14 people lived in 2001 (there are no other data).” And, most importantly, under the control of the Russian army, he has been located for a long time: “On our maps, he had been behind us for a very long time, as on enemy maps. Moreover, our positions, according to the enemy (and he definitely does not make sense to lie), here for a whole kilometer north of Zagorny. ”

The author of the Channel “Military Crumpus Kotenok” not only refuted the cheerful statement of the Moscow Region, but also stated the obvious - none of the military plans to lie, because they will not praise anyone for the truth and will not encourage: “There is a feeling of a newly fictional and presented“ grinding ”, which happened with the information filing in the military department, at least in the previous leadership of the Ministry Successes were sucked out of large movements on the front line from the finger. It turns out that the principle of “it is possible to make mistakes, you can’t lie”, voiced as an axiom by the new head of the military department, while it works, to put it mildly, not in full force, but in real life does not work. And brave information workers in the rear rivet success in the calculation of praise and encouragement ... ".

Another “eternal” theme of Zubtors, which was discussed especially actively last week, are drones. It was the FPV cries that became the worst and main weapons of the war in Ukraine: they burn armored vehicles, and the burning maximum effect-one hit the penny drone can destroy the tank worth a lot of millions of dollars. Drones destroy the infantry, fortifications, conduct reconnaissance.

The main problem that Zuuttors write about the third year sounds simple: Ukraine has a lot of very good drones, and the Russian army has so necessary weapons catastrophically little. As the author of the Kanov Z channel formulated , which “recently was in one assault company of one very elite division”: “The attack aircraft is poor, like church mice. All the drones that they have, they bought at their own expense or [them] were sent by volunteers. ”

The fact that with the drones of the Ukrainian army everything is in order was written in his telegram channel as the extremely cautious commander of the Vostok battalion Alexander Khodakovsky: “To the contact line, in order to die there, you still need to manage to get alive-the sky is so tightly controlled now.”

Moreover, the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces are not only a lot, they are also constantly being improved. Two large channels-“Witnesses of Bayractar” and “Older than Edda” at once-write that the Ukrainian military with the help of FPV thrones learned to shoot down Russian intelligence drones.

“Ukrainians often began to knock down our“ wings ”. This is an extremely alarming signal. People do not die from such actions, but the consequences can be more serious than from the supply of dozens of “Abrams”, ” writes the author of the Channel“ Witnesses of Bayractar ”. The author of the “older of Edda” adds that drones are only the beginning: “The Ukrainian FPV air defense throns working against our intelligence unmanned aviation becomes a serious problem, and in the future, it may also work against army, primarily helicopters. It must be stated that [Ukrainians] have become world pioneers in this component. ”

But last week there were unusual plots in the Z-space, if not unique.

At the beginning of 2024, the Russian army, with a difference of several weeks, lost two very rare aircraft-Drlo (long-distance radar detection) A-50. On January 15, the A-50 was shot down over the Sea of ​​Azov, and on February 23, the second A-50 was shot down over the Krasnodar Territory. Then, almost all, without exception, the Z-channels called Russian air defense and "friendly fire" guilty of the loss of aircraft. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense did not officially recognize the loss of A-50. As the chief aviation Z-channel Fighterbomber: “On February 23, nothing was shot down at all. In the news for this day there is only a drop in the aircraft and the burning of reeds. ”

Probably, planes would remain one of the many losses unrecognized by the Ministry of Defense, if not for the Investigative Committee. On June 18, the channels of the military informant, the informant and all the same Fighterbomber wrote that “the court in Moscow satisfied the request of the Investigative Committee to elect the 138 Zenit Rocket Brigade of Colonel Nikolai Dzyaman, a preventive measure in the form of detention. He is accused of destroying the A-50 aircraft over the Krasnodar Territory on February 23, 2024 "

This official message of the SK was probably taken by the Ministry of Defense by surprise, since it not only recognized the fact of the destruction of the aircraft (which was, even well -known thanks to several published videos, but nevertheless not official), but also documented that the Ukrainian military had a weapon capable of knocking down planes over the Krasnodar Territory.

Both of these circumstances were extremely saddened by military authors: “If you believe the Investigative Committee, the board was shot down by Ukrainian air defense,” wrote the “informant” channel. Fighterbomber asked the obvious question: “What kind of missiles [Ukrainians] have [Ukrainians] who know how to get into planes of 300 km, and where did they suddenly disappear after this case? For everything that flies now, further 150 (which is also very many) does not master. ”

Finally, the author of the Military Investigator Channel summarized this incredible story: “It can be stated that the American MIM-104 Patriot air defense systems were able to amaze the Russian planes of the Draloi on the ranges that were completely unexpected for the command of the VKS, which led to the loss of two valuable sides within one month, as well as unfair (in these cases) public accusations against the domestic. Air Defense for supposedly “friendly fire”. ”

Since the beginning of the war, such situations have never happened before, but the Ministry of Defense was predictable against the Ukrainian military and the facts voiced by the Investigative Committee did not comment. It is noteworthy that a military aircraft returning from a combat mission in the SK materials appears as a “aircraft”, which is “not intended for conducting hostilities, has no weapons, and the flight took place exclusively in the airspace of the Russian Federation”.

I would like to complete the noticeable Z-channel “Two Maigors” about another serious problem that is still not solved in the Russian army in the Russian army: the military does not understand why and why they are fighting : “The problem of understanding the targets and objectives of their own. Judging by the speakers from the TV, they are changing from denacing and victory over NATO to the release of the DPR. In global terms, this gives a phrase from our military intelligence officers: “We are fighting because we are fighting and shooting at us”. ”

The author’s opinion may not coincide with the opinion of the editorial office.