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Personal logo Editor in Chief Bill The Editor of TMP Fezian10 Dec 2024 3:04 p.m. PST

Russian forces in Ukraine are increasingly relying on civilian taxis to evacuate wounded soldiers from the front lines in the occupied Donetsk region.

The development, highlighted by Daniil Bezsonov, a pro-Russian military blogger and former deputy information minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, follows a controversial decision by the Russian military to ban the use of privately owned and humanitarian vehicles…

Moscow Times: link

79thPA Supporting Member of TMP10 Dec 2024 3:27 p.m. PST

A great market for Uber and lyft drivers. I'd want to be tipped up front.

CFeicht10 Dec 2024 3:29 p.m. PST

Might want to invest in a MRAP

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP10 Dec 2024 3:58 p.m. PST

The Russian "Somme Battle"?… (smile)


But in reverse… instead of taking the soldiers to the Battle… they evacuate them…

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Col Durnford Supporting Member of TMP10 Dec 2024 4:15 p.m. PST

Good one, my friend.

Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP10 Dec 2024 4:33 p.m. PST

(smile)

Armand

Captain Sensible10 Dec 2024 5:54 p.m. PST

The last time I went to the emergency room, I took an Uber. 5 minute wait vs. 45 minutes for the ambulance.

Cuprum2 Supporting Member of TMP10 Dec 2024 10:57 p.m. PST

The main message of the Russian blogger is that the use of non-standard vehicles by troops should not be prohibited. Since the standard vehicles are not enough to perform all the tasks in the conditions of a modern battle (saturation of the skies above the frontline zone with kamikaze drones) and they perish quite quickly. Moreover, this situation is on both sides of the front line.

Andrew Walters11 Dec 2024 9:45 a.m. PST

Like the Taxis of the Marne!

Personal logo Legion 4 Supporting Member of TMP13 Dec 2024 10:28 a.m. PST

Andrew +1

But wonder if it was an Uber not a taxi …?

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