"Russian Soldiers: Get Wounded, Call a Taxi" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 10 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  | 10 Dec 2024 3:27 p.m. PST |
A great market for Uber and lyft drivers. I'd want to be tipped up front. |
| CFeicht | 10 Dec 2024 3:29 p.m. PST |
Might want to invest in a MRAP |
| Tango01 | 10 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…
Armand |
| Col Durnford | 10 Dec 2024 4:15 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 10 Dec 2024 4:33 p.m. PST |
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| Captain Sensible | 10 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 | 10 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 Walters | 11 Dec 2024 9:45 a.m. PST |
Like the Taxis of the Marne! |
 Legion 4 | 13 Dec 2024 10:28 a.m. PST |
Andrew +1 But wonder if it was an Uber not a taxi …? |
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