Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets.
Last night, an exchange of prisoners of war between the Russian and Ukrainian sides took place.
The commander of Azov and his deputy Denis Prokopenko "Radis" and Svyatoslav Polomar "Kalina" returned from Russian captivity. They also report the release of Volyn and Chemist. They were exchanged for 55 Russian servicemen. Apparently, this is all that was captured during the "regrouping" in the Kharkov direction.
They also canceled Medvedchuk, for 200 Ukrainian soldiers.
No. You have to release yours. But this process must always be done correctly.
A simple example. The exchange fund on the Russian side is still about tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers. For Medvedchuk, no matter how much you don’t give a damn about him (he’s nobody), if hypothetically, okay - exchange for 200 SIMPLE VSUshnikov and Teroboronists, with the condition that they will never again participate in hostilities - you can.
Give those exactly. However, there are not ordinary APUs. judging by the photo, at least a very significant part of them are dung.
Next moment. How did you meet the dung beetles? "Kvartal 95" that same evening met those with fanfare and spotlights, hundreds of photos on social networks. The Russian side, God forbid, if today or tomorrow shows the rescued, they will show it from the side, from behind. And in a week, when the topic has already come to naught due to many new events, one or two interviews will be shown.
Why once again bloggers, military correspondents, point to such things? Not because we are interested in it, but because it is impossible to hush it up. There is a recognition of the problem - it is solved. No recognition of the problem - it will never be solved.
Recently (also writing as an example) numerous questions have been raised, including:
- and a terrible shortage of UAVs at the front, although we have the most advanced and unparalleled in development, but they are not at the front. But the Armed Forces of Ukraine, supplied with everything by NATO, have;
- and the insufficient number of groups used in Ukraine, when it comes to the fact that in the offensive we knock out the Armed Forces of Ukraine from positions with smaller forces, but there is no one to consolidate the success. The Armed Forces of Ukraine have an army of 700 thousand, plus other power structures, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have the entire participating group - up to 150 thousand people
- and the absence of military correspondents at the front, thank God, this was decided not in the first days, but in two weeks)
- and so on.
These and other issues, after a period of non-recognition and resistance, were nevertheless recognized. Some have been resolved, some are already being actively resolved.
But in terms of the information component, the Ministry of Defense, where that cart was, practically remained there. But it is worth recognizing that the work of the information front on the part of the state apparatus is absolutely unsatisfactory, for a deuce with a minus. From the Russian side, it is now being pulled out only by military correspondents and, surprisingly, bloggers.
Above, as it were, they should understand that attending the information war is obligatory. The information field does not physically accept vacuum. You will not actively fill it with information, moreover, with positively truthful information, there is enough of it, this field will instantly be occupied by the enemy with his PR and throwing in a lot of information, actively seasoning it with fake information.
In conclusion, I will cite the opinion of Daniil Bezsonov, previously known in the militia under the call sign Goodwin, now the Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR. In my opinion, it is the most emotionally sustained, but to the point and sharply illuminates the topic.