I suppose we'll know for sure soon enough. Mauripol's fall seems a certainty by this point, no matter how long it actually takes. and if these alleged glowniggers are nowhere to be found, among the living or the dead, by the end of it all, it'll be safe to call it BS then since russians would no doubt love to parade them publicly for the world to see if they could capture them.
Not to mention, if you capture them alive, they could be a very useful bargaining chip to get sanctions dropped in exchange for their release.
I actually don't remember Russian media showing any during Georgian conflict. So not necessarily?
If Canada becomes the first western country to tell the environmentalist dipshits to go fuck themselves, I'll be 100% convinced that I got isekai'd into the Berenstein universe.
They're usually not worth that much. They could be anything from dime a dozen contractors working for the DoD who """"volunteered"""" to fight and thus are expendable, to contractors hired by the CIA to do the work without getting any CIA asset killed, if not CAG or SAS (which I doubt).
Oh I didn't mean getting them all dropped or anything, but it would definitely be useful for getting a few dropped. Anything to ease the pressure from sanctions is a win for Russia.
>Can't speak to what's in Putin's head
not a funny death to die over a couple of hours in an upsidedown tank with teh hatch blocked by the ground.
The problem with sanctions is that they can be reinstated. Prisoner exchanges are more reliable in that aspect.
Still better than drowning assuming they died from running out of oxygen inside the tank, yeah it's longer but at least they pass out from carbon dioxide poisoning and suffocate while unconscious instead of drowning. In case you want to be fucked up, here's an excerpt from a book that describes just what somebody goes through while drowning.
Judging by the fact in their own photos the escape hatch has clearly been opened (and that it sunk in extremely shallow water), it's a safe assumption that the crew successfully escaped. Also, given the Ukis propensity to extensively film every single corpse they find, the fact that none of the photos have any bodies, or body bags, or anything other than the tank is a telling sign.
In this case the two bodies of the crew are clearly visible.
Is that the negrater of keeeeev? our very own @Vince McMahon ?
Also the tank wouldn't fill up with water that quickly, T-72s do have a degree of CBRN protection, so the hatches are hermetically sealed if closed, which means it would take a bit for it to actually fill up with water. Tanks don't usually drown because the crew does, it's more because the engine compartment intakes and exhausts aren't sealed so water chokes out the engine. Various nations got around this in WW2 by putting snorkels on their vehicles. Or uh, the modern Krauts got around it with this goofy shit.
