Russian blunder in Ukraine: Prestige lost over wooden decoys
Russian army boasted about destroying another Patriot missile launcher in Ukraine. The occupiers were so proud of this that they quickly published the video of the missile hitting the target with an Iskander missile on the internet. However, astute observers noticed that something was off with this Patriot system. The truth will undoubtedly sadden Russians.
Alongside the conventional war on the front in Ukraine, the information war on the internet is also ongoing. Both sides of the conflict are showing their version of events. This conflict is the best-documented war in history.
Moscow propaganda is doubling and tripling efforts to show the Russian society that the term "second army in the world" is not a worn-out phrase. Russians continually boast about their "successes" on the front.
The last video posted by the Russians is a source of real pride for them. The video shows they targeted and then immediately destroyed an extremely valuable Patriot missile launcher with an AN/MPQ-65 radar. Keen internet users spotted that something was amiss with this "Patriot."
Russians hit "Patriot system" - it turned out to be a wooden dummy
It turns out that the Russians targeted and shot down... wooden dummies that the Ukrainians set up as bait. Made of wood and painted, these decoys were meant to trick the Russians. It seems the mission was 100% successful.
The Russians sent a missile to an empty field and destroyed the wooden dummy with an Iskander missile. Had it been a real Patriot system with radar, then the Ukrainians would be counting losses in millions of dollars. Depending on the number of missiles in the system, the losses could have reached tens of millions of dollars.
The loss balance of the Russo-Ukrainian war
Ukraine lost the wooden dummies of the American system. Russians lost one Iskander missile, valued at at least three million dollars. And they became a laughingstock because they insist they "hunted down a Patriot system".
