• sbv
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    8 months ago

    it’s pretty amazing that cell towers haven’t been targeted by either side

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      8 months ago

      i remember something about the russians targeting them in the first few weeks.

      it turned out that their own encrypted comunication channels relied on the gsm network,
      and they had to fallback to unencrypted radios.

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        8 months ago

        Sounds like average corruption-caused incompetence. Wich sounds legit.

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        8 months ago

        Their goal is annexation as well, meaning that Russia wants to keep as much infrastructure intact as they can.

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          8 months ago

          The goal was Putin staying in power and “dropping concrete slab on enitre nation”.

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      8 months ago

      It also turns out that small metal poles are a lot harder to functionally kill compared to, say, an airplane or human

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      8 months ago

      Putin did target power and communications infrastructure including cell towers.