A photo apparently showing Russian troops stranded in an elevator is going viral War, and being stuc

[rebewranger]

A photo apparently showing Russian troops stranded in an elevator is going viral
War, and being stuck in an elevator, is hell

BY MAX HAUPTMAN | PUBLISHED MAR 7, 2022 1:50 PM
 
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been described as the first “TikTok war,” with photos and videos from soldiers and civilians alike spreading and proliferating in real time.

There are reports about the mythical “Ghost of Kyiv”; a woman defiantly telling Russian soldiers that their bodies will soon be fodder for sunflowers, the national flower of Ukraine; and the supposed last stand of Ukrainian troops on Snake Island. Dozens of videos show Ukrainian civilians making off with disabled or abandoned Russian armored vehicles. Some of these reports are true, some of them false, but all are part of the murky information front of the conflict.


Against this backdrop comes one of the latest social media updates from the invasion, posted by eastern European news outlet Visegrád 24, which showed a squad of Russian soldiers packed tightly in an elevator, supposedly stuck while trying to make their way to the top of a building.

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russia-soldiers-stuck-elevator-ukraine-viral/

[rebewranger]

I guess elevator usage was never covered in the wokeness studies Russia has for it's troops.

[Kamaji]

Personally, given all the propaganda being put out there by everyone, I would tend to consider this a propaganda vid rather than a real vid until there is sufficient confirmation.  I cannot believe that Russian troops would not have been trained at least to the point where they would know to take the stairs when sweeping a building.

[rebewranger]

Maybe the instructions were in English so the Ruskies couldn't read them?