It's just so unfair!

[Mock Turtle]

Russia blames 'hackers' for fake missile strike alerts

Millions of Russians in almost a dozen cities throughout the country were greeted Wednesday morning by radio alerts, text messages, and sirens warning of an air raid or missile strikes that never occurred. The warnings were later blamed on hackers. According to reports from news operations in Russia, a woman's voice was broadcast through a number of radio stations – including Relax FM, Avatoradio, Yumor FM, and Comedy Radio – saying, "Attention, an air raid warning is being announced. Go to the shelter immediately. Attention, Attention, threat of a missile strike." The broadcasts were played in at least 10 cities – Pyatigorsk, Tyumen, Voronezh, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Magnitogorsk, Stary Oskol, Ufa, and Novouralsk. Local officials in some of the cities, including in the Belgorod and Kurgan regions, quickly announced that the alerts were fake and the country's Ministry of Emergency Situations later accused unidentified miscreants of initiating the broadcasts.

Ah, what a shame that they are getting just a little of what the Ukrainians have been suffering for a year.

It is rumoured that thousands of Russians want to be exchanged for a similar number of Ukrainians so they can truly experience the effects of war.

 

[Debater Slayer]

Ah, what a shame that they are getting just a little of what the Ukrainians have been suffering for a year.

We're talking about civilians who may or may not support the war and the Putin regime. I see no reason to gloat over or lament this. It's fairly insignificant news.

 

[Viker]

That's pretty serious. I wouldn't want to be in that situation.

 

[Mock Turtle]

We're talking about civilians who may or may not support the war and the Putin regime. I see no reason to gloat over or lament this. It's fairly insignificant news.

We are also talking about civilians who might have prevented the war.

 

[Revoltingest]

We are also talking about civilians who might have prevented the war.

From what I read, the war has wide support in
Russia, eg, snitching on those who oppose it.
It's hypocrisy for Russians to complain about
a small scare, when they're killing thousands
of Ukrainians in the invasion.
Go, "unidentified miscreants"!

It would be even better if the hackers would
sabotage the Russian military, thereby
increasing the probability of Ukraine's victory.

 

[Mock Turtle]

From what I read, the war has wide support in
Russia, eg, snitching on those who oppose it.
It's hypocrisy for Russians to complain about
a small scare, when they're killing thousands
of Ukrainians in the invasion.
Go, "unidentified miscreants"!

It would be even better if the hackers would
sabotage the Russian military, thereby
increasing the probability of Ukraine's victory.

Quite difficult to get an accurate appraisal of opinions in Russia no doubt, but there most likely is a large majority not opposed to the war (if they even have accurate accounts of such), given that the population seems to have been indoctrinated into the Putin Way over decades. They might have risen up and complained more when and if they noticed that any democracy they ever had just disappeared along with the rise of Putin. But aren't we ultimately to blame for the leaders we get?

 

[Revoltingest]

Quite difficult to get an accurate appraisal of opinions in Russia no doubt, but there most likely is a large majority not opposed to the war (if they even have accurate accounts of such), given that the population seems to have been indoctrinated into the Putin Way over decades. They might have risen up and complained more when and if they noticed that any democracy they ever had just disappeared along with the rise of Putin. But aren't we ultimately to blame for the leaders we get?

If the Russian populace goes along with the war, they're enablers.
So it's useful to see measures taken to discourage their support.
There's a question about which methods actually work toward this goal.

 

[Mock Turtle]

If the Russian populace goes along with the war, they're enablers.
So it's useful to see measures taken to discourage their support.
There's a question about which methods actually work toward this goal.

True, and this is why I would ban them from the Olympics - as one way to get through to the people.