Whereas the world continues to observe Russian troops mass and maneuver at Ukraine’s huge borders, an esoteric group of investigative journalists and army consultants are specializing in an ominous “Z” that has began showing on army {hardware} heading in the direction of Ukraine.
Video posted on social media has proven lots of extra tanks, communications automobiles and rocket launchers bearing down on the border. Lots of these captured on digital camera have been painted with a “Z” inside a big white sq..
Bellingcat reporter Aric Toler, says his group has been monitoring Russian army symbols for the final eight years, however they’ve “no concept what they [the Zs] are” and haven’t seen them earlier than. “So, assume the worst, I suppose/worry,” he wrote on Twitter.
Some, like Russian protection coverage guru Rob Lee, whose social media followers have grown exponentially because of his eager dissemination of what’s occurring, believes the image could check with contingents assigned to Ukraine areas. “It seems Russian forces close to the border are portray markers, on this case “Z”, on automobiles to determine totally different activity forces or echelons,” he tweeted this weekend.
Others have speculated Russia is borrowing a play utilized in World Warfare II by allies who used symbols to keep away from pleasant hearth accidents since most Ukraine tanks are Soviet period and simply confused with Russia’s fleet. There may be additionally hypothesis that the “Z” might stand for Russian enemy no. 1: Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky, who has vowed he received’t be drawn into motion by the saber rattling round his nation.
To additional confuse issues, “Z” is just not a letter in Russia’s Cyrillic alphabet.
Whereas the phenomenon of what some have dubbed the “Zorro Squad” is comparatively new, the specter of a Russian invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine is beginning to develop outdated. Late Saturday, a large explosion blew up a Luhansk fuel pipeline in japanese Ukraine in an incident the top of the corporate referred to as “sabotage.”
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After attending the Munich Safety Convention, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Sunday that Europe was about to face its “greatest battle since 1945,” claiming that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s plan “has already in some senses begun.”
“You’re taking a look at not simply an invasion by the east, however coming down from the north, down from Belarus and really encircling Kyiv,” Johnson advised the BBC. “Individuals want to know the sheer price in human life that might entail.”
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