Kyiv’s ammunition shortage is so acute that a soldier who hunts for Russian shells—and makes his own bombs—has become an important supplier for some units
Known by the call sign “Mad Max,” he has supplied at least 14,000 shells to brigades across Ukraine’s east, plus 4,000 munitions for aerial drones to drop on Russian troops and vehicles, he estimates.
scratches head in confusion
A hulking figure, with an unruly dark beard and bright green eyes, Polyukhovich has been fighting for eight years in eastern Ukraine, where the war has been raging since the covert Russian invasion in 2014.
Lmao wut. We couped their government and Crimea voted to leave ukraine (a few decades after ukraine couped their independent government).
Cope harder liberals.
I dunno what it is, but every time they (media) give a nickname to someone, its entirely a fabricated person. I noticed this in the CHAZ reporting and also in Haiti and Ukraine
Like, posting pictures, describing how this dude operates, describing what his house looks like, and describing what the outside of his lab is going to look like... there's no way this article is talking about a real thing.
All a drone needs to start looking for is "Dudes walking around places where 1) Russian forces have moved away from and 2) had indirect fire assets present", "houses near these places with piles of mortars, mines, and artillery shells", and "Buildings with Skull and Crossbones or Mad Max" spray painted on them to call in a glide bomb.
This makes more sense when it's Hamas getting their explosives from Israeli duds than when it's the dumping ground of half the munitions the West had stockpiled
I saw a Ukrainian patriot at the gun range last week trying to sneakily stuff brass from the floor into his pants and casually leaving. Realized it was steel ammo and couldn’t be reloaded and shot the range master