A coordinated online campaign has reportedly encouraged users to alter fuel station information on digital maps across Russia, creating confusion among drivers.
The activity involves changing station statuses by marking locations with available fuel as empty or showing closed stations as operational.
Supporters of the campaign claim the effort is designed to disrupt travel decisions, increase uncertainty, and create additional pressure around fuel availability.
There will be some who have this reaction, but it takes one hell of a PR spin to make them think that the Ukranians, after 4 years of siege and bombings throughout their territory, aren’t justified in whatever payback they might be able to give.
It elevates the Ukranian people from “irrelevant, has no impact on me” to something to at least think about.
Why so? I think it’s the intent that matters more than the magnitude. As Russian, I cheer whenever Ukraine bombs military targets on Russia’s territory (or anything that’s boosting Russia’s GDP for that matter) and I find US’s ban on doing that to be outright criminal. A drone blew up an apartment building in my home city with no military targets in sight, and I truly believe it was a result of miscalculation, jamming or some other fault, same with Russian drones on Kiyv and cluster munitions dropped on Donbas. But don’t you dare spit in my coffee while we’re both sit in the same boat as refuges of war in Tbilisi, and I’m not going to shit through anyone’s car sunroof regardless if the plate says RU or UA either. Planting national tensions is exactly what Putin wants, just so that he could one day say “Look, they’re all assholes, let’s go fuck em up” and call for full on proper mobilization instead of tiptoeing with partial ones.
You mean nukes? Our (US side) propaganda implies that full on proper mobilization happened 4 years ago and Russia is out of non-nuclear options.