Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Why is Russia bombing civilians?" video.

Ander's is spot on about why you won't see pictures of important installations on social media etc. I've lived here for a decade (Ukrainian wife) and way back at the start of the invasion in 2022, the train station of our home town in Donbas, not far from our flat, got hit. I had some pictures, and was going to show some buddies on IRC and my wife accosted me and told me never to do that, or the Russians might find out how well (or bad) they did. But since then I adhere to OPSEC and that's how all us civilians in Ukraine do our bit. E.g. if someone lives in Kyiv or other big city near an air-defence system, you don't take pictures of it and you don't talk about it. The locations are secret for obvious reasons.
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@soul0360 Indeed. Before the full scale invasion, we didn't have Marshal Law and OPSEC was not a thing I was aware of, (the only action was pot shots across those static front lines in Donbas from 2014 to 22) so it never really crossed my mind not to do dumb things like that once the entire country was affected. The wife quickly straightened me out, haha
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