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.
Definitely. Russia was calculating from the assumption that brutality would accelerate their victory. If you have the power to just take the land, whether you’ve got the moral high ground doesn’t matter: the others will have to do business with you anyway. If they had indeed won quickly, the whole thing would have been swept under the rug. But they haven’t, their assumption was proven wrong, their brutality hasn’t had the intended effect and now they’re stuck in a prolonged conflict of their own making while giving the international community plenty of reasons to condemn and impose sanctions and all that.
So Russia’s brutality is a gamble that the dynamic laid out in the previous comment won’t apply to them.
Ukraine never had that illusion. They never had the power to plan from a position of such strength. To play it “safe” is strategically critical for them. They have to be circumspect. It’s good they are, of course.