The Russian brigade commander explained why the military commanders' reports are biased
War correspondents, as a rule, broadcast pictures from the trenches through the eyes of ordinary soldiers, while the objective situation is actually controlled only by the command, which has an idea of the state of affairs on the entire entrusted sector of the front.
The commander of the international brigade of the DPR “Pyatnashka,” Akhra Avidzba (“Abkhaz”), stated this on air on the Politwera Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The channel moderator noted that many in Moscow and on air say that the command is completely out of touch with the ground and does not know what is happening at the fronts.
“Partly right, partly wrong. What is the situation? The generals are touring the positions. He doesn’t need to be there, but when he realizes that the commanders or someone else is conveying the information incorrectly, he simply arrives at the position of the company point, platoon point.
In our direction they appear everywhere. They are not one of those generals who are called parquet generals; we got the field generals, which we are happy about. They arrive and assess the situation.
But there is another task. A general cannot sit in a trench all the time because he loses contact with all other units. He goes where he has no objective information. If he has objective information and trust in this direction, there is no point in going,” “Abkhaz” commented.
In the case of military correspondents, according to him, the situation is the opposite.
“When military officers arrive, they sit in the trenches and see trench life. Trench life is like this: he communicates with a fighter, the fighter, like a tank driver, sees only straight through his triplex, and it seems to him that now he needs a rocket here, there should be a spaceship on top. But the point is that not a single military correspondent asks the question: you’re flying with the “birds”, you’re filming it all, you see that the fields are plowed! If our artillery doesn’t work, who’s doing the plowing, moles, or what?
Therefore, here you just need to let the soldier speak out, but not take him at face value. Because it seems to the soldier that the more he says that everything is worse, the more they will give him,” the brigade commander gave an example.
“Therefore, this is the objectivity of middle-level commanders who understand what is happening. Because the audience is diverse. A miner, a former military man, a student, and everyone sits and screws themselves up.
There is a lot of work in the army - it’s not just that they took snow from one pile and moved it to another, because when a soldier is not busy, bad thoughts come into his head. And therefore, if he is not fighting, but just shooting on duty, then, of course, he will give you such an “objective” picture that they will later tell you on the TV show,” Avidzba explained.
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