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Maybe Israel or Ukraine if they keep "regular communication". On Russian side friend is able to text like once every few weeks I think because of jamming and internet shutdown at the border.

And "diverting somebody away from combat" for this kinda reason sounds not like russian army.

And they saying it is "defensive existential war" is another thing, if this turns out to be Russia GrapheneOS would be on my personal blacklist forever



We made it obvious we were talking about Ukraine and have since explicitly confirmed it due to lack of further need to avoid specifying it.

See the response at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583672.


What was the need exactly?


He was originally assigned to an infantry role and we made it public in the first place with the goal of getting that changed. The primary audience for what we posted was Ukrainian military leadership. It was clear to Ukrainians we were talking about their country, which was all we needed. We did not want our post to be interpreted as a political statement against a Ukrainian policy. It would have been incredibly counterproductive. We also didn't want to attract unnecessary attention from pro-Putin people, but plenty showed up to troll on X and harass our team via email regardless.




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