it says, stop the war, in the first three days, 4300 russian soldiers died. why is this not being talked about on tv? here s another, price tag 80 rubles. the description here, says russian war forces have destroyed 80% of the city of mariupol, watch for? i ll show you one more, this one has a pry tag, eight rubles it says quote, i haven t been in touch with my sister for ukraine for eight days, i don t know what s happened to her, stop the war. the group that put these out, implicitly encouraging russians to print them out and put them up on supermarket shelves. in that country. the group that put this out said on their telegram channel, by replacing something very routine with something alien unusual, we show that there is not a single place in our country that will not be affected by the war. we do not let people simply close our eyes to what is happening. again, these are russians,
else was pulling out. leroy marlins omen ploy ease were reportedly horrified by this decision and protested to the company. but now, as part of the protests about how this company has behaved, leroy merlin stores are being transformed, one by one, into little well harbored surprises for shoppers. about how to think of that business and what they sell. for killing, corpse thin, for sweeping away your guilt. this is just in the last few days. last week, we learned about this effort and pull. and it got picked up in the wall street journal and elsewhere. but now, in a much more risk environment to do something like this. we re also seeing russians do it as well. russian citizens inside russia, where putin has made a criminal offense to criticize this war, look what they re doing now. this is inside a russian grocery store. you can see on the shelf there, that s instant coffee on the top shelf there, 400 rubles means it s about five bucks a
trying and they re being arrested for it. but they re still trying. in ukraine today, we learned that ukrainian four assists have succeeded in stopping one part of the russian war. one part that apparently maybe threatening us as well. this is an interesting story that has evolved, sort of scary direction over the course of the day today. the first reports came in this morning that russia had finally unleashed one of the things that everybody didn t kind of waiting to see from them in this war. they d unleash, or at least try to unleash, a major cyberattack against ukraine. russia, after all, has you cyberattacks against ukraine like for target practice in recent years. you will recall, they shut down the electrical gate in ukraine in the winter of 2015 and then they did it again in the winter 2016. the united states government, u.s. justice department actually indicted six russian military intelligence officers, six gru officers in 2020. we even have their fbi wanted posters from that
group of russians. that are doing what they can to try to speak out against the war, and as you see, there is a whole bunch of these, like 15 of these that they ve made. but you can see how under the radar they. are they look just like the kind of price tags you see on supermarket shelves, you would notice unless you look carefully. but if you look carefully and, i mean look, we translated these. this one, the price tag is 20 rubles and waiting for sale there, it says the russian army has destroyed over 20 medical establishment and ukraine. here s another one, price tag of zero rubles, that might stand out to you. but then once the description, here people i know are hiding from russian bombings in the metro, zero of them are nazis, stop the war. here is one that lifted at 4300 rubles, roughly about 50 bucks. it says, stop the war, in the first three days, 4300 russian soldiers died. why is this not being talked
this past friday night at about 5:00 p.m. friday night local time. the reason it didn t happen is apparently ukrainian authorities caught it in time and they defeated the attack and disclosed the details about it publicly today. and that raises all sorts of interesting questions about, how good the russians are at this, we know they ve been very ambitious about this, they put a lot of resources into it, how good are they at this, particularly against an enemy who knows they re coming, and has been fighting them for a long time. there s an interesting question, as to whether the big conventional war that russia is waging and losing, whether that makes them any worse at cyber, whether that diverts resources they might otherwise be using to be good at these kinds of attacks and raises interesting questions about how good the ukrainian defenses are, particularly after they been hit by the russians so many times in the past and they have been invaded and the world is on their side raises th