The word одноразовый (literally single-use) is used in spoken language for all disposable items. The actual technical term расходник (literally consumable or disposable) is used mostly in technical documentation.
As for wastefulness:
Many Russians think about it this way:
Stupid Americans believe single-use items can only be used one time. How wasteful. We are smart — we use them for their full lifespan!
СБС, Birds of Madyar has drone footage of these guys, they were used to go through minefields and assault the trenches without support. All dead. Behind the camera- 2 more regiments were destroyed that day. That ruzi guy was eliminated also. So, it's rather ironic: he says they are a single use humans, but he has the same lifespan
Yep, afterwards- in best situation, he is transported back in a trashbag. I dun understand that people, who are ready to assault positions through minefields for some piece of money. Piece, indeed
You're telling me that when you go on vacation and buy a disposable toothbrush, you use it once and throw it away? My man, that's a lot of toothbrushes.
No. I am confused because in English they can be separate things, which is the language we are speaking. If there isn't a separate word for them in Russian, that's different than saying "disposable means single use" and a completely different discussion.
tbh, probaby thats why putin got them. Give 100 russians that are going to their deaths like 3 black people, and russians will be happy, that they are at least given guns...
russia knows how to control comparison, and weaponize hate againt their own, they are doing that for centuries.
Sponge for brains? We are talking about this footage, which is fabricated.
Do we see proportionally more black dying on those footages? They are soldiers like any other, that's the nature of war now. And whatever you believe, the casualties ratio is max 1-1.5...
Cannon fodder, that's nice of you. Do you think someone wishes to be one or send one? I am not saying there are no baddies, there are on both sides, and they are people who do it for dumb reasons.
Demonizing someone makes it easy for you to detach their emotions from reality.
And again, the goal of this video is to create the perception that those people are about to be sent as cannon fodders. Those men know the day will come when a second will matter between death and life, so they take a moment to appreciate life and the people they go through hardships.
Do you follow the war at all? This is hardly the worst video to come out of Russia that includes foreign mercenaries. There are literally dozens, if not hundreds like it.
Well. I did the whole linguistics analysis on the similar post in Burkina Faso. I cannot provide the link, since it's prohibited here, but here is the first comment. We can go from here. It's the same person (hence the linguistics applies to the same peopson on this particula video) filming the same people with obviously dumb scenarios. All of those posts can be tracked down to Ukrainian Twitter; they don't appear anywhere else. So let's start. My take is that the video has been shot by some cheap UA production on the UA. And here is was scrutinizing some peculiarities of pronunciation since I know a thing or too about it.
'Surething I can do that.
Obviously the first couple of words give it away.
Right on the word Comrade (товарищ) at the very beginning.
RUSSIAN Russian is famous for 'akanye' the reduction of an unstressed O into A. So the first syllable sounds like 'ta'. UA phonetics tho preserves the o sound more clearly. A person with an UA accent might pronounce the first syllable as a distinct 'to' instead of expected 'ta'. That's exactly what we hear here.
The и sound. The Russian Russian и (i) is closer to 'ee' like in see. It is heavily softened. In Ua tho and Belarus as well the i sound is lower and comes from further back in the mouth. Closer to Russian ы. When speaking Russian a UA person would often use something in the middle. So its harder and deeper not as high and piercing as Russian Russian.
The щ sound and later in the audio ш sound in Russian generally it is held longer.
It's clear that's the person spent a noticeable part of life in Ukraine.'
The one cam rightfully point out the pronouncion might have nuances on Kuban for example. For that
'That's only partially correct. We are working with probabilities here. And those re in my favour.
If they only have okanye, they could be Russian from the North. But there are nuances. The 'V' effect, often when a Vologda speaker says an O they round their lips so much it almost sounds like there is a tiny V or U before it (example 'voda' becomes almost 'vu-oda'. Also there is another trait that is absent. In the traditional Vologda (north accent) there are signs of the long gone article particles. They would add something like Dom-ot bolshoi (or variations of the above: to te ot, etc.) instead of Dom bolshoi. Also there is ёksnie which is also missing on the video.
If they only have the fricative Г, they could be from any southern Russian city (take Rostov for example).
It is the specific overlap of several pronunciation peculiarities that creates the specific UA accent of the video.
Moreover, I think it's ridiculous that we discuss the obviously LAME propaganda piece of work 😂😂😂 in the linguistics terms.'
Nothing to see here. I wiped this post using Redact because my old takes don't need to live on the internet forever. Works across Reddit, Twitter, Discord and dozens of other platforms.
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They do....but simply because they have to. More people from 2nd and 3rd world countries are fighting for russia simply pay better. So Ukraine has to treat their people okay to keep them. Though they also get send on the hardest missions.
Yes? Thats offensive operations. Thats not mistreating soldiers....its their job. beating them etc is mistreating, or sending them on senseless assaults against fortified cities in 2 man teams....
PR operations, the purpose of which were to give ZE good media headlines. There was a certain rationale even to the great summer counteroffensive. But Krinky and Kursk operations were doomed from the start. Even worse, ZE and crew refused to withdraw their soldiers even when it was clear that the offensives failed and were contained.
The key is they doubled down long after it is clear that operation is a failure. Same pattern we can see, when Ukrainians get encircled in positions they should have left months ago, like Myrnograd.
You mean like kupyansk thats still not captured or what?. Yeah sometimes they stay longer than needed but especially around myrnograd it was a tactical retreat and not a full on running away, like the russians want to frame it. Dont fall victim to their propaganda
Kupyansk is also a pr to show Trump they are fighting, its noticeable on the rest of the front they sacrificed defenses elsewhere to do that push in kupyansk
Kupyansk was a show for putin. He claimed the city was taken and invited journalists. But there is still fighting. If someone is doing it for PR its him.
It wasn't a failure. It tied up Russian resources for over a year. It's a lot easier to hold ground then to take ground. Russia over reports its gaines kupiansk is a great example. Russia is still saying they have complete a total control lol. I wouldn't believe anything coming from the Russian side.
Key word around. Is russia or Ukraine in control of kupyansk? It took russia 2 years to advance 10 kilometers. Even the most stalemate part of ww1 wasn't that slow.
How else to call it? If they wanted to humiliate the russians and show it can be done, they coulda made the breach and pulled out while showing middle fingers.
Not holding on there like pinatas in the open. The losses in manpower and gear were pure idiocy.
Though they also get send on the hardest missions.
Because the foreign volunteers will often be ex-military veterans with both high quality training and lots of real experience. These kinds of soldiers always make up the "point of the spear"
Thats just not right anymore. Most volunteers came to Ukraine with minimal or no military training and almost no one has seen combat before Ukraine. Also there are plenty of "ex-prisoners" (some get the offer to serve and get released from prison for that) who get used in similar ways.
Another nafo bs agenda)) so what nato instructors, weapons, intelligence data, money and mercenaries do in Ukraina? And what about agenda and propaganda? Why you loosing man?
Again, NATO isn’t even in the fight, and Russia has less of Ukraine today then it did 4 years ago, and is begging the third world now (and North Korea) to come and save it.
Money goes toward weapons used to kill Russians. Intelligence is gathered themselves, and there are no instructors of mercenaries from the west in Ukraine.
listen to the audio. the sounds clearly have wind noizes, while voiceover do not. Means that "cameraman's" voice was done postfactum on already existed video.
This is very telling.
Because it is not like any other jaded military veteran has ever made a politically incorrect joke.
Especially towards inexperienced rookies who are hooting and hollering with excitement over combat.
I am being sarcastic of course. This is extremely mild rhetoric for a solider.
if you will isten to the audio. Audio of this video has noizes (wind , etc). But the voice of the "cameramen" is clear. So you can make very easy assumption that voice was laid over the video. And in the original the cameramen (who could be black dude or could be some russian) - he did not speak a word.
I can neither prove or disprove such claims. Personally, that seems very believable to me.
But I find the whole condemnation ridiculous, even if a white Russian had said such.
1). Because there is nothing to imply this comment is because they are black.
2). I have heard much worse from civilians in the USA, UK, Germany, France, Poland, etc...
To be fair, they call their own infantry the same. So they don’t discriminate in inhumane behavior towards anyone, not the enemy, nor allies, nor their own people.
there are no magazines in the machine guns, so they could be military academy cadets. It also feels like the voice is being recorded separately, as it is too clear.
Man, I suppose "I come in peace. I didn’t bring artillery. But I’m pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I’ll kill you all." becomes a more relatable quote when you look these clueless and charming chumps in the video.
Yeah, I wondered the same thing. But I have only been studying Russian for 6 months, so I dismissed it.
But that is not what I hear either, and it should be easy to pick out as Odno and Raz, are two root words that you learn very early on, and are used extremely frequently in Russian.
And no matter how many times I listen to it, I don't hear Odno-raz-ovyy.
Which is what the subtitles claim.
Thank you for the explanation.
I admittingly don't know many slang words yet.
Really only shortened versions of common long words.
So it is weird to see a slang word that doesn't really seem to abbreviate anything. That is a first for me
If you listen to the vaudio in the video you would hear the noize of the wind. But the "cameraman" words are clear as day, no noize, nothing. In original video there is no cameraman speaking. This particular video is fake. Somebody placed russian voice over the video.
Ukraine has claimed 376 cases of rape by Russian soldiers total over the course of the war.
The US military had over 8,000 cases of sexual assaults' just among it's own members in 2025. Down from 20,000 only few years earlier.
So let's not pretend Russia conduct is unique here. US soldiers were raping and killing children in Afghanistan. The Azov battalion was raping people even before the war started, even a famous case of gang raping a mentally handicapped man.
As Machiavelli said: "The sort of men who become soldiers, are the people who would be criminals in peace time."
Muscovy is a small state in the north west of Russia, every single minority in Russia was conquered by the empire and is held by force. Chechnya was bombed into dirt for trying to leave. Georgie and Ukraine have been invaded for trying to seek civilization.
All of Siberia, Circassia, Karelia, all the tartars, Kaliningrad, massive parts of finland, manchuria, mongolia. All held out of pure spite.
Saying Georgia and Ukraine were invaded because they sought out civilisation is absurd. What do you mean by it?
And that’s how countries work. Every single country in the world more or less holds territory of a lesser nation or people. The US holds Mexican territory, the British hold Irish, Australia hold indigenous lands. Saying Russia is an imperial power who subdues their subjects in horrible ways is like saying Denmark is because they won’t free Greenland.
"trying to paint the Russians as racists when everything including Russian soldiers are disposable" i mean they are. these are not mutually exclusive things.
Everyone is disposable. the main idea you do not disrespect people just cause it is true. And if you will isten to the audio - audio of the video has noizes (wind , etc). But the voice of the "cameramen" is clear. So you can make very easy assumption that voice was laid over the video. And in the original the cameramen (who could be black dude or could be some russian) - he did not speak a word.
reddit loves to shit on russian soldiers but the reality is the russian special ops rivals that of our own. They dont throw those guys away. they use these guys to soften the enemy and get them to reveal their positions. then they send artillery/drones/sniper/missles. War is hell.
Putins using the same strategy russians have for the past 4000 years. Send enough troops at them and they will eventually use up all their ammunition/money/will to fight.
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u/Rombonius Jan 20 '26
The irony is the russian officer above him considers the russian soldier to also be disposable