More on Troops and Kursk

This particular story has been making the rounds, and several versions exist. The short of it is that it seems these two soldiers caught the commander making some cash on the side selling drugs to the troops. That this is happening is not a particular surprise.

Like all armies, drug use is officially frowned upon in the Russian military. However, like every army at war, let’s say there is some illegal traffic in banned substances. However, usually, commanders engaged in these acts don’t take revenge on troops to the point of getting them killed. So, the story of Ernst and Goodwin has a few interesting twists, especially since they are dead now:

“Don’t go serve in the Ministry of Defense. Never in your life. Especially in the Donetsk mobilization regiments. There’s no place for intelligence here and you won’t achieve anything good here. Your task here is to kick the bucket and make the regiment commander look good when he reports to the top. These are his personal serfs and that’s exactly how he handles them.”

The famous aerial reconnaissance officer Dmitry Lyskovsky, call sign “Goodwin”, author of the Z-channel “North Wind”, and his partner Sergei Gritsai, call sign “Ernest”, recorded a dying video, which they promised to publish if they did not return from the “one-way infantry assault” on which their command sent them.