To deal with the problem of homeless animals in Russia, a local Communist Party politician has a “remarkable” solution. He suggested using homeless dogs as suicide bombers to “blow up tanks” in Ukraine. American magazine ‘Newsweek’ The proposal did not make it, but animals do not seem to escape the horrors of war.
Since the war in Ukraine, remarkable statements by Russians have regularly surfaced. “Just drown those Ukrainian kids” or “Throw one bomb on them and you’re done”. Russian TV personalities always try to outdo each other with bombastic statements.
Local politicians also often attract attention with radical views related to the war. For example, Viktor Makarov, a local Communist Party deputy in the southern Russian city of Oryol, made headlines with his “solution” for tackling the problem of homeless animals in Russia. He suggested using such dogs as suicide bombers to “blow up tanks” in Ukraine.
The ruling caught the attention of the independent Russian news site Meduza. “A communist deputy wants to train stray dogs to run at Ukrainian tanks like suicide bombers,” Meduza editor-in-chief Kevin Rothrock wrote on Twitter over the weekend. The proposal was voted down in the regional parliament by his colleagues because, among other things, there were too many “logistical questions”.
War dogs
It is also unknown whether the proposal reached the Kremlin. In any case, the Americans noticed and reacted very cynically. “I don’t know why they see the need to train dogs to do this. They are currently asking Russian soldiers to do the same,” Mark Hertling, former US Army general in Europe, tweeted. US political scientist Rajan Menon told Newsweek that “this may be even more evidence that Russians are pulling out all the stops to be victorious” in their war with Ukraine.
Despite the failure of the proposal, dogs cannot escape war either. For example, they are often used by the Ukrainian army to make liberated areas safe for residents who return. They are trained to recognize the smell of gunpowder, after which deminers defuse the explosives. In times of war, army services often rely on the help of four-legged friends. A dog’s sense of smell is one thousand to ten thousand times better developed than that of a human.
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