THROWN TO THE WOLVES
Chilling reason behind words ‘Wolverines’ scrawled on destroyed Russian tanks as Ukrainian resistance fight back
THIS is the powerful reason why the word "Wolverines" has been scrawled on destroyed Russian tanks across Ukraine.
The striking tag has appeared on hundreds of abandoned Russian vehicles, and has come to symbolise something menacing for Mad Vlad's troops.
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One photo posted on Twitter by journalist Nolan Peterson showed a burnt-out Russian T-72 tank on a roadside near Kyiv.
Along the barrel, Ukrainians had scrawled the word "Wolverines" in white paint.
Last week, photos surfaced of a Russian BMP-2 infantry fighting vehicle marked with the same tag and a burnt-out BTR-80 armoured personnel carrier near the capital.
Pictures of Russian tanks daubed with the word have flooded social media, as people realised it was a direct reference to the 1984 Cold War-era movie Red Dawn.
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The post-apocalyptic film sees Patrick Swayze as one of a group of high school students turned guerrilla fighters who battle against a fictional Soviet invasion of the US.
The gang name themselves Wolverines, a reference to their high school football team, and leave behind graffiti tags whenever they strike in their hometown of Calumet, Colorado.
The fictitious occupation ends in disaster for the Soviet and Cuban occupiers.
Russian troops have faced stiff Ukrainian resistance since the war began 52 days ago.
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Online forums are awash with striking clips of Ukrainian drones obliterating Russian military hardware.
Recent footage shows the utter devastation inflicted on a multi-million dollar tank from what is believed to be a $10,000 drone.
In the clip the drone hangs menacingly in the air as it appears to eye up its Russian target - which could be a Russian T-72 tank.
It then drops a bomb which plummets towards the oblivious war machine before a perfect strike rips apart the tank in a massive inferno.
The blitzing comes as evil Putin has now lost an astonishing 20,000 troops in Ukraine.
The Russian despot has also lost an eighth general in fighting in his unwinnable war.
Major General Vladimir Frolov, deputy commander of the 8th Combined Arms Army was killed in battle and laid to rest with full military honours in St Petersburg.
The exact details of how and where he died were not disclosed.
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