Russia's misfire: Boast of Patriot missile destruction backfires

Russian army boasted about destroying another Patriot missile launcher in Ukraine. The occupiers were so proud of this that they swiftly published the video of the missile hitting the target with an Iskander missile on the internet. However, astute observers noticed that something was off with this Patriot system. The truth will undoubtedly sadden Russians.

Alongside the conventional war on the front in Ukraine, the information war on the internet is also ongoing. Both sides of the conflict are depicting their version of events. This conflict is the best-documented war in history.

Moscow's propaganda is doubling and tripling efforts to convince Russian society that the term "second army in the world" is not just an empty phrase. Russians continually boast about their "successes" on the front.

The latest video posted by the Russians is their real pride. The video material shows that they targeted and then immediately destroyed an extremely valuable Patriot missile launcher with AN/MPQ-65 radar. Keen internet users spotted that something was amiss with this "Patriot".

It turns out that the Russians targeted and shot down... wooden dummies that the Ukrainians set up as bait. Made of wood and painted, these were designed to act as a decoy for the Russians. It seems the mission was 100% successful.

The Russians sent a missile to an empty field and shot down the wooden dummy with an Iskander missile. Had it been a real Patriot system with radar, then the Ukrainians would be counting losses in millions of dollars. Depending on the number of missiles in the system, the losses could even amount to tens of millions of dollars.

Ukraine lost the wooden dummies of the American system. Russians lost one Iskander missile, valued at at least three million dollars. And they became a laughingstock because they insisted that they "hunted down a Patriot system".