Russian military vehicles continue to gather a few kilometers from the border with Ukraine. They all have a particularity, a hand-painted ‘Z’ on the outside. But what does it mean? Jesús Manuel Pérez Triana, security and defense analyst, explains it to laSexta: “They are what are called ‘friend-enemy identification marks’. A symbol is painted so that friendly allied units can identify you.”
However, on this occasion it has been observed that each of these vehicles has these ‘Z’s drawn with different dimensions. “It seems that a very generic order has been given, have them paint a letter ‘Z’. What happens is that nobody will have said: ‘Paint a letter ‘Z’ in white that has a standard width and height”, Pérez Triana has continued detailing. Precisely, unlike in other conflicts.
The example, the Gulf war, where the American vehicles carried an inverted ‘V’, all the same size. However, it is a detail to take into account, as Jesús Manuel Pérez Triana has warned: “That the Russians have begun to draw signs of identification… If Russia bluffs, they will try to make that bluff as believable as possible.“. At the moment, there are those who still believe that this war is avoidable.
Source: Lasexta
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