Russian military bloggers began to claim on Telegram that ethnic Tuvans and Chechens began speaking in their native language so that Ukrainian intercept units would not understand them, since the Russian military does not have secure communications.

One of the Russian military bloggers claims that the Tuvan units that participated in the capture of Lyman, which was captured by the Russian armed forces at the end of May, coded their communication, speaking to each other in their native language, “so that their movements and plans are not revealed to the enemy.”

“Oh, this insidious Russian multinationalism!” – he states with pleasure. The Tuvinians are a Turkic people living in the south of Siberia. They are historically known as one of the “Urianhai”, from the Mongolian name.

It is also interesting that Chechen militants also resorted to this practice, although on July 9, Ramzan Kadyrov stated that after the fall of Lysyansk and the “liberation” of Luhansk region, he withdrew his fighters from Ukraine.

However, the blogger is probably referring to the fighting that took place at the beginning of the war, when Chechens took part in attacks on Mariupol, Severodonetsk and other cities of Ukraine.

In the first days of the war, the Chechens also took part in attempts to capture the strategic airport Gostomel near Kyiv, in the battles here, the right-hand man of Ramzan Kadyrov, General Magomed Tushaev, died. Tushaev was also the first general of the Russian army to die during the war in Ukraine.

Secure communication is one of the big problems of the Russian army

One of the Russian military bloggers mentions that during World War II, American troops used Choctaw and Navajo Indians as radio operators to transmit encrypted messages between themselves.

“Their Indian language was almost impossible for an outsider to learn, so the ‘cipher’ of Indian words was never broken,” he noted in Telegram.

This was reported by military analyst Rob Lee from the Institute for Foreign Policy Studies on his Twitter page.

As early as March, it became apparent that the lack of transceivers and other secure communication systems was one of the factors that contributed to blocking the Russian invasion in the first weeks of the war.

In this regard, it is instructive that Vitaly Gerasimov, one of the first Russian generals killed in Ukraine, was eliminated by Ukrainian forces after allegedly making a phone call from an unsecured line revealing his position.

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