soldiers stealing literal toilets from Ukranian homes.
Have you ever wondered regarding the logistics of shipping a toilet from a war front, to a city thousands of kilometers in the rear?
Ever since Ukrainian propaganda began talking about stolen toilets, I've wondered about this myself.
I imagine it this way:
1) A Russian soldier, amazed at this marvel of modern sanitation (despite Russia having an 18% higher rate of connection to centralized sewers than Ukraine), quietly sneaks away from the rest of his unit and goes to work at unscrewing a toilet.
2) Once he's done, he radios his brothers in arms, who arrive on an armored personnel carrier.
3) Now atop an APC, the war trophy travels some tens of kilometers back to the rear.
4) Quietly, diplomatically, the soldier approaches an officer at company headquarters. He bribes him with some money, to have the toilet hauled either by truck or his officer's car, to the other side of the border.
5) Meanwhile, his brother has been driving several thousand kilometers from Buryatia, to receive this very important delivery in Belgorod or Rostov Oblast.
6) Safely in possession of the toilet, his brother begins the trip back - all the while thinking what monumental good fortune this toilet acquisition was.
All in all, it should have cost no more than a few hundreds dollars to execute these logistics (never mind, that a toilet can be bought for $150).
At least, this is how I imagine it.
For a washing machine, I imagine a helicopter lift would be more suitable. If it's a bathtub, or a nice bedroom set, better to go big and ask the paratroopers to borrow their cargo plane.