I believe it was (or at least speculated) to be to help prevent friendly fire, as Ukraine and Russia often had the same types of vehicles, legacy of the cold war and being on relatively good terms until Maidan 2014. Also paramilitary Donbass units with random improvised vehicles and for any defecting troops or captured functional vehicles. Similar to the white armbands worn by Russian soldiers.
Sometimes the symbols have other features (like being in a circle/square) or chevrons etc. That’s probably to tell different units apart.
What is Putin’s Z armband? I bet it’s something racist
Lib have tried for a while now to make Z the new swastika
The letter Z was used to mark Russian vehicles at the start of the war (no idea why), it’s now kinda become a logo for the Russian army in general.
I believe it was (or at least speculated) to be to help prevent friendly fire, as Ukraine and Russia often had the same types of vehicles, legacy of the cold war and being on relatively good terms until Maidan 2014. Also paramilitary Donbass units with random improvised vehicles and for any defecting troops or captured functional vehicles. Similar to the white armbands worn by Russian soldiers.
Sometimes the symbols have other features (like being in a circle/square) or chevrons etc. That’s probably to tell different units apart.
I think Z has something to do with the word victory in russian
Lib sources with lib slants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_of_Saint_George
https://www.historians.org/perspectives-article/st-georges-ribbon-april-2023/
“Zа победу!” (“For victory!”) and “Zадача будет Vыполнена!” (“The Mission will be fulfilled!”)
The “Z” style is for the Z in the phrases. A Rallying cry for this war again against the fascists.
Of course the west is doing a lot of
in trying to brand it as the “Zwastika” because poor innocent 