>Russian media and social media accounts that stand for the invasion often put Z in their names or logos. That's how you can detect them.<p>What the author fails to explain (probably because he assumes his readers already know) is that Z is not in the Russian alphabet. Adding a Z to a typical account name in Russia is analogous to my adding a Ж character to my account name, i.e., not something that would ordinarily occur to a person.
Russian Leni Riefenstahl MF-er who came up with coopting Z into some kind of national symbol miscalculated badly. In Ukraine Z is seen as opportunity for easy target practice, untrained confused cannon fodder first to desert and abandon multi million dollar military gear (like TOR SAM systems towed by farmers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD8z_kGe7rs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD8z_kGe7rs</a>). Z is failure impersonified.<p>This is what Z looks like one week into the war <a href="https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1500417894491983876" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/LostWeapons/status/1500417894491983876</a> a hastily assembled backup convoy of 30-50 year old cars, busses, buhankas and chinese trucks.