Do the nitwits and failsons at the UKMOD not realize that Russia is not Afghanistan or Somalia? Russia is a developed nation with one of the largest armament industries on the planet. This is literally rehashed, long-debunked Nazi propaganda from WW2 that depicted the Soviets as using pitchforks instead of rifles. Who is actually going to fall for this?
At this point I genuinely cannot tell if they are all failsons who literally fell for their own propaganda or are desperate to convince liberals that everything is OK while their nation falls apart.
Well the field shovel is usually part of the standard issue in the field so technically they are fighting "with" shovels.
The propaganda mill really is just take something normal and sensationalize it into some exception. Like flybys or balloons or ship movements or generic script kiddies / spammers aka "hackers" exist in [NATION WE DON'T LIKE NOW] and all of them are either direct state actors or connected to state actors.
Which justifies more military spending and sanctions.