How about Putin wearing a monocle, shaking his fist and going, “Mmm-MMPH!”
In a follow-up episode, not wanting to admit that his plan failed, the general in charge of the balloons orders his troops to build giant fans to blow the air back west towards Ukraine. As the Zeroes approach the Giant Fan Farm to sabotage the fans, a crack squad of Russian Oil Oligarch Troops also attack the fans, in the mistaken belief that they’re actually windmills intended to reduce Russia’s reliance on oil.
Not having allowed for the momentum of the spinning blades in their planning, the crack Oil Troopers all get killed by spinning fan debris as the fans collapse around them.
A mistranslation of the phrase “tank farm” leads the Zeroes to a location where instead of finding a large storage facility for natural gas and petroleum they instead find a depot for rusting and unrepaired military vehicles. They opt to return to Ukraine without doing anything but are later hailed as heroes for “sabotaging” the tanks and APCs which break down on their own.
A question from a viewer:
Is the show going to explain why Zelenskyy himself felt the need to kill Tony Soprano in person? Or do I have to wait for the spinoff?
There was a mix-up between “The Mafia” and “The Russian Mafia”.
Gotcha. There’s that new Giuliani documentary coming out which might cover this… Giuliani: How I broke the Italian mob (and got paid to let the Russian mafia take their place) without really trying.
Not the best title, but it gets the point across.
I so want to watch this show.
I hope they make an English version for export.
Word of “Operation Down The Hatch” leaks out to the Russian conscript troops. In a rare moment of clarity, a few realize that if they can convince the pilots air-dropping the vodka that the Ukrainians have pushed back the front lines by a few miles, the vodka will be air-dropped right to them, and so plan to do just that.
However, when aerial images of the Donbas region show up with a giant red band drawn across them labeled, “Nu Frunt Liens”, the rest of the conscripts panic, believing that their lines have collapsed, and they’ve been left behind to die by their callous officers. A massive rout develops, and the front lines actually do shift even further back.
As The Squad arrives to investigate this strange development, cases of vodka start to land all around them.
Our heros are sent on a mission to sabotage a tank brigade, sneaking through the night to search them out. They come across some tracks and follow them to where they find several tanks with their turrents firmly lodged in a cliffside.
We see the backstory: the tanks were traveling at night, so the brigade commander called up google maps’ turn-by-turn navigation on his phone. But the voice was only in English, and there was only one soldier who had any English, so he struggled to translate the instructions and ended up leading the tanks into the cliff where they became stuck in the most useless way possible.
I can visualize the last scene and the stinger for this episode clear as day. Well done!
I don’t want to hijack the hijack, but do we need the Ukrainian commandos at all? Isn’t it really just Putin’s Putzes? A different guest star can be put in charge of these idiots every week, but after each failure he is called back to Moscow and never heard from again. Of course the idiots are intentionally screwing things up. They don’t care about Ukraine, they just hate Putin.
Yes, yes we do, absolutely. They are there to depict “we are fighting to win this war while the Russians are doing our job for us.” Putin’s Putzes just lacks the same kick (and subtly makes us think Vlad has equipment).
Run the credits like Police Squad! Every week the Russian Commander never makes it through the opening credits. Or have every scene with the Commander done with a different actor in the same episode. Sorta like Igor’s hump.
I do like the idea of something like this. In the opening the credit for the last guy is shown as he is dragged away, followed by the new actor and his credit. Not so sure about a new one in every scene. Some of the guest stars could do a good job in the role, maybe occasionally getting a second chance to screw up before disappearing in a two part episode. Or occasionally showing up later after their disappearance due to a bureaucratic mix-up or returning from a Siberian vacation.
Well, it’s a Ukrainian production, so…
I mean, I’ve watched at least one episode of one Ukrainian TV show, but literally never a Russian TV show. So if you’re looking for international appeal…
Kind of like #2 in The Prisoner.
Pale and hollow-eyed. “The windows… the windows…”
Ok, but I wasn’t talking about no Ukrainians fighting the war on the show, just that a permanent cast of Ukrainian commandoes that in the end never accomplish anything is unnecessary. There are plenty of ways to highlight the Ukrainians and their heroic war effort, but I would think the point of the show is to laugh at the Russians.
Well, you’re welcome to cast your own show that I’m sure will be denounced as a cheap rip-off hailed as a great artistic success 
Better Call Zaul.
Think of the commandos as a beloved McGuffin.