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70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]
Tragic event.
When the Ukrainian government routinely lies about what is hit, it becomes hard to know if something was tragic or not.
This is the problem with having an information strategy of reflexively accusing Russia of war crimes every time something is hit.
Yesterday, they really stepped into some deep sh*t with the strike on Poltava. A quick recap:
1) Russia hit the 179th Signals Training Center in Poltava. This facility was used to prepare experts in satellite and tropospheric communications, electronic warfare, signals intelligence, etc - in brief a very important target for Russia.
2) Despite this being the third year of the war, Ukraine practiced minimal caution, and there were hundreds of people in the building.
3) Current casualty estimates are 60+ persons dead, and approx 300 injured. Many of the wounded remain in critical condition.
4) Photos from the site began appearing within minutes of the strike. Evident in all the photos was the nature of the target, and the fact that the scattered bodies were all in military uniform.
5) Being an idiot, Zelensky took to social media HOURS LATER, and accused Russia of hitting an "educational facility" and a "hospital".
6) Lazy and brainless Western journalists (who unlike Ukrainian journalists are under no obligation to spread Kiev's falsehoods), reprinted the lie.
7) After a few hours more, everyone and their grandma began to piece together that the "educational institution" was a military training facility, and that the nearest hospital is approximately 1.5 kilometers away.
8) Angry Western journalists and analysts (who have been made to look like idiots, again), begin posting on Twitter messages along the lines of: "events like these can easily erode public trust in future Ukrainian claims of Russian strikes on civilian targets. That can be disastrous for Ukraine."
9) Russians like me become depressed, because we have been talking about this for years.
The Poltava strike is a perfect example, because of the chronology.
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