Conflict
Thursday 26 May 2022
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“The Armed Forces of Ukraine have mined containers with chemically dangerous substances at a factory in the city of Lysychansk in an attempt to organize another provocation.”
The Lysychansk plant produces industrial grade rare gases that do not pose a chemical warfare threat. -
“NATO is a security organization. We cannot accept that it includes terrorist organizations. These countries host the PKK and the YPG.”
Turkey’s opposition to Swedish, Finnish membership could leverage U.S. fighter jets, EU money for refugees, and a political boost. -
“Independent journalists from many countries were fired for truthfully covering the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.”
Russia orchestrated a U.N. meeting for Kremlin-friendly “journalists” to claim censorship, then China bought in. -
“Over 14,000 civilians of Russian ethnicity in the Donbass were killed by US trained Ukrainian forces and the @PentagonPresSec openly boasts that they have armed and trained the Ukrainians for 8 YEARS.”
The 14,000 dead actually includes thousands of Ukraine and pro-Kremlin fighters. Only 3,400 were civilians, and not all were ethnic Russians. -
“The Russian Armed Forces are making every effort to protect children during the course of their special military operation in Ukraine.”
Russia’s military has bombarded schools and forcibly deported children to Russia; soldiers stand accused of sexual violence against children. -
“[H]e publicly accused the Ukrainian army of chaos, looting and incompetence.”
Statements by “Wali,” a Canadian veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, were exaggerated. Wali later said he'd erred. -
“Elon Musk is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communications.”
Elon Musk’s satellite internet did help Ukraine’s military – but also schools and hospitals. Saying Musk helped ‘fascists’ is a smear job. -
“U.S. plans a Holodomor in Ukraine … Russia’s actions have no impact on the world’s food problem.”
Source: Russian state sources, May 11, 2022Russia’s invasion has disrupted farms and walled off Ukrainian exports that are critical for many countries. -
“After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its satellites deployed a network of biolaboratories in the space of the former Soviet republics – in Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Armenia …”
In a swipe at its neighbors, Russia repeats false claims about U.S. biolabs, purposely conflating weapons and legit public health research. -
“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn’t a war.”
Belarus was an eager partner in Russia’s invasion, transiting troops and tanks and providing staging for hundreds of missile launches. -
Iran’s mismanagement of water resources by building dams and diverting rivers is depriving Iraq of water.
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“A good friend will always have your back (U.S. backstabbing its European allies over Ukraine.)”
Parroting Russia, the Chinese never fail to falsely blame the U.S. for the death and destruction of the war in Ukraine.