Ukraine: Unsubstantiated rumours and speculation

[frogwoman]

Bizarre story right now about Putin's Health. Apparently he likes taking antler baths? (Baths with the boiled antlers of red deer)

 

[bluescreen]

Bizarre story right now about Putin's Health. Apparently he likes taking antler baths? (Baths with the boiled antlers of red deer)

It's hard to tell what's true from what's an April Fool. TBH the antler bath thing is all too credible.

 

[Sue]

Bizarre story right now about Putin's Health. Apparently he likes taking antler baths? (Baths with the boiled antlers of red deer)

I'm guessing he wrestled with the deer in a bare-chested manly manner first?

 

[frogwoman]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tellerreport.com/amp/2022-04-01-10-doctors-and-a-bath-with-deer-antlers-blood----putin-s-strange-lifestyle.S1IRXc5E7q.html

 

[frogwoman]

https://www.proekt.media/en/investigation-en/putin-health/

 

[IC3D]

Sean Penn appears to be on the gak (based on one pic) in Ukraine and hatched a cunning plan

Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine

Actor urges someone to spend $300m on ‘12 aircraft with better tech than Russian MiGs or SU’s’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Raheem]

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Sean Penn appears to be on the gak (based on one pic) in Ukraine and hatched a cunning plan

Sean Penn calls for billionaire to step up and buy aircraft for Ukraine

Actor urges someone to spend $300m on ‘12 aircraft with better tech than Russian MiGs or SU’s’

www.theguardian.com

One Hollywood actor buying one plane would be a start.

 

[Yossarian]

Bizarre story right now about Putin's Health. Apparently he likes taking antler baths? (Baths with the boiled antlers of red deer)

Popular in China and Korea as well, maybe Putin and Xi share antler baths during state visits.

 

[dilute micro]

The Americans fought on opposite sides to the Russians in Syria. They have a little experience.

This article resurfaced recently about when USA killed a load of Wagner mercs: How a 4-Hour Battle Between Russian Mercenaries and U.S. Commandos Unfolded in Syria (Published 2018)

They also fought on opposite sides in Korea, though I don't think that has much relevance to today.

I knew about the Wagners. They got hammered but with tools the Ukrainians don't really have. The Ukrainians did consult with experts in preparation for an invasion and they are actively being fed intel but I think that added to or complemented their design - their geography etc., and enemy tactics and weaponry they're familiar with from the Soviet era and from years of fighting already.

 

[gosub]

Can you spell it out a bit more, please, for us at the back? Who is the 'someone'?

US and UK though I'm seeing underlying taxtics Royal Marine Commandol found useful in schooling the yanks

 

[IC3D]

One Hollywood actor buying one plane would be a start.

Perhaps the server fund would stretch to a glider!

 

[zahir]

 

[frogwoman]

It doesn't look like a rumour unfortunately

 

[gosub]

Spies come in from the cold as intelligence goes unexpectedly public in Ukraine war

Officials say the stream of information - a strategy coordinated by the US with its allies - aims to make Putin question what he’s being told and show Russians they've been lied to

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[dilute micro]

 

[Flavour]

Italian media naming Omurbekov Asanbekovich as the commander of the Russian forces in Bucha (the 64th brigade of motorized artillery, apparently)

 

[HAL9000]

 

[HAL9000]

lack of video for this helicopter makes me skeptical, but if the bounty payments work, every little helps

 

[Indeliblelink]

Yeah, it's Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Got a bit overexcited there.

Confirmed as dead now. Good. Vladimir Zhirinovsky - Wikipedia

 

[DaveCinzano]

Awkward look for liberators

Hajun Project published the data of Russian marauder soldiers, who may be involved in crimes on the territory of Ukraine

Hajun Project published names, phone numbers and contents of parcels of Russian soldiers.

motolko.help

 

[og ogilby]

Ukrainians use 'Find My iPhone' to see where Russians took their stolen Apple devices

Ukrainians are using a popular Apple feature to find their devices after they were stolen by Russians, and it's helping to map out their retreat in real-time.Ukrainians have experienced loss and horror amid the tragedy that is Russia's violent invasion. It has displaced many families and left...

www.indy100.com

 

[Dystopiary]

In Belarus, people who've been sabotaging the railways to thwart war efforts have been wounded, (I think three) people arrested. One of the alleged saboteurs was taken to hospital, others received medical care on site. Difficult to be sure of numbers and how many detained and injured. Ages 28-29.

Spoiler: nasty (NOT pictures)

I'm sorry to say the police have deliberately shot the at least one of the accused in the kneecaps.

This was allegedly on March 30th.

 

[cuppa tee]

i have my doubts about this tbh...

Putin Frees 35,000 Imprisoned Children in Ukraine

By Michael Baxter - @Real Raw News April 5, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday told Donald J. Trump that his “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine had liberated 35,000 children from indentured servitude at what he called “Eastern Europe’s nexus for worldwide sale of especially...

tuzarapost.substack.com

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

i have my doubts about this tbh...

Putin Frees 35,000 Imprisoned Children in Ukraine

By Michael Baxter - @Real Raw News April 5, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday told Donald J. Trump that his “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine had liberated 35,000 children from indentured servitude at what he called “Eastern Europe’s nexus for worldwide sale of especially...

tuzarapost.substack.com

wow, what a splendid loonspud this is

 

[bluescreen]

i have my doubts about this tbh...

Putin Frees 35,000 Imprisoned Children in Ukraine

By Michael Baxter - @Real Raw News April 5, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday told Donald J. Trump that his “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine had liberated 35,000 children from indentured servitude at what he called “Eastern Europe’s nexus for worldwide sale of especially...

tuzarapost.substack.com

Dear god. We can all see this for what it is, but bear in mind (from September 2021, about 'Michael Baxter'):

these headlines haven’t stopped the site from building a following. Though the website has been publishing for less than 10 months, mentions of Real Raw News, realrawnews.com and related hashtags have more than doubled across social media, broadcast and traditional media, and online sites within the last two months, according to an analysis from Zignal Labs Inc., a media intelligence firm. Several stories from that time frame got thousands of shares on Twitter and Facebook.

"We have this assumption that most people can spot that this is a fake news site, and therefore it’s not impactful," said Rachel Moran, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. "But I just don’t think that’s the case anymore."

Long article on 'Michael Baxter' and the danger he presents:

PolitiFact - Hangings, guillotines and Gitmo: Going behind Real Raw News’ sensational (and fabricated) headlines

After the Pentagon mandated the COVID-19 vaccines for the U.S. military in late August, a viral story describing an inte

www.politifact.com

 

[cupid_stunt]

i have my doubts about this tbh...

Putin Frees 35,000 Imprisoned Children in Ukraine

By Michael Baxter - @Real Raw News April 5, 2022 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday told Donald J. Trump that his “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine had liberated 35,000 children from indentured servitude at what he called “Eastern Europe’s nexus for worldwide sale of especially...

tuzarapost.substack.com

On Saturday, Putin revealed to Trump that approximately 35,000 children, most of whom are Russian, were freed from sexual enslavement after his forces identified and discretely targeted 150 trafficking covens.

Proper QAnon stuff.

 

[frogwoman]

There are some unconfirmed videos from the NYT supposedly showing Ukrainian troops shooting Russian POWs, I didn't want to post it but it is of course completely unsurprising if it's true. It is a war crime though and is just going to make it even more easy for Putin to motivate people to support the war.

 

[maomao]

It is a war crime though and is just going to make it even more easy for Putin to motivate people to support the war.

WIll also make Russian soldiers surrendering less likely. The Germans surrendered in large numbers in WW2 because the Allies were treating prisoners properly. The US and Japanese wren't taking prisoners in the Pacific war and look what happened.

 

[frogwoman]

According to some reports I read it's a Georgian volunteer battalion. Might be bollocks of course but if true shows the danger of foreign fighter involvement which lead to huge amounts of brutality in the Syrian war as well (obviously with Daesh but also with Assad's foreign fighters).

 

[not-bono-ever]

The amount of worrying inter group beefs in this conflict is remarkable