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Yes, although that's neither new nor on topic. Russia is liberating the Dombass, which was invaded by Ukraine, anybody who says otherwise is clearly a criminal spreading misinformation—at least in Russia. (The UN General Assembly said otherwise.)

one goal of this strategy, especially when applied in foreign countries, is to erode trust in authoritative information sources. It's good to explain the terms.

Might be interesting to check if there was a NOTAM out for that night. They could've simply closed the airport during the ecercise. What I'd like zo know is why land belonging to "3:08:00 uh local authority 3:10:00 and national resources for wales" is supposed to be private land, I'd have...

Russia says: Asked about the attack, Mr Lavrov said: "As for the maternity ward, it is not the first time that we see the shouting in relation to so called atrocities of the Russian military." He claimed that hospital had been taken over by the Azov battalion - a volunteer group fighting...

I've been linking there because it has the whole twitter thread on a single page (couldn't find it on threadreaderapp), but you can also read it on Twitter itself. Here's an example item from The Times, showing that Russia has "neonazis fighting in this war":More than 400 Russian mercenaries...

Not really. The future threat hinges on Russia accusing Ukraine of having WMDs, and with regard to chemical that threat goes back to last year. Kremlin-sponsored media quoted a former Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) officer on December 24 stating that Ukrainian Armed Forces will use chemical...

Russia introduced the anti-nazi resolution. Yet they, too, have neonazis fighting in this war. I'm excerpting a list, the source has more details on each. Because some people are eager to ignore all of the Nep-Nazi/Fascist/Third Positionist/Generally reactionary forces aligned with Russia in...

From a Chinese news site: The Russian Defence Ministry on Thursday announced that the US-funded biological labs located in Ukraine were conducting experiments with bat coronavirus samples. "According to the documents, the American side planned to conduct work on pathogens of birds, bats, and...

What would a "yes" achieve? Denying that Ukraine has WMD allows them to portray Ukraine as the underdog against Russia, who has committed via treaty to not have any either, but these Russians can't be trusted, right?

See also https://www.metabunk.org/threads/chernobyl-during-russia-and-ukraine-conflict.12296/

I'm not following; historically, the State department wants people to think "no" here, whereas Russia and China are trying for "yes". Nuland's answer is an implied "no" and then a comment on how close they are to "yes". It's the same with nuclear weapons: you're looking for whether a country...

Of course that's also true if you target civilians with more traditional weapons. "The US has a long history of using chemical weapons, most notably in the Iran-Iraq war by the US-backed regime of Saddam Hussein." I'm not really ok with that kind of logic. I don't think the US is claiming...

Ukraine accused Russia of bombing a children’s hospital and maternity ward in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, trapping children and others under the rubble in what Ukraine’s president called an “atrocity”. The Donetsk region’s governor said 17 people were wounded in the attack...

This is a surprise. From the US Senate: Rubio: I only have a minute left. Let me ask you, does Ukraine have chemical or biological weapons? Nuland: Ukraine has biological research facilities, which, in fact, we are now quite concerned Russian forces may be seeking to gain control of. So we...

Over 2 million refugees in 2 weeks, that's 5% of the population, not counting internal refugees. Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/ICRC/status/1501287087961743364

The advantage of the water tube level is that you don't need a telescope for it, and no special location—any sufficiently high hill will do, and you can see for yourself that "looks flat" is only approximately true. (Search on Metabunk for posts by me mentioning "equinox" to find my favorite DIY...

Like this (from 2018, flag burning included)? A crowd of around 100 Ukrainian far-right demonstrators attacked institutions linked to Russia during a nationalist rally held in Kyiv under the slogan "Death to Russia" on February 18. Or this (2012)? A number of fundamentalist Israeli members of...

Germany doesn't come into it, Ramstein is strictly run by the US. My translation: We asked you guys to stick your neck out for us, but we're not going to do it ourselves. Poland didn't want to do it because they're afraid of Russia, so they put the US in a position where the US says it doesn't...

The authorities of the Republic of Poland, after consultations between the President and the Government, are ready to deploy – immediately and free of charge – all their MIG-29 jets to the Ramstein Air Base and place them at the disposal of the Government of the United States of America. At the...

4 polls, the dates are on the graphs. The ACF (Nawalny) poll is admittedly not representative of the general popularion, but the argument is that the registered strong shift in attitudes can be generalized anyway. If that'a true, the WaPo poll may already be outdated.