Russian forces controlling Snake Island in Ukraine were forced to flee on speedboats after the Ukrainian army launched a brutal attack to retake it.
Southern Operations Command confirms the departure of the Russian occupiers of Snake Island. They could not stand the weather, the earth was burning under their feet, the sea was boiling, and the air was very hot. PS Russian warships set out for yourselves! Ukrainian Ministry of Defense chirp early Thursday.
The announcement came after the Southern Operations Command stated that Russian forces had “hurriedly” evacuated from the island on two speed boats overnight. Footage of the island, a strategic location in the Black Sea, showed flames and black plumes of smoke after the Ukrainian attack.
The Russian Defense Ministry, of course, tried to make the withdrawal a victory. In Thursday’s briefing, a spokesman He confessed He pulled out but made no mention of the Ukrainian attack, instead claiming that Putin’s forces had fulfilled their mission, and then, as a goodwill gesture, left so that Moscow could prove to the world that Russia “is not interfering with UN efforts to organize a humanitarian corridor for the export of agricultural products from the territory of Ukraine”.
This far-fetched claim appears to be part of a pattern of Russian defense officials taking Russian public opinion (and the world at large) to fools since the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24.
according to comprehensive investigation Published Thursday by independent investigative media outlet Project Media, the Russian Defense Ministry is making up its “victories” in Ukraine from the start, repeatedly boasting of controlling the same cities and citing data pulled “out of nowhere”.
Researchers at the media outlet studied all 196 briefings given by Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov since February 24 and found “glaring and ridiculous discrepancies in numbers and geography,” the outlet said Thursday.
Among the most blatant lies, Konashenkov has repeatedly bragged about Russian forces seizing the same villages over and over again, apparently based on the Russian public’s inability to remember the names of mysterious Ukrainian sites, according to the report. One village, Kremina, in the Luhansk region, was declared a victory for Russia on at least four different occasions during March and April.
The city of Lyman (also known as Krasnyi Lyman) was also said to have been captured by Russian forces on March 2, but then, according to the report, subsequent reports provided by the Russian Defense Ministry indicated that Ukrainian forces and armory had somehow “magically appeared” In the area that was supposedly already under Russian control. Three months after he first announced that Russian forces had taken control of the city, Konashenkov repeated this claim again on May 28.
The same has been done with at least 25 other villages and cities, the report notes.
The lie began even on the first day of the full-blown war, according to Project Konashenkov, with Konashenkov reporting that Russian forces had eliminated 74 Ukrainian military outposts—although his list of facilities added only 37.
The researchers say they also discovered that Russia’s claims about the amount of Ukrainian equipment destroyed were literally impossible, with the Defense Ministry saying it destroyed more equipment than Ukraine had, even considering Western supplies.
Noting that the Ministry of Defense had sought to “create the illusion of success” since the beginning of the war, the investigation found that “Konashenkov’s reports are becoming more fanciful every day. As a result, when the “Project” summed up all the statements of the press secretary about the losses of the Ukrainian army, the result was, in words To put it mildly, strange.”
