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Mar 26, 2022, 14 tweets

ANOTHER top UK official was taken for a ride by pranksters posing as Ukraine’s Prime Minister

Home Secretary Priti Patel falls hook, line & sinker for the gag, openly denigrating “allies,” Interpol, & herself (in broken Russian) in the latest humiliation for British leaders👇🧵

Patel acknowledges pressuring Kenya & UAE to act against Russia & brags “not just on Interpol but on other issues, you see some of our allies working at a different level compared to the UK”

“We are out there in a very strong & forceful way & there are others trying to catch up”

Under a new UK law by Patel’s party, other refugees without papers can be jailed for 4 years

But for Ukrainians, "this is uncapped—there are no limits. Our schemes are very generous & they are very open… The paperwork, the bureaucracy & biometric checks will be taken in the UK”

On “people who are nationalists… Banderites and neo-nazis” which Putin warned about, the phony Ukrainian Prime Minister says “I hope that UK citizens are not afraid of them!”

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel’s response: “Clearly they’re not!”

You can see some alarm bells start going off in the UK Home Secretary’s head when the pranksters praise what they call her “squatter activists” for occupying “the mansion of Oleg Deripaska” and declare that they’d “like to get it for Mr. Zelensky’s residence.”

Patel tries unsuccessfully to hide her increasing alarm & pushes back slightly as the supposed Ukraine PM cheers NATO collaborator Bellingcat & expresses satisfaction with the UK’s “fair trial” of Julian Assange

“We know he drank a lot of your country’s blood, so it’s important”

UK Home Secretary nods along eagerly as the pranksters explain that “there are many oligarchs in your country but some may be useful to us”

Guy posing as Ukraine’s PM: “The Russians who come to you, you can’t let them in. Even students. They all could be KGB or FSB agents. They need to be checked in a special way”

UK Home Secretary Priti Patel: “Well Prime Minister, that’s absolutely right. That is absolutely right”

Patel plays along as the phony Ukraine PM offers a series of idiotic suggestion for how to screen out Russians:

“You could ask, Crimea belongs to Ukraine, or not?”

“It could also work to determine who is really Putin supporters.”

Pranksters coach the UK Home Secretary into calling herself a “disgusting Englishwoman” in broken Russian before signing off with a salute to her tormentors:

“Vovan and Lexus, incredible heroes—thanks to them for the work they’ve been doing to fight for an independent Ukraine”😂

Sounds like my translation may be a little off but you get the gist:

YouTube just banned comedy duo Vovan & Lexus, supposedly for violating “community rules” but obviously in response to the UK military demanding their prank call with their Defense Secretary be “removed”

No threat to the Ukraine narrative can be tolerated.
sputniknews.com/20220326/youtu…

As far as I know videos of Vovan and Lexus prank calls with high ranking UK officials are now available only on RuTube. Check it out & archive them while you still can 👇

rutube.ru/video/a110abfc…

My thread on the video the UK claims is “Russian disinformation” & “creates a substantial risk to UK national security”

Watch the nuclear non-proliferation signatory’s Defense Secretary encourage a man he thinks is Ukraine’s PM to develop nukes—and hide it—& decide for yourself:

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