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Sep 6, 2022, 7 tweets

Yesterday, Russian propaganda channels (notably the infamous Pozdyankov) posted a video showing "dead" Ukrainian troops on a river bank. Today, a Ukrainian channel posted the full video, showing the "dead" soldiers all stand up. They sent a fake video to Russians as a joke.

Vladislav Pozdnyakov's (typo in the original tweet with his last name) channel sharing a brief video of fake-dead troops: t.me/c/1732054517/9…
The reveal of zombie soldiers from today: t.me/kristianudarov…

Pozdnyakov is annoyed he got faked out. He says that the Ukrainians always make fakes from ARMA 3 and he's had only "1-2 mistakes" since the war started, so he's busting out the "banhammer" for everyone making fun of him in his Telegram group.
t.me/c/1732054517/9…

Lol he made this channel private literally 30 seconds after I tweeted that

Can't look at Pozdnyakov's channel now because it's private, but here's a copy of the video without the zombies that he put on his channel. The 1st screenshot of my 1st tweet is from a different, but similar, clip showing a soldier (or "soldier) in water.

reddit.com/r/CrazyFucking…

(My mistake with the screenshot, I clicked the wrong pic in my screenshots folder when doing the tweet. The longer video taken on land that Pozdnyakov fell for is obviously fake. The 8-second one with the floating soldier/"soldier" -- I haven't seen hard proof about either way)

Channel is public again, here we go with the right link: t.me/c/1732054517/8…

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