Thread by @SlickRockWeb

In true Russian propaganda form, pro-Kremlin proxies are now attempting the gaslighting phase after the stunning NYT revelation that Russia was preparing to run a Hollywood style fake video showing a genocide on Russians, likely in the Donbass region & blaming Ukraine, US & NATO

Incredible NYT @julianbarnes article discussing the recently declassified intel from US & UK of incredible detail ... pointing to a false flag operation that Russia (from the highest levels of their Government) was preparing to green light.

https://twitter.com/julianbarnes/status/1489277083415154688

This pro-Kremlin mouthpiece was front and center on a propaganda effort to blame an accidental death of a Russian child in Donbass on an Ukrainian drone. The child died in his Uncle's garage playing with an undetonated mortar. So these recent tweets are very concerning.

So I dug out the thread from last year on the 5 yr old that died from, looks like grandfather and not uncle's, undetonated munitions on their property. But also interesting is the reuse of a few of the meme graphics that are making the rounds again this wk

https://twitter.com/SlickRockWeb/status/1378554551024939011

Amazingly, I just tweeted this out yesterday. Note the images used in the 2021 thread above. Looks like in 2022 they have decided to flip the image horizontally.

https://twitter.com/SlickRockWeb/status/1489307116645064705

So using @TinEye it appears that 2019 is the oldest version so far that we have found without spending too much time. Guessing it is older though. The flipped version appears in alot of different Russian media in 2021.

Moscow has a long and well documented history of running fake videos for propaganda purposes.

https://twitter.com/yevhenfedchenko/status/1489565402845822983