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.
(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)
The RDK claimed to have killed a pretty senior Russian officer during their operation in Belgorod (Novaya Tavolzhanka), and shared his ID card. His name is Andrei Stesyev.
Soon after, the Svoboda Rossii Legion (Freedom to Russia) shared additional pages of his ID documents, along with a couple of drone shots showing a body lying in the grass, claiming it was Stesyev.
(Join together the t dot me for the link)
https://t [.] me/legionoffreedom/863
Turns out, they probably really did kill him. The RDK fighters got into a firefight with Stesyev (and presumably others) in Novaya Tavolzhanka. I geolocated the footage showing the body to the southern part of the town, 1.5km from the border.
Was trying to figure out why the Polish Volunteer Corps pixelated out part of this BTR in a video recently published. Then I realized: oooh yeah of course.
(See next tweet for pixelation reveal)
Context: Skachkov is an RDK member who went on the May Belgorod incursion. The video the PDK posted apparently shows the same BTR as the one Skachkov posed in front of.
But really, the Grayzone doing an underwater expedition in the Baltic Sea and touting the discovery of an old boot as breathtaking truthtelling journalism feels like a fever dream.
Kit Klarenberg on the prowl across England's docks for a one-booted man
An apparent RDK fighter (or proxy/friend?) is selling two 'souvenirs' he got in Belgorod oblast this week. He's also selling some other choice items.
Auctions go back quite a few years, and include a Russian "trophy" knife he claims to have taken in Peski (Donetsk oblast) in 2015
The same KKK patch being sold by this user was worn by Aleksandr Skachkov in Belgorod, an RDK fighter. He was previously arrested by the SBU for selling translated copies of the Christchurch shooter's manifesto.
This is Aleksandr Skachkov in at the Grayvoron checkpoint in Belgorod, for example. Pretty distinct tattoo on his right arm, not sure why he's Panda-izing his face when it's so obvious.
Checking out some new 50cm imagery on Planet of Belgorod now. This was likely caused one way or the other from the mini-invasion, located at 50.457124, 35.609863 (google.com/maps/place/50%…)
Nothing I can notice at the city administration building of Grayvoron, which was allegedly hit by a shell dropped by a Ukrainian drone. google.com/maps/@50.48522…
NASA FIRMS shows heat detection near the border checkpoint at Grayvoron, near where the Russian MoD shelled alleged Ukrainian positions. firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/map/#d:24hrs;l…