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)
Israel justified its strike on the Nasser Hospital, which killed six journalists and more than a dozen others, by claiming a "Hamas" camera was set up there.
The location they attacked is where Reuters and the AP livestream.
From @IKershner, me, @ckoettl, @sanjanamv, @aboxerman1
I can't believe this is still up and public. You can just click right on the profiles and see the full names and profile photos of the people asking these questions.
Be a bit wary of these claims of Hegseth having a secret Russian email. I've ran into ghost mail.ru and rambler.ru accounts made with usernames and passwords previously found in data leaks.
I've also found a lot of "ghost" duplicate accounts with sequential numbers across mail and rambler services -- like imagine I have atoler1@mail.ru with a pw of istanbul3. or other services will show atoler2 atoler3, atoler4, etc with the same password.Intelx.io
That is all to say: be very wary of reading too much into the information on mail.ru and rambler.ru accounts in these data leak services!
MSNBC is reporting that the backpack that the Midtown shooter ditched in Central Park was full of Monopoly money
(Or, to be conservative, it is a backpack "resembling" that of the shooter. But it wasn't some random cheap Jansport backpack, it was a bit specialized)
By specialized I mean it's a $250-300 photographer backpack. Definitely possible someone had one of these and left it out as a prank (or it was just randomly in Central Park filled with Monopoly money), but it's not a super common item.