Thread by @AricToler

So, I think I figured out how these edited casualty counts came about.

The first public mention of them was through the pro-Russia Donbass Devushka Telegram channel. How did the channel get her?

A pro-Ukraine troll group on Telegram made them as a joke, and sent on to her.

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1644139100407054336

Donbass Devushka posted the documents on April 5th at 1:29pm (US/Central) and shortly after.

In the Devushka group chat, you can see someone say they have leaked documents about half an hour before then.

Below is a screenshot (redacted) of the original post and correspondence, originally captured by a person in this pro-Ukraine Telegram troll group (hence the +7 hour time zone difference from me). Lucas is apparently an admin from the Donbass Devushka group.

The person also claims they are the one who posted the documents on 4chan a few hours beforehand. Timezone below also US/Central.

They claim they gathered these documents from the Minecraft Discord server, where 10 documents were posted on March 4.

5 documents were posted by Donbass Devushka, 3 on 4chan. The common document is the one that was in its original form on 4chan, and edited on Donbass Devushka.

So all of this hubbub, including the incredibly stupid segment on Tucker Carlson's show (RIP), is from some shitposters in a pro-Ukraine Telegram group who were trolling Donbass Devushka.

Not only that, but the initial April 6th Pentagon investigation into the leaks is because Donbass Devushka posted them on her channel. If this shitposter group didn't send these documents to the channel, they may have gone unnoticed on just 4chan even longer, if not indefinitely.

With all this in mind, let's revisit this amazing article:
reuters.com/world/us/russi…

Also: this was not NAFO who did this. The group that sent Donbass Devushka the doctored image probably think that NAFO is incredibly cringe.

A lot of people with cartoon dog avis have very bad reading comprehension, so no, I wasn't calling NAFO cringe (though I'm reconsidering that now). I said that the original Telegram group that doctored the image would think that, as they're 4chan-esque shitposters.