Courtesy of Mish.
Kiev Lies Pile Up
Major advances were made by rebels in the last couple of weeks. A claim made by Kiev that Ukraine recaptured the airport in Donetsk is a now proven lie.
And the lies pile up. For example, on January 21, the BBC quoted President Petro Poroshenko “Russia has more than 9,000 soldiers and 500 tanks, heavy artillery and armoured personnel carriers in Eastern Ukraine“.
How can you hide 500 tanks and heavy artillery from US spy satellites? The answer is you cannot. And if those vehicles were actually in Eastern Ukraine, the US would have complained about it long ago.
On January 19, the Russian Activist reported 382 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine during last three days.
“Respected Russian human rights activist Elena Vasilieva has announced that 382 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine during the last three days.”
There were no pictures or names. The above sentence was the entire article.
Sadly, people believe nonsense like this USA Today report:
There could be as many as 15,000 Russian troops in Ukraine, many of them deployed there without official documents”, said Valentina Melnikova, head of the Committee of Soldiers’ Mothers.
Reader Jacob Dreizin (a US citizen who speaks Russian and reads Ukrainian) had this to say about Valentina Melnikova:
Mish,
There have been a large number of these “Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine” stories in the Western press since last spring or summer. As a whole, they tend to confuse Russian soldiers with any and all Russians killed in Ukraine….
