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Old 05-19-2022, 02:26 PM   #6274
Baron von Kriterium
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Well, the world of Twitter has been buzzing since last Friday about the Ukrainians crushing the Russians as they forced a crossing on the Siverskyi Donets River near the sleepy little hamlet of Bilohorivka. Users here have posted facts and figures from ironclad OSINT sources citing tens of AFVs destroyed and hundreds of Russians dead. Not to be outdone, here is CNN's effort:


Stills taken from the source video:
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/202...tary-conflict/

Well, friends, we have a problem. I have no doubt that there were Russian casualties - both vehicular and personnel - but CNN is showing Ukrainian vehicles. OK, maybe, just maybe, the destroyed tank in the background of the middle left picture is Russian, but the rest are most assuredly Ukrainian.
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