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Cuba isn't ancient. Not imperial, instead just another ex slave colony. Not very successful and Communist only since the 1960's.

So Lavrov stated that Ukraine must demilitarise or else Russia will do it.

"So resisting our invasion or else we'll invade you"

And on predictions on his motherland . Just another typical example of how Russians operate its propaganda strategy. Get a discussion going on anything that weakens the west, it’s allies and anyone else in opposition to Russia’s behaviour. If it gets legs and sticks , we’ll and good. And if it does not then it moves onto something else. It does not matter what prediction/point/ statement is made as long as it creates confusion, division ,debate, falsehoods, disturbance, , etc,etc,etc,etc then Ru has achieved its objectives

Snipped to suit an agenda ................

The original pic ...........................

Thats it ? But shes not really a 'someone' .....

A 'mistake' by Lesia Vasylenko ? A Ukrainian lawyer and a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada. 

Really ?

The point is ...

A ukrainian lawyer and member of parliment using a pic from a book and labelling it as a "Marc , 8 yo, just survived a russia military attack"

Its complete misinformation and lies.

But its ok , cos shes Ukrainian, cos its the russians that are bad ??

My comment is about her tweet, and the misinformation in it....

We’re all aware that 1000s of Ukrainian children have been murdered by Russia since this began. She used a photo from Google images instead of a photo of an actual Ukrainian child. Maybe shouldn’t get consent to use a real photo, or maybe she didn’t want to. I still don’t see the point you’re trying to make here. Like I said, it’s a fact that thousands of Ukrainian children have died in this conflict, this is what she’s trying to draw attention to.

Why do you feel the need to fight Russia’s corner here?

Translated Russian soldiers Telegram post.

The Russians are bad.

You're always going to get misinformation and fake news in war, either unwittingly or because someone has invented something. But the Russian regime has committed so many war crimes and killed so many Ukrainian civilians this year, that inventing anything about them would hardly be necessary. I've seen seen very conservative estimates that they have killed 20-30,000 civilians this year, but many suspect the real numbers are much higher.

I don't think people realise the damage that this false propaganda does to Ukraine.

I am on a lot of the popular Russian Telegram channels and this sort of thing is like catnip to them. What's worse is that there are pro-Russians sources out there who will promote this as evidence that Ukraine lies just as much as Russia does. I guarantee that there are people out there who read about this fake and will think "fcuk it, both sides are just as bad as the other, I am tuning out of this war for now on".

A 17 year old schoolgirl was fined 30 thousand rubles by a court yesterday in Russia for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

She used the <...> which is illegal to use against the Russian Forces on posters she stuck up.