Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said purported revelations that Moscow is "massing troops and military equipment on the border with Ukraine" didn't even merit a response. Satellite imagery accompanying the bombshell report claimed to show Russian hardware near the city of Yelnya, which is around 250 kilometers from the frontier with Ukraine, and closer to neighboring Belarus.
"The quality of these publications is not even worth commenting on and, in general, you should not pay any attention to them, because you yourself saw that the article is about the border with Ukraine. The photos show the border with Belarus. There is no need to waste time getting acquainted with such low-quality rubbish."He went on to say:
"The movement of some of our military equipment or army units across the territory of the Russian Federation is exclusively our business. Russia has never threatened anyone, does not threaten and does not pose a danger to anyone."Politico's article, published on Monday, cites influential defense review Jane's as saying that the deployment "marks a clear deviation from the 1st Guards Tank Army's standard training pattern." According to the piece, this comes as "tension rises between Moscow and the West."
In an extraordinary turn of events, Ukraine has also denied the reports, saying that "no additional deployment" of the Russian military had been identified in the region.
Earlier this year, claims that Russia was stepping up its presence in the region were claimed by politicians in Kiev to be a precursor to a Moscow-ordered invasion. However, the Kremlin strongly denied that it had any plans for military conflict with Ukraine, and the troops were sent back to their home bases days later after a series of exercises had been conducted.
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Reminds me of the MSM using footage of a shooting range in the USA and saying it was Syria or somewhere like that.
You’d think they’d have learned we are not so easily fooled.
Or, in the same spirit, the faked "Charly Hebdo" demonstration of EU leadesrhip psychos that was filmed in a fenced-off byroad with bodyguards posing as populus.
But yeah, you knew which one I meant I think. Just goes to show how lazy today’s “journo’s” are. Just copy and paste whatever available stock pic comes up.
You can expect perhaps 70 .. 80% of footage to be "repurposed" to evoke a desired reaction with minimal costs. I vividly remember stories of journalists, who describe how they were sent into (alleged) combat zones, only to find out how their old-timer colleages hired local thugs to create the "warzone background" by shooting with AKs on cue. One of them, a German (ex) journalist, was heart-attacked a few years ago. [Link]
Also brings to mind douma and the OCPW fraud.
But most developments in the US are mirrored especially in Germany, which is a remote-controlled US vassal since the end of WWII.
Like the direct or indirect posing of secret service agents as terrorists to frighten the public and assasinate "unpleasant" political or economic figures, full support for Israeli war crimes, financial scams like the DotCom bubble, or controlling both ends of the political spectrum with sham parties, including "neo Nazi" parties controlled by secret service employees or informants that serve as honeypot.
There is a German/Austrian equivalent to almost any political crime and scheme perpetrated in the anglophone world ...
You don't learn too much new, except how the TPTB plan was rolled out almost everywhere at the same time.