Ukraine neither confirming nor denying involvement right now...
The chance of it being a Russian false flag seems 50/50 to me, but I can't quite imagine why they'd want to do it. An excuse to escalate, obviously, but while they're in retreat? Propaganda for the Russian audience hardly seems necessary at this point.
Maybe it was the Ghost of Kiev.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:07,
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Apparently Russians are now panic buying fuel in the Belgorod Region
so there's even less for Putin's Army.
twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1509779208817496065
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:35,
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that's just the queue for the 15% off potatoes
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:17,
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...raining buttery death from the sky.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:36,
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Yeah, I've seen a bunch of Ukrainians calling bullshit on this
Like the helicopters are wrong, they'd have had no chance of getting that far into Russia, etc.
Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 15:37,
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Could be gaslighting the Russians
Given their attitude to the truth the temptation to fuck with them a bit must be irresistible.
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I'm going to believe that pun was intentional
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:18,
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How very considerate of you.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:57,
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90-95% sure it’s genuine.
Can’t rule out a false-flag entirely, but it’s a soft target in easy reach of the Ukrainian border, with a significant strategic benefit to Ukraine in fuckering it up.
Russia did it? Well you’d have to believe that firstly they saw a larger strategic benefit in propaganda than in the supply of refined oil to their front line, and secondly that the Russian Air Force have units willing to conduct orders that amount to civil war against their own population.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 17:40,
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I've no doubt Russia has plenty of people willing to wage <s>war</s> special operations against their own people,
since that is ostensibly what they claim to be doing in Ukraine, and what they were doing in Georgia, Chechenya, etc., etc.
US intelligence have been pretty accurate about Russia so far, and they've been warning of false flags for weeks now.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 18:00,
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I'm tempted to believe it.
Would be interesting to know how much oil was actually in the tanks. If they were very low, it might make a plausible low cost excuse to escalate.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 18:05,
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Ukraine is officially denying it now.
Suggesting it was rogue elements within Russia! lulz.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 1 Apr 2022, 23:13,
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Of course they are.
They want to turn the Russian public opinion against the war in order to stop it, not turn Russians further against them and have them to escalate attacks. They also don’t want to alienate any outside supporters, who might think this is a dangerous escalation and therefore stop supplying weapons lest they end up being used in Russian territory and dragging them into the war.
Only benefit of claiming responsibility is in providing good news to their citizens, and they’ve got enough of that right now already.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sat 2 Apr 2022, 8:57,
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