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"Unknown saboteurs blew up two planes and a helicopter in the Moscow region — GUR

The sabotage took place at the Chkalovsky airfield on September 18, 2023. More precisely, two planes and one helicopter were significantly damaged. The event caused quite a bit of hysteria in the higher military corridors - government planes, so-called "doomsday planes" and special planes (reconnaissance planes) are based at the airfield.

Unknown persons planted explosives and detonated AN-148 and IL-20 aircraft (both belonging to the 354th special purpose aviation regiment), as well as an MI-28N helicopter, which was actively involved in shooting down attack drones over Moskovskaya, at the heavily guarded airfield. region

Aircraft damage will not allow to count on their quick recovery. The tail part of the helicopter was damaged by the explosion. Another AN-148, which was next to others in the parking lot, received minor damage."




#aircraft #sabotage

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[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"Unknown saboteurs blew up two planes and a helicopter in the Moscow region — GUR

The sabotage took place at the Chkalovsky airfield on September 18, 2023. More precisely, two planes and one helicopter were significantly damaged. The event caused quite a bit of hysteria in the higher military corridors - government planes, so-called "doomsday planes" and special planes (reconnaissance planes) are based at the airfield.

Unknown persons planted explosives and detonated AN-148 and IL-20 aircraft (both belonging to the 354th special purpose aviation regiment), as well as an MI-28N helicopter, which was actively involved in shooting down attack drones over Moskovskaya, at the heavily guarded airfield. region

Aircraft damage will not allow to count on their quick recovery. The tail part of the helicopter was damaged by the explosion. Another AN-148, which was next to others in the parking lot, received minor damage."
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Wagner mercenary Andrei Medvedev made it to Norway in January in what according to himself was a dramatic escape from FSB Border Guard troops. On Friday, he tried to make it back to Russia in Grense Jakobselv, the northernmost part of Norway’s 198 km border with Russia.

Andrei Medvedev was stopped Friday evening in Grense Jakobselv as he in the dark tried to make it over the border back into the Kola Peninsula.

The police in Finnmark confirms to the Barents Observer that a man in his 20s is detained and will be charged for violating the border rules.

“We can confirm that a man is detained,” says operative commander with Finnmark Police district, Martin Marum, in a phone interview late Friday evening.

Marum says the detention happened in Grense Jakobselv. “The detention was undramatic,” he says.

Marum will not share name or nationality of the person, but says he was about to leave Norway for Russia.

It is illegal to cross the land border in the terrain. The attempted border crossing came only few hours after Medvedev briefly met a journalist from the Barents Observer in downtown Kirkenes.

The 27-year former Wagner fighter then said that he intended to cross the border and that he was looking for somebody with a car that could give him a lift.

He looked excited, but at the same time calm and determined. He explained that he believed that he soon would be extradited to Ukraine and that a return to Russia would be a safer alternative.

Shortly after the conversation, he apparently managed to make it to Grense Jakobselv about 50 km from Kirkenes. In Grense Jakobselv, only a small and shallow river separates Norway and Russia. It is unclear how Medvedev made it to the area. There is no public transport to the border river.

Andrei Medvedev’s escape from Russia to Norway in mid-winter 2023 made world headlines. The mercenary had managed to enter the heavily guarded border zone on the Kola Peninsula and then cross over to Norway.

Medvedev feared for his life and sought asylum in the Nordic country. He was a key witness to the Wagner Group’s torture and killings in Ukraine and quickly confirmed that he was ready to testify in court against his former Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin.

In June, Medvedev was back in Kirkenes. In an interview with the Barents Observer, he underlined that he had no plans whatsoever to return to Russia. He also admitted he was afraid of being sent to Ukraine.

In July, the former warrior was again back in Kirkenes. In a second conversation with the Barents Observer he then repeated that he had no plans to return to Russia.

Some time ago on 27 Apr 2023:
A court in Norway has sentenced a former contractor of the Wagner Group, the private Russian military company known for brutal tactics, to 14 days in jail for disorderly conduct (a bar brawl) and for carrying an air gun in a public place.

A month later, he was detained in Sweden where he went to buy cheaper cigarettes. As an asylum seeker in Norway, he is not allowed to leave the country while his application is being processed.

The Oslo court acquitted Andrey Medvedev, who is seeking asylum in Norway, of committing violence against police officers during his arrest, according to his lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes.

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russian brainwashing at very young age.

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russian brainwashing at very young age.

And...into the jail she goes. When will they learn, its SWO, not WAR.

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Crimea the vacation land of Putin and friends:

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Little Crimea for big people .
Report about who settled in secret dachas in Crimea



Dachas of top officials have always been in Crimea, but it was after the annexation to Russia that large-scale construction began on them, accompanied by unprecedented security measures. While an ice arena and tatami mats are being built at state dachas for high-ranking guests, the FSO prohibits local residents from walking in the mountains and owning their own houses.

In the summer of 2019, a resident of the southern coastal Crimean village of Oliva, Sergei Kabak, went for a walk in the mountains with his girlfriend. The guest wanted to see the Devil's Staircase - the famous mountain pass. But the excursion did not go well: on the way to the top, the couple was stopped by armed men without identification marks who suddenly jumped out of the bushes. The girl was detained, and Sergei was forced to run to the village to get documents. Having returned, the out of breath man received valuable advice from people in camouflage: “Don’t walk here anymore, there are tripwires in the forest (signal mines - “Project”).” Sergei did not go to the mountains with the girls anymore (*. This story is told from the words of Kabak himself).

Cottage for a judo lover
How state dachas No. 6 and 8 were built in Oliva and for whom the ice palace and tatami appeared there

Polite armed men appearing in the most unexpected places have become part of everyday life for the residents of Oliva in recent years. The fact is that it is in this part of the southern coast of Crimea, between Foros and Yalta, that there are state dachas No. 6, 8, 9 and 10, where in Soviet times the party nomenklatura, and later the top officials of Ukraine and the CIS countries, rested.



50 meters from the slides and benches of the village playground there is a checkpoint of state dachas No. 6 and 8. From the playground itself, part of the territory is visible. Over the past few years, a six-meter stone fence with CCTV cameras has grown around the dachas. , and construction continues unceasingly inside.



The most unusual object on the territory is a construction site, which in the village is called the “ice palace”; its snow-white metal frame can be seen from Oliva’s playground. An ice arena is a rarity for Crimea; on the peninsula there are only private skating rinks in shopping centers.


Three employees working in a closed area said that the frame under construction was nothing more than a future ice skating rink. This is confirmed by the construction documents that “Project” has reviewed: there the facility is described as “indoor hockey rink No. 65 at the state enterprise at facility K-117” (*. Object K-117 is one of the code names for Oliva’s state dachas in the public procurement system ) .

Each dacha has a skating rink

There are ice arenas at other VIP sites that are associated with Putin. In 2016, RBC discovered 98 hectares of land in Valdai owned by St. Petersburg LLC Prime, the founder of which is the non-profit partnership “Support for Entrepreneurial Initiatives” of father and son Yuri and Boris Kovalchukov. The real estate built on this site is leased by Prime to the building management department of the Presidential Administration. Among the facilities mentioned is an indoor ice skating rink with an area of ​​2485 sq.m.

In May 2019, “Project” wrote that in the residence “Gorki 10” on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway There is also an ice arena. This arena was mentioned in his memoirs by the head of Yeltsin’s security service, Alexander Korzhakov: according to him, it was intended for the “Night Hockey League” created by Putin.



The ice arena is not the only large construction site inside: in three years, according to the government procurement portal, the swimming pools, saunas and plunge pools of the spa complex were reconstructed here , repaired the ventilation and air conditioning system , built a dormitory for staff with 60 beds , carried out anti-landslide work . Over the years, the customers for this work were the presidential administration structure in the North-Western District, the military construction department of the Ministry of Defense, and the Crimean branch of the FSO.

Inside the territory there is another fence that hides the recreation area by the sea from prying eyes. Behind it is a multi-storey dormitory building “with marble walls and ceilings and a marble elevator” (*, the contractors told the Project), a large indoor winter garden with a small house under a copper roof, Krupskaya. It was left as a museum value.

In the summer of 2019, a tatami was built on the site of an outdoor tennis court at the state dacha . A prefabricated frame of metal structures with an area of ​​about 500 square meters was erected on a site in a pine forest. meters. From the outside, the structure resembles a hangar; inside, it resembles a hall with a soft surface.

The appearance of the ice skating rink and tatami gave rise to rumors among the workers: supposedly President Vladimir Putin, a lover of judo and hockey, would personally relax at this dacha. One of the employees familiar with the work schedule at the site assures that they were in a hurry to complete the tatami by the beginning of August 2019 - in time for the president’s visit to Crimea. On August 10, Putin took part in the opening of the “Night Wolves” bike show in Sevastopol and attended the premiere of the play “Griffin” based on the play by Tikhon Shevkunov in Chersonesos .

Multi-storey buildings in the lower part of the village of Oliva hang directly over the territory of the state dachas, and therefore, despite the giant fences and heavy security, local residents immediately know when guests appear and disappear at the dacha. In August 2019, high-ranking guests disappeared rather quickly. Two local residents told the Project that bacteria were allegedly found in the drinking water . For another month after that visit, people in uniform walked around Oliva and looked for illegal cesspools that could provoke infection (*, local residents told the Project).

The new inhabitants of the dacha are afraid of not only bacteria. Thus, by special order, a concrete corridor resembling a caponier was built near the old outdoor pool, built under the former owners. Now you can get to the water unnoticed between concrete walls .

When the Project correspondent tried to take a photo of the ice palace from the playground, two strong men in uniforms with the inscription “security” came out of the checkpoint gate and pretended to be walking past parked cars.

A cottage for a swimming enthusiast
Who rests next to “Putin’s dacha” and whom the state dacha staff loved most

Close to state dachas No. 6 and 8 there are two more state dachas - No. 9 and 10. During the times of Ukraine, presidents rested here. After the annexation of Crimea to Russia in 2014, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was seen here several times .

At the dacha there is a sports and fitness complex with a gym, a combined indoor and outdoor pool with a hydromassage area, two contrasting plunge pools, a steam bath and a sauna. In 2017, 90 million rubles were spent on renovation of the sports complex . The same amount was spent on equipment for automated life support systems. .

Those who worked at this dacha tell many stories. For example, that the most democratic of those staying in Oliva was Viktor Yushchenko. On vacation, he did not shy away from the company of servants, greeted and talked to everyone. At the end of the season, his wife Katerina organized dinners at the common table and gave small gifts to the workers.

Under Yushchenko, local residents could walk around the territory of state dachas and even go down to the beach. “In the bushes, as now, employees were sitting and jumping out when strangers approached,” says Sergei Kabak, a resident of Oliva. “But they were just checking the documents of the locals.” And in general, it was their problem to find out who you are and why you are going.”

Under Yanukovych, rules became stricter . Employees accustomed to taking liberties were often reprimanded “for their ‘European’ arrogance.” Former employees call Medvedev “a normal guy,” and his wife Svetlana is called “strict and demanding.”

Crimea is not for Crimeans
How new residents of state dachas interfere with old residents of the village and why the new neighborhood threatens Crimeans with deprivation of housing

For Kabak, the appearance of new dacha residents turned out to be more than just a ruined walk in the mountains. For three years now, he, like several dozen of his neighbors, has been suing for his own house.

The fact is that in December 2016, by order of the Federal Security Service, a security zone 1 km wide was established around state dachas . Formally, it only limits certain types of activities, for example, it prohibits the construction of permanent structures without the permission of the FSO.

But in fact, the residents of Oliva are now unable to register their houses and land: in October 2016, the head of the FSO in Crimea, Nikolai Kondratyuk sent a letter to the Crimean branch of Rosreestr with a request not to include objects that fell into the security zone of state dachas into the unified cadastral database (USRN) . Crimean officials took the spotlight .

In November 2019, the Project correspondent met with two dozen residents of Oliva. Everyone has the same problem: for three years now people have been unable to sell their houses, bequeath them, or donate them. Kabak bought the plot in 2002, while still in Ukraine, he developed a house project and received a building permit. In 2016, the Yalta authorities put the house into operation and assigned it an address, but Sergei was denied registration of ownership rights. “The land under the house is mine, I managed to register it in 2015, when there was no [security] zone yet, and the house is not mine,” the man shrugs. Kabak has already passed all the courts in Russia, there is only one hope left - the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Six residents of Oliva have already filed lawsuits there.

Kabak’s neighbor in Oliva, Igor Petrenko, cannot register the rights to the plot, which was allocated to him by the Ukrainian authorities in 2013. Three years later, the Russian administration of Yalta gave the go-ahead for the final privatization of the land. The documents are ready, but Rosreestr does not register the rights. In 2014, Igor’s grandfather died, leaving him as an inheritance another house in Oliva, built before the revolution. Now Petrenko also cannot enter into an inheritance: “My great-grandmother lived in this house, then my grandfather, but they tell me that I have no rights.”

Oliva resident Tatyana Kozharina brought handwritten birth certificates of her relatives, dated to the beginning of the 20th century, to a meeting with the Project correspondent. “In the courts, the FSO says that our village was built in the 50s and 60s to serve state dachas,” she explains the importance of the papers. - But this is not true, people lived in Mukhalatka many centuries. State dachas are nothing more than estates from tsarist times.”

Several hundred people live in the village. People are sure that sooner or later they will either be forced to leave their homes or be evicted. At meetings with locals, FSO representatives allegedly expressed fears that “a mine would fly from the gardens towards the state dachas.” . These fears sound funny, considering that every second pensioner here served in the 9th Directorate of the KGB, and is now on the FSO Veterans Council. The level of suspicion in the village is off the charts: at the end of the meeting, one of the participants whispered in the ear of a “Project” correspondent who among those present could be an “FSB informer.”

Cottage for lovers of helicopters and jet skis
How the FSB launched the largest construction project in Crimea

When you are driving along the Sevastopol - Yalta highway, at some point the sea on the right disappears, and in its place - for a whole minute — a six-meter metal fence grows. It appeared in Oliva in 2016 and cut off part of the coastal area from the Iphigenia rock to state dachas No. 6 and 8 - those that are now called “Putin’s dacha.”


Behind the fence is the former Tavria sanatorium, which once belonged to the structures of the Privat group of the Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky. In 2014, the sanatorium was nationalized, and they even tried to put it up for auction.

However, in 2016, the land of “Tavria” was officially transferred for indefinite use to the Federal State Institution “Military Unit 55002” - this is the economic department of the FSB. Since then, one of the largest construction projects on the southern coast of Crimea has been taking place there.

In three years, four helipads appeared on the territory: three on the rocks . The new embankment is finished with granite: tiles, parapets, balusters - everything is massive, made from solid pieces of stone . Flowerbeds and mature trees of bonsai and topiary forms are planted on the embankment. All paths on the territory are covered with red asphalt, on which workers are prohibited from driving. You can get from the embankment to the dormitory building using a glass elevator. The building itself and the guest houses are decorated with natural stone .

In 2018, two large buildings were built from scratch on the territory of the former sanatorium , two administrative buildings , multi-storey garages . Also at the dacha there are cottages for guests, seven open reservoirs and swimming pools , beach bar with fireplace and observation deck, climate pavilion, sauna, tennis court. Water is supplied to the pools from the depths of the sea .



The facility is completely autonomous: it is equipped with a water and wastewater treatment system, and the energy supply is duplicated by diesel generators. It has its own fleet of electric service cars and firefighter KAMAZ. On the shore there is a garage for jet skis (*, employees say).

The FSB facility is the most guarded in Crimea . The six-meter fence running along the route is only the first contour. Behind him is another one. Between the fences there is a patrol trail, patrolled once an hour. There are more than a hundred cameras on the territory, signal booby traps near the fence, and observation posts at viewing platforms: at least two people simultaneously monitor movements at sea. Suspicious objects - yachts or boats - are intercepted by security on jet skis, and curious people photographing the dacha from the shore are captured by a drone.

Civilian drone flights over this entire area are prohibited. . And they are impossible: a quadcopter that takes off into the air immediately loses the signal. To control the sky in the village, a “jammer” tower was built .


Thus, from a rather modest boarding house by modern standards, “Tavriya” turned into an elite dacha. The employees met here the top officials of the FSB and FSO: in particular, the director of the security service Alexander Bortnikov .

Mysterious Contractor
Who builds dachas in sanctioned Crimea

“Putin’s dacha” and “Tavria” have something in common: the general contractor for the construction is the Transstroyinvest group of companies (TSI) and its affiliates . This was not publicly reported, but, according to the Project’s interlocutors, it was TSI who built new buildings and an embankment at the FSB dacha, and a year later - tatami and an ice palace at state dachas No. 6 and 8. TSI owner Alexey Fomenko personally came to the VIP construction sites .

Until recently, no one knew about the 40-year-old father of five children, Fomenko, but in 2019 his company built the elite Sofiysky residential complex on Sofiyskaya Embankment overlooking the Kremlin. This is one of the most expensive places in Moscow, and the cost of a square meter of housing in a residential complex starts from 536 thousand rubles, with a view of the Kremlin - from 1.1 million rubles. TSI has been operating in the Moscow government contracting market since 2013 , it also carried out state contracts for the reconstruction of Vnukovo, Domodedovo, Pulkovo airports, and participated in Russian Railways projects.

In Crimea, TSI built residential buildings for military personnel in Dzhankoy and Armyansk , a logistics center for building materials in the village of Gvardeiskoye near Simferopol, an elite residential complex in Parkovoy .


In 2014, Fomenko’s company sponsored an event by the Moscow government to distribute T-shirts “Sanctions? Don’t make me laugh, my Iskanders” and “Topol is not afraid of sanctions.” The main enterprise of the group is Transstroyinvest LLC is pledged to the state bank VTB, and since November 2017, Transstroyinvest has used VTB trademarks .

Dacha for Putin lovers
How the president’s friends fenced off a protected cape from residents

Oliva is not the only place on the coast where local residents have limited movement due to new construction. The Batiliman tract is a tiny stretch of coast near the inaccessible Cape Aya in Sevastopol, one of the few places on the southern coast of Crimea where you can live as a savage in a tent by the sea. In the summer of 2019, the government of Sevastopol unexpectedly announced the closure of the road to Batiliman . The formal reason is the poor condition of the asphalt . However, local residents are sure that the matter is in the mansion, located in a protected juniper forest. They began to build it back in Ukraine, and among local residents it immediately received the name “Yanukovych’s dacha.” Under Russia, the mansion acquired new, very influential owners.

The construction of a luxurious dacha on the territory of the Cape Aya recreation center of the state enterprise Ukravtodor began in the mid-2000s, when the base was privatized by a company that the media associated with Alexander Yanukovych, the son of the ex-president of Ukraine. In the first years of the Russian government, they wanted to demolish the unfinished dacha in court . But soon the decision was canceled, and the unfinished construction was put up for auction.


In 2016, the buildings were bought by St. Petersburg LLC Chance, owned by Bank Rossiya, controlled by Yuri Kovalchuk. Kovalchuk’s structures generally have broad business interests in Crimea: from the new airport terminal in Simferopol to boarding houses and wineries. In 2017, the dacha was transferred to the newly created St. Petersburg LLC Bereg, whose director is Pavel Zaitsev, a long-time partner of the co-owners of Rossiya.

To see the dacha, you need to enter the Batiliman recreation center, walk half a kilometer along asphalt paths, go down a steep path along a rusty fence, turn into a pine forest and go to the coast. It was from the seashore in early summer 2019 that the Project correspondent, who participated in a joint trip of deputies, social activists and journalists to the closed beaches of Batiliman, was able to take footage of a large construction site.

The main building of Yanukovych’s dacha has changed since 2015: it was expanded and built on. The copper roof of the mansion disappeared, and a new one appeared in its place. Work is underway on the site to develop an embankment with breakwaters. Divers and one of the largest floating cranes on the Black Sea, Sevastopolets-1, are working. .

Construction has not been completed, and the coast of Batiliman is already deserted. Neighboring recreation centers "Batiliman" and "Janos" did not work this summer . Children's camp "Chaika" next season, most likely, there will be no children accepted . In the summer of 2019, the Ministry of Defense closed the only public beach on the coast, fencing it with a fence with barbed wire. The beach, together with the Tavrida recreation center, was taken over by the military by order of Sevastopol Governor Sergei Menyailo in 2015. Read more about the document in the report “Crimea is not yours. How the Ministry of Defense takes away land from people who believed in Russian Sevastopol . ”



indirectly, the high status of future guests of the dacha is indicated by the ban on the construction of observation platforms on the rocks. The eco-route “Great Sevastopol Trail”, created by the Tourism Development Center of the Government of Sevastopol, runs along the cliffs of Mount Kush-Kaya above Batiliman. The trail organizers were advised not to place observation platforms at the top of Kush-Kai, but to move them lower, where the dacha in Batiliman would not be visible . The press service of the Sevastopol Tourism Development Center answered questions from the “Project” that the observation deck was moved to another peak, since “more than 25 professional climbing routes go to Kush-Kaya.”



Employees of neighboring recreation centers and builders who worked at the site believe that the dacha is being rebuilt for the chairman of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko. . She was seen at a construction site in early June 2018. . A similar version was expressed on Facebook in May 2019 by former official of the Crimean Ministry of Economic Development Pyotr Savrasov. After the publication, he was summoned to the FSO of Crimea in Simferopol and urgently asked to delete the post .

Don't go here
Why are photos with sea views prohibited in summer Crimea?

This summer, Oliva resident Sergei Kabak and his friends sunbathed under an umbrella on the beach between state dachas No. 9 and 10 and the Mellas sanatorium. Suddenly, divers appeared from the water and demanded documents from the vacationers. Since then, Sergei has not gone not only to the mountains, but also to this beach .



In recent years, in August-September, the territory on the southern coast of Crimea from the Laspinsky Pass and almost to Simeiz turned into a restricted zone. Armed men without identification marks were waiting for tourists on the trails. They introduced themselves either as FSO fighters, or as employees of the Russian Guard, or as police officers. When asked what the inspection was about, they answered that exercises were being carried out, asked walkers not to approach the cliffs, not to look down and, most importantly, not to take photographs of the shore.

The Project correspondent met polite people near state dachas several times. For the first time - back in early 2018, while trying to photograph the FSB boarding house. As soon as the car slowed down at the side of the road near the fence of the facility, a man in uniform fell out of the bushes and demanded that all the footage be deleted. During a trip to Oliva in November 2019, a project correspondent inspected the FSB dacha from the side of the Iphigenia rock, and a security guard closely watched the process from the fence. Not noticing the danger in the selfie against the backdrop of the sea, he disappeared into his lodge.

[WonderMomma]

"In Kherson, a priest of the UOC-MP was selling weapons and ammunition. In September, he sold two Igla anti-aircraft missile systems and three powder charges for a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher and received $3,000 for it.

The cleric also had two caches with a machine gun, an AK-74 rifle, powder charges, grenades, ammunition of various calibers and bayonet knives."




Wasn't sure where to post this. But if Kadyrov is dead, they have Telegram where ever he ended up.

"Kadyrov published a video clip showing his son Adam beating Nikita Zhuravel, accused of setting fire to the Koran.

The head of Chechnya said he approved of his son's act. "He beat him and did the right thing. Moreover, I believe that he who encroaches on any Holy Scripture, including demonstratively burning it, who insulted tens of millions of citizens of our large country by doing so, should be severely punished," Kadyrov wrote in his Telegram channel."

#chechen

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"Russian officials have photoshopped a photo of a (almost) dead soldier being awarded.

Russian soldier Artur Sultangaliev died the day before yesterday. He had been seriously wounded the day before, and in order to give positive news (not just an obituary), the regional military commissariat photoshopped a photo of his award and spread the news in local newspapers and administration press releases."

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Originally Posted by WonderMomma ↗

"Russian officials have photoshopped a photo of a (almost) dead soldier being awarded.

Russian soldier Artur Sultangaliev died the day before yesterday. He had been seriously wounded the day before, and in order to give positive news (not just an obituary), the regional military commissariat photoshopped a photo of his award and spread the news in local newspapers and administration press releases."

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Yes. They (ruzzians) even confirmed that photoshop.