Three US soldiers alive, despite Russia 'fake news' report, military says
Source: Reuters
Tennessee national guard says officers safe and accounted for after Russian media falsely identified them as slain mercenaries
Reuters
Thu 17 Mar 2022 21.38 EDT
Three current and former members of the Tennessee national guard, who were falsely identified in a Russian media report as mercenaries killed in Ukraine, are in fact alive and well, the Tennessee national guard said on Thursday.
Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Ukraine prior to Russias invasion of the country as part of a broader effort to avoid a direct confrontation with the nuclear-armed adversary.
But the report published in Russias Pravda newspaper identified the Americans by name and gave military ranks for each of them, citing information from pro-Russian militia in Ukraines Donetsk.
The report even offered an intricate explanation for how the three were identified, using items from a backpack near the remains of one of the militants including a Tennessee state flag.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/us-soldiers-national-guard-russia-fake-news

brer cat
(27,175 posts)Putin is really desperate if he is making up dead soldiers out of whole cloth.
SheltieLover
(74,579 posts)Ty for sharing!
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Article says Biden withdrew all US troops (who I assume were on a training mission).
Ford_Prefect
(8,457 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 18, 2022, 08:15 AM - Edit history (1)
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two of the men were still in the Tennessee national guard and in Tennessee. The other man had left the service but was alive and accounted for and not in Ukraine, the official said.
The national guard speculated the militia picked the three men while reviewing official imagery associated with a 2018 deployment by Tennessees 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment to Ukraine, suggesting all three had been in Ukraine.
All members of the Tennessee national guard returned safely to their home state in 2019 after a successful mission, it said.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,692 posts)That's unbelievable! A major world power, a nation with so many proud citizens is spreading such a lie. If they would lie about the deaths of three US citizens, they might lie about almost anything. Seriously???
After this is over, the Ukraine attacks, the war crimes and the genocide, the dust will have settled and the world will know even more so than we do now, what an intense, deliberate and desperate bunch of liars and murderers infest the Russian oligarchy. Will the entire country devolve into civil war?
oldsoftie
(13,538 posts)And thats freaking ridiculous.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,692 posts)...there are folks who think that the Holocaust was a hoax and never happened, that some people think the earth is flat even.
What can I say? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Apparently there are people out there that are stupid and so biased and stupid to figure out that the bad smells permeating their worlds has a lot to do with having their collective heads up their own asses.
"there's none so blind as those who will not see"
Absolutely unbelievable!
Is there a way to hasten nature's own process of evolutionary deselection from the gene-pool?


orangecrush
(27,056 posts)
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Or is it the other way around?
IronLionZion
(50,126 posts)that's why Republicans stick with social media memes and viral videos without sources or context.
Mawspam2
(1,048 posts)...Entire Battalion of Joe Biden's Mercenary Force Killed By Glorious Russian Army Private In Humiliating Defeat!
https://images.app.goo.gl/1QjBkbGdk1puy6Gs6
IronLionZion
(50,126 posts)and other "alternative facts" like the horrible imaginary terrorist attack in Sweden that left Swedish people wondering if Trump is off his meds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Green_massacre
paleotn
(21,053 posts)Lying like hell since BEFORE the commie revolution.