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Judi Lynn

(163,980 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 04:12 AM Mar 2022

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 Russia’s 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 Russia’s Pravda newspaper identified the Americans by name and gave military ranks for each of them, citing information from pro-Russian militia in Ukraine’s 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

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Three US soldiers alive, despite Russia 'fake news' report, military says (Original Post) Judi Lynn Mar 2022 OP
That is great news. brer cat Mar 2022 #1
Great news! SheltieLover Mar 2022 #2
Why were they in Ukraine? left-of-center2012 Mar 2022 #3
All three were NOT in Ukraine in 2022. They had been there for a training mission during 2018. Ford_Prefect Mar 2022 #4
So let me get this straight, Russia lied??? discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #5
There are people HERE in the US who will say THIS story is the fake one. oldsoftie Mar 2022 #6
I suppose next you're going to tell me other things like... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #7
.... orangecrush Mar 2022 #10
Pravda is the Russian version of Fox-Republican Achilleaze Mar 2022 #8
If you can't even trust Russian Pravda to report the truth IronLionZion Mar 2022 #9
Tonight on Tucker... Mawspam2 Mar 2022 #11
Exactly MLAA Mar 2022 #13
Even worse than the bowling green massacre IronLionZion Mar 2022 #12
Pravda. That explains it.... paleotn Mar 2022 #14
russia is scraping for an excuse. nt Javaman Mar 2022 #15
State flag? Who carries their state's flag with them going into combat? Grins Mar 2022 #16
Idiots from TN rockfordfile Mar 2022 #17

brer cat

(27,175 posts)
1. That is great news.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 05:02 AM
Mar 2022

Putin is really desperate if he is making up dead soldiers out of whole cloth.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
3. Why were they in Ukraine?
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 06:19 AM
Mar 2022

Article says Biden withdrew all US troops (who I assume were on a training mission).

Ford_Prefect

(8,457 posts)
4. All three were NOT in Ukraine in 2022. They had been there for a training mission during 2018.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 06:58 AM
Mar 2022

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 Tennessee’s 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)
5. So let me get this straight, Russia lied???
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 07:22 AM
Mar 2022

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)
6. There are people HERE in the US who will say THIS story is the fake one.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 07:27 AM
Mar 2022

And thats freaking ridiculous.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,692 posts)
7. I suppose next you're going to tell me other things like...
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 07:51 AM
Mar 2022

...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?

IronLionZion

(50,126 posts)
9. If you can't even trust Russian Pravda to report the truth
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 08:17 AM
Mar 2022

that's why Republicans stick with social media memes and viral videos without sources or context.

Mawspam2

(1,048 posts)
11. Tonight on Tucker...
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 08:46 AM
Mar 2022

...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)
12. Even worse than the bowling green massacre
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 08:50 AM
Mar 2022

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

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