The Russian intelligence document that sparked a hoax about French troops

@ElentirENG ES 7·26·2024 · 19:23 0

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Covering up Russian crimes in Ukraine with lies

Unable to achieve the military objectives it set for itself with this invasion and suffering enormous losses, both human and material, the Kremlin is systematically resorting to lies to try to compensate for its poor military performance and to reduce support for Ukraine in the West. One of the lies that Russia has been spreading is to claim the death of foreign soldiers when the Russians attack civilian buildings in Ukraine. Moscow covers up crimes with lies.

Here's an example: On January 17, Russia attacked civilian targets in Kharkiv and Odessa. Images of attacks like those carried out that day were seen around the world. Following this attack, pro-Russian propaganda networks began to spread the word that French soldiers had been killed, even claiming that more French soldiers were dying in Ukraine than in the Algerian War, as a well-known retired Spanish colonel recently claimed, attributing this information to sources he has known for 30 years.

SVR hoax alleging death of French soldiers in Ukraine

On July 11, Spanish tweeter @Eduardo_dlma published a report from the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence service, which made the same reference to the Algerian War: "As the French Ministry of the Armed Forces unofficially admits, the country has not suffered similar losses abroad since the Algerian War in the second half of the 20th century." This is clearly a ridiculous lie. Furthermore, the alleged deployment of French troops in Ukraine has been officially denied by France.

This Friday, the Spanish tweeter @TuiteroMartin, who publishes daily highly rigorous information based on open sources about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, posted the link to the official SVR document revealed by @Eduardo_dlma on July 11. The document is dated March 19 and was issued by the SVR press office.

The path taken by the hoaxes issued by the SVR

This hoax serves to reveal how the lies spread by the Kremlin work. First the SVR spreads the hoax, which is shared for months by pro-Russian propaganda networks in the West, and when they get someone relevant to share it, like that Spanish colonel in reserve, the pro-Russian networks spread it again, emphasizing that it is a NATO commander who says it, as @Eduardo_dlma pointed out some days ago.

The inaction of the Spanish government in the face of these events

The obvious question that comes to mind is: Does the Ministry of Defense have anything to say about the fact that a retired colonel is spreading SVR lies? A soldier in the reserve is subject to military discipline, unlike retired soldiers. For much less than this, in other NATO countries they would have already prosecuted this colonel, but in Spain we have a government capable of burying the entire Russian plot of the 2017 separatist coup in Catalonia in exchange for a handful of votes to guarantee the re-election of Sánchez, the same one responsible for that Spain continues to import Russian gas and finance Putin's war with our money.

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