Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and one of Russia's most senior navy officers, was shown on Tuesday attending a video conference, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him.

Apparently Sokolov was only a face on the screen (haven’t seen the video), so prerecorded footage, deepfake or even simple video editing are all possibilities. The rest of Shoiqus quotes are pretty much what you’d expect from him.

Regardless of Sokolov the situation in Crimea seems to be in Ukrainian control, I hope they can close the bridge soon.

  • Optional
    26•2 years ago

    The cardboard-cutout-on-a-stick was judged a success by reuters I guess.

    • @[email protected]English
      18•2 years ago

      Since when did reuters start giving lip service to russian propaganda? They showed an undated, unverifiable video chat.

        • neuropean
          2•2 years ago

          Exactly, though you have to wonder what proof they had to make the claim.

        • Echo Dot
          10•2 years ago

          It’s about level of believability though.

          Ukraine has blown up the naval headquarters so the claim that that they killed the naval commander is not particularly unrealistic.

          Meanwhile Russia claims they didn’t kill him, and he’s still alive, and the evidence for this is a video.

          So we have to ask ourselves what is the likelihood that the naval military commander would be in the naval command base. And compare that to what the probability that Russia had a recorded video of him.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•2 years ago

          Disgusting. Thanks for sharing, I’ll mentally flag every reuters article as potentially flawed at best, purely misleading at worst.