I have shared on here previously how russia is able to use social media to amplify bullshit. This is a great example. As you can see in the translations above, Russia fears the arrival of HIMARS and Caesar heavy weaponry for not only the obvious military reasons but also because it does much to undermine one of the predominant narratives they have been working on since the beginning of the conflict: Europe/US will eventually abandon Ukraine. For France, the delivery of French made heavy weapons is also a boost for domestic morale.
France recently delivered Caesars to Ukraine:
Ukraine on Wednesday showed off one of its new French-made self-propelled howitzers, firing towards Russian-controlled areas, as Kyiv urges Western countries to provide more military hardware.
As the war in Ukraine continues in the eastern Donbas region, Ukrainian soldiers are defending themselves against Russian troops with weapons delivered by Western countries, including France. One Ukrainian…
www.france24.com
The weapons were well received and Macron even promised to deliver 6 more:
“On top of the 12 Caesars already delivered, I took the decision (to deliver) in the coming weeks six additional Caesars,” Macron told a news conference alongside Ukraine’s President
Volodymyr Zelensky, German Chancellor
Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister
Mario Draghi, and Romanian leader
Klaus Iohannis.
France will deliver "six additional Caesar" long-range self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine to help it counter the Russian invasion.
www.thedefensepost.com
The Ukrainians start to do some damage with modern heavy weaponry so of course the bullshit begins
Unknown French lawyer/politician posts this
Naturally the bullshit is then picked up by pro russian indian blogs
Russian troops have already captured two Caesar self-propelled guns recently delivered from France in Ukraine, said the
frontierindia.com
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www.defenceview.in
The Cesar has a range of up to 40KM (about 25 miles). So, as it is obviously bullshit that the russians somehow penetrated 25 miles behind the Ukrainian lines and captured 2, more bullshit begins. When the obvious question of why no images exist of the "captured" Caesars:
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The French government offered a statement yesterday on how ridiculous this is but obviously the people who believe this will not be swayed by it:
France’s General Staff has denied reports of a French Caesar self-propelled howitzer being captured by Russian forces in Ukraine, Russian media outlet TASS reported on June 24.
www.yahoo.com
They do this with everything they fear:
Fear of foreign fighters flooding into Ukraine:
Bullshit claim to have killed 214 Americans.
Fear of foreign made drones especially the Bayraktar:
Fake claims to have destroyed multiple drones even ones not yet delivered.
Russian forces apparently tried to create the impression they’ve shot down more of Ukraine’s original three dozen or so TB-2s than they actually have done, all by staging old drone wreckage in a very sloppy mimicry of a recent crash.
www.forbes.com
Last month saw an increase in the flow of disinformation in Lithuania, with targets including the Bayraktar combat drone...
www.lrt.lt