Interestingly, #Russia state media now seem to be pushing a story about a structural collapse of the #Dnipro Novaya Kakhovka dam. A masked soldier presented as commander of the Russian unit guarding the dam says "first one gate was torn, which was already damaged, then third, fourth, fifth... In 15 minutes cracks appeared in the walls". What he says directly contradicts the version voiced by Russian officials, that the dam was destroyed by a massive strike of Ukrainian rockets (that nobody saw).
It's rather pointless to try to find any factual information in a staged interview, but it's interesting to see Russian propaganda apply the same set of techniques they applied in case of #MH17: throw a dozen of contradictory and mutually exclusive versions, until nothing makes sense for their goodwill audience.
As there's lots of evidence to support the narrative that incriminates them, the most successful tactics is to flood the public space in Russia with so much chaff that the only thought that remains in the heads of loyal population is "we will never know all truth"...
In Russian: https://theins.ru/news/262500
P.S. meanwhile Russian forces have blown up another dam on Mokrye Yaly river south from Blagodatne, recently liberated by Ukraine...
It's rather pointless to try to find any factual information in a staged interview, but it's interesting to see Russian propaganda apply the same set of techniques they applied in case of #MH17: throw a dozen of contradictory and mutually exclusive versions, until nothing makes sense for their goodwill audience.
As there's lots of evidence to support the narrative that incriminates them, the most successful tactics is to flood the public space in Russia with so much chaff that the only thought that remains in the heads of loyal population is "we will never know all truth"...
In Russian: https://theins.ru/news/262500
P.S. meanwhile Russian forces have blown up another dam on Mokrye Yaly river south from Blagodatne, recently liberated by Ukraine...
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@kravietz Exactly! They use the same technique over again and again, same trick as with MH17. There was a popular image on that, I don't have it at hand, it was in a form of an Excel table with three columns: UA version, EU version and RU version. UA version was "MH17 was brought down by separatists with Russian BUK", EU version is vague in the beginning, but gains details with every iteration, RU — 15 totally different random versions, sometimes the next one contradicts the previous one.
@m0xee
True, I remember that spreadsheet - that was a pretty nice way to demonstrate how it worked…