Ukrainian military. File photoMOSCOW, 8 Mar. The son of former US President Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., published a meme on Telegram ridiculing the current head of the White House, Joe Biden, and statements by the Ukrainian army about the progress of the Russian special operation. elections in the United States, as well as three frames related to the situation in the former Soviet republic. The first shows a military pilot with the caption «ghost of Kyiv», who, according to official Kyiv, without presenting any evidence, allegedly distinguished himself in air battles with the VKS Russia. The second frame shows a view of the Zmeiny Island, where, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, all 13 border guards who were on the island, allegedly refusing to surrender, were killed during a Russian special operation, for which they were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. However, as the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, later said, 82 military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine stationed in the area voluntarily laid down their arms and surrendered to a unit of the Russian Armed Forces.
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was caught on a fake about a Russian plane. The third photo shows Ukrainian model Anastasia Lenna with a weapon in her hands, who in 2015 represented the country at the Miss Grand International beauty pageant. According to a number of Western media and Internet users, the picture shows that the girl probably joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine and is participating in hostilities. In fact, the photo was taken before the start of the Russian special operation, and in the hands of Lenna is an airsoft gun, which Trump Jr. also drew attention to.
"Things that actually never existed&# 34;, — the son of the ex-US President signed a collage of photos of Biden and three pictures related to Ukraine.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, civilian the population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian President emphasized.