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'Russia’s Defense Ministry proudly announced on Tuesday that its troops had destroyed eight Leopard tanks while it fended off a Ukrainian counteroffensive, offering a dramatic video as evidence. But the fearsome tanks shown in the video turned out to
be nothing more than farming equipment: two combine harvesters and a John Deere tractor, according to several pro-Russian military bloggers. “A disgrace, we just have no words,” wrote the popular Military Informer Telegram channel. “Why the fuck
did they pass these off as Leopards?” another pro-Russian channel fumed. The propaganda fail comes after Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, a foe of the country’s top military brass, mocked the Defense Ministry’s claim that Ukraine’s
counteroffensive had been “stopped.” “Judging by the Defense Ministry’s announcement… we already defeated all European armies a long time ago, at a minimum,” Prigozhin said via his press service, quipping that the war can now end because
Russia has “no one left to fight.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/leopard-tanks-russia-claims-it-destroyed-were-actually-tractors
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