It is reported that in his Twitter an American billionaire commented on the situation in Bakhmut and approved the actions of the Russian army: “[City] is almost surrounded. This is good". We checked whether Musk really said this.
February 28, 2023 Belarusian service "Constantinople" wrotethat Elon Musk “bent Kyiv” with the words about the situation in the city of Bakhmut (until 2016 - Artyomovsk, the same name is used by many Russian pro -government media). The publication claims that the head of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter posted in his post a map of battles in the Donbass and a comment that the city was "almost surrounded. This is good". Thus, the businessman allegedly caused a flurry of offensive comments addressed to his Ukrainians. Similar notes were also published in publications "Federal Press" And "Russian spring". A slightly different version was stated by the Moscow editorial office of Constantinople: there Reportedthat Musk commented on the card from the post of the Warmaps account with the words "[Bakhmut] is almost surrounded." And then in response to one of the users to this tweet allegedly added: "This is good."
In social networks, the news diverges in a shortened version: “Ilon Musk wrote on Twitter that Bakhmut was almost surrounded and“ it's good ”. At the same time, publications are accompanied by a screenshot where the corresponding tweets of the businessman and the map are visible. According to the TGSTAT service, in Telegram posts about these words the mask received a total of several million views, and among the channels that placed the screenshot - “Militarist" Voblya, "Bullet","Truthfulness","Evgeny Prigozhin in Telegram🇷🇺","Urgent news","Russia now","Uncle Glory","Scott Ritter in Telegram","Putin in Telegram","Sheikh Tamir","Sexton","Bocharik (yeah, the same)","Ukraine.ru","Yakov Kedmi","Coachman" And Zergulio. Also similar publications appeared on Twitter (examples here, here And here) and "VKontakte" (here, here And here).
The viral screenshot really shows a map of military operations in the Bakhmut area, as well as two separate tweets of the mask: the first - “almost surrounded”, the second - “this is good”. If you don’t know how Twitter works, then, looking at this picture, you might think that the billionaire himself laid out the card and commented on it. However, the matter was not so, although the screenshot is genuine.
February 28, 2023 in the English-speaking Twitter account War Mapper (and not Warmaps, as Tsargrad wrote), specializing in the daily update of the warpan in Ukraine, Published Another tweet of the situation at the front. The signature read: “A map of an approximate local situation in Ukraine as of 00:00 UTC 02.28.23. Since the last update, no noticeable changes in the control of [territories] have occurred. ” In the remnants to this tweet War Mapper Laid The second image: “A map of the approximate situation around the city of Bakhmut close -up. The Russian Federation took control of residential areas in the north. ” It is this map of MASK and Commented The words "almost surrounded" at 10:45 Moscow time. On the viral screenshot, it was just indicated that the businessman's tweet was in response to the post of War Mapper (Replying to @war_Mappper).
As for another comment, the mask, it does not apply to the so -called Russian special operation in Ukraine. The screenshot indicates that the phrase "it's good" written In response to the profile Eight Sleep (Replying to @eightsleep) is an official Twitter account of American Company, engaged in the development and production of smart mattresses. There on February 8, 2023 Placed Videraklamis of a special cover for the mattress, which allows you to adjust the bed temperature from 55 ° F (12.8 ºC) to 110 ° F (43.3 ºC). Probably, this device impressed the mask, but it did not find out about it immediately, and therefore left a laudatory comment after almost three weeks. At the same time, the tweet with the words “this is good” was published at 10:17 - about half an hour before the phrase “almost surrounded”.
February 27, in his evening video message, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky saidthat the situation in the Bakhmut direction “is constantly becoming more difficult”: “The enemy constantly destroys everything that can be used to protect our positions, to strengthen and defense.” Before that, in a commentary for RIA Novosti, the founder of the PMC Vagner Evgeny Prigozhin declared About the possible surroundings of Bakhmut in March-April, although, according to him, it is very difficult to “make a guess”.
Thus, the head of Twitter and Tesla really wrote on the blog that the situation for the Ukrainian army in Bakhmut is developing unsuccessfully, but he did not give this a positive assessment.
Photo on the cover: Screenshot "Checked" / @war_Mapper (Twitter)
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