On March 4, a message diverged in the media and social networks with reference to British intelligence, which said the possible territorial exchange between Russia and Ukraine: Russian troops will leave the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions, and Ukraine will not claim Crimea. We decided to check if this information is true.
The screenshot of the daily British intelligence report appeared on the morning of March 4 in the Ukrainian Telegram channel "Truha Zaporozhye". An hour later, the Telegram channel wrote about this "Insider UA" - without a screenshot, but with reference to the reconnaissance report. On the same day, both publications were deleted. They managed to write about this per day Ukrainian, Azerbaijani And Israeli Media.
The message that is attributed to British intelligence itself consists of four points. They say that Putin is trying to push Ukraine and its Western allies to negotiations. In particular, there is a proposal to exchange the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions to the Crimea. Apparently, it means that Kyiv will refuse claims to the Crimea, this is not specifically indicated in the text. At the same time, the report said, the Kremlin does not refuse to completely occupy the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Then it is told about the difficult economic situation of Russia, in which it was due to Western sanctions. Finally, the main conclusion is this: Putin’s main goal for 2023 is not to lose power and to maintain under control the social and economic situation in Russia. “The proposal to give part of the territories (Zaporozhye and the Kherson region) in exchange for mitigation of sanctions is studied,” the published message says.
At first glance, the summary is similar to the real one. The color scheme, design and font are indistinguishable from ordinary daily messages that the British Ministry of Defense publishes Twitter. Here, for example, is fresh Summary For March 6:
However, in the text of the message that dispersed through the social networks there are a lot of inconsistencies that the Ukrainian agency paid attention to UNIAN. First of all, this concerns the spelling of the names. The British Ministry of Defense broadcasts Ukrainian names: for example, Vogledar Instead of Ugro.
In the text of the Zaporozhye screenshot, which was dispersed along social networks and the media, is written in two different ways: Zaporozhye and Zaporizhzhia. The first case is the transfer of Russian spelling, the second is Ukrainian. In one case, the Kherson region is indicated as Kherson Oblast, in the other as Kherson Oblast (which, however, could be attributed to a typo). The transfers of words that are usually not used in English are also embarrassed. In any case, they could not find them in other reports of British intelligence. Finally, the text has a strange abbreviation RF, denoting the Russian Federation. In English, it, as a rule, is not found, and in other reports, the British Ministry of Defense writes Russia.
Finally, a theme is an atypical theme atypical for military intelligence. Typically, the reports say the situation at the front, the supply of military equipment, about the tactics and strategies of Russian and Ukrainian troops. The political conditions of a possible peace agreement do not belong to the competence of the Ministry of Defense.
But the main argument in favor of the fact that this is a fake is very simple. On Twitter of the British Ministry of Defense Intelligence report for March 4 It’s completely different, it says not about the Kremlin’s political proposals, but about the situation under the city of Bakhmut, where at that moment there were heavy battles.
Thus, the message attributed to British intelligence is a fake, and compiled with gross mistakes. The Telegram channels, through which the fake dispersed, deleted their posts for several hours, but the media, who believed in it, did not do this.
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