kravietz 🦇 on Nostr: An interesting hoax by #Russia propagandists who write about “the Russian army ...
An interesting hoax by #Russia propagandists who write about “the Russian army taking control of #Ukraine’s largest #lithium deposits in the village of #Shevchenko”.
Below is a headline from a Russian portal in English talking of this achievement, with even Denis Pushilin himself officially boasting about it in Russia. Even some Ukrainian media have repeated this without checking.
Russians even posted a map to add credibility to their victory. And indeed, the Russian army has practically taken the village of Shevchenko near #Pokrovsk. The only problem is that the map of Pokrovsk area looks completely different than the one posted about lithium reserves.
Upon checking, the secret turned out to be very simple - the lithium deposits are indeed in a village of Shevchenko, only quite elsewhere, north-west of Velika Novoselka, in Ukrainian-controlled territory. Such is the charm of the Donbas that the same village names are repeated in completely different places (my map below shows three).
The Russians have published a map in such low resolution that it is difficult to see anything there, so I attach the original, where you can clearly see the town of ‘Velika Novosilka’ south-east of the deposit - the map is from a publicly available report by the Ukrainian Geological Survey:
https://www.geo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SHEVCHENKIVSKE_license.pdf
Below is a headline from a Russian portal in English talking of this achievement, with even Denis Pushilin himself officially boasting about it in Russia. Even some Ukrainian media have repeated this without checking.
Russians even posted a map to add credibility to their victory. And indeed, the Russian army has practically taken the village of Shevchenko near #Pokrovsk. The only problem is that the map of Pokrovsk area looks completely different than the one posted about lithium reserves.
Upon checking, the secret turned out to be very simple - the lithium deposits are indeed in a village of Shevchenko, only quite elsewhere, north-west of Velika Novoselka, in Ukrainian-controlled territory. Such is the charm of the Donbas that the same village names are repeated in completely different places (my map below shows three).
The Russians have published a map in such low resolution that it is difficult to see anything there, so I attach the original, where you can clearly see the town of ‘Velika Novosilka’ south-east of the deposit - the map is from a publicly available report by the Ukrainian Geological Survey:
https://www.geo.gov.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/SHEVCHENKIVSKE_license.pdf