{"id":253621,"date":"2022-05-17T16:08:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253621"},"modified":"2022-05-19T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T05:58:11","slug":"ukraine-for-laughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=253621","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine &#8211; For Laughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An Azov battalion fighter is searched after surrendering to Russian forces in Mariupol<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Moon of Alabama \u2013 May 17, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&#8216;Western&#8217; media are nothing but Zelenski regime megaphones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Liveuamap @Liveuamap &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liveuamap\/status\/1526314065404080130\">21:30 UTC \u00b7 May 16, 2022<\/a><br \/>\nZelensky confirms Azovstal troops <strong>evacuation<\/strong>: \u00abUkraine needs Ukrainian heroes alive. This has been our principle\u00bb<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/liveuamap.com\/en\/2022\/16-may-zelensky-confirms-azovstal-troops-evacuation-ukraine\">https:\/\/liveuamap.com\/en\/2022\/16-may&#8230; via @myroslavapetsa<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The New York Times @nytimes &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1526336507430182912\">22:59 UTC \u00b7 May 16, 2022<\/a><br \/>\nBreaking News: Ukraine ended its \u201ccombat mission\u201d in Mariupol and said fighters were being <strong>evacuated<\/strong>, signaling that the battle at a steel plant was over.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XWTQLrzzLG\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">CNN International @cnni &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnni\/status\/1526346573726240769\">23:39 UTC \u00b7 May 16, 2022<\/a><br \/>\nUkrainian forces say they have ended their &#8220;combat mission&#8221; in besieged Mariupol, as hundreds are <strong>evacuated<\/strong> from the Azovstal steel plant. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fN5qor3ooc\">https:\/\/cnn.it\/3FQALcV<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Reuters @Reuters &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reuters\/status\/1526405919374028800\">3:35 AM \u00b7 May 17, 2022<\/a><br \/>\nUkraine&#8217;s military said it was working to <strong>evacuate<\/strong> all remaining troops from their last stronghold in the besieged port of Mariupol, ceding control of the city to Russia after months of bombardment <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8t4LhnK8M\">https:\/\/reut.rs\/3wlYbUG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the false headline down the <em>Washington Post<\/em> report on the issue is a master piece of propaganda:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/17\/azovstal-mariupol-fighters-ukraine-steelworks\/\"><strong>Ukraine<\/strong> ends bloody battle for Mariupol, <strong>evacuates<\/strong> Azovstal fighters<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ukrainian fighters have ended their weeks-long defense of a besieged steel plant in the strategic port city of Mariupol, as hundreds of combatants \u2014 dozens of them seriously wounded \u2014 were <strong>evacuated<\/strong> from the complex Monday.<\/p>\n<p>One has to read beyond 323 words of falsehood to find out, down in paragraph 7, what really has happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Moscow hasn\u2019t yet publicly responded to the developments in Mariupol, which were described by Russian state media as <strong>an order from Ukrainian military command for its troops to \u201csurrender.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Ukraine\u2019s deputy defense minister, Anna Malyar, said 53 seriously wounded soldiers were taken to a hospital in Novoazovsk, a nearby town <strong>which is controlled by Russian-backed separatists<\/strong>. Another 211 were transported to <strong>another Russian-aligned village<\/strong>, Olenivka, she said. Moscow and Kyiv are brokering a prisoner swap to secure their release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Malyar said officials were still working to <strong>rescue<\/strong> the remaining soldiers, though it is unclear how many are still inside. Ukrainian authorities said last week there were nearly 1,000 holdout fighters in the plant.<\/p>\n<p>The f***ers finally gave up and surrendered unconditionally to the Russian forces as their only alternative was to decease within the next hours or days.<\/p>\n<p>I am sure that the Russian authorities will apply a fine filter to determine who of those prisoners of war are allegeable for war crime prosecutions, de-nazification and a long stay in some north Siberian road builder camp.<\/p>\n<p>There are also rumors of NATO personnel presence in the Azovstal catacombs. They will likely get to know the cellars of the famous Lubyanka building in Moscow before being exchanged in this or that deal with their home countries.<\/p>\n<p>The rest will eventually be exchanged for Russian soldiers who are unfortunately held by the Ukrainian military<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2022\/05\/ukraine-for-laughs.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zelensky regime prefers to say that its fighters in Mariupol are being \u2018evacuated\u2019. That is disingenuous propaganda that glosses over the truth and the western MSM has echoed it. But the Russians aren\u2019t and they\u2019ve just announced that the neo-nazis in the Azovstal steelworks have finally surrendered <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":253624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-The_Media","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253626,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253621\/revisions\/253626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}