Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet and one of Russia's most senior navy officers, was shown on Tuesday attending a video conference, a day after Ukrainian special forces said they had killed him.

Apparently Sokolov was only a face on the screen (haven’t seen the video), so prerecorded footage, deepfake or even simple video editing are all possibilities. The rest of Shoiqus quotes are pretty much what you’d expect from him.

Regardless of Sokolov the situation in Crimea seems to be in Ukrainian control, I hope they can close the bridge soon.

    • Alchemy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 year ago

      Since when did reuters start giving lip service to russian propaganda? They showed an undated, unverifiable video chat.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        141·
        1 year ago

        To be fair, the Ukrainian claim is also unverified.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
          10·
          1 year ago

          It’s about level of believability though.

          Ukraine has blown up the naval headquarters so the claim that that they killed the naval commander is not particularly unrealistic.

          Meanwhile Russia claims they didn’t kill him, and he’s still alive, and the evidence for this is a video.

          So we have to ask ourselves what is the likelihood that the naval military commander would be in the naval command base. And compare that to what the probability that Russia had a recorded video of him.