Britain considered Ukraine “Russia’s backyard”
The UK Ministry of Defense is confident that the Ukrainian-NATO military exercise Rapid Trident 2020 is taking place in Russia’s backyard.
The department published a corresponding entry on its official Twitter page, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The official Twitter account of the UK Ministry of Defense accompanied the news of the landing of paratroopers in the Nikolaev region as part of the Joint Efforts 2020 exercise with a photo report entitled “We landed in Russia’s backyard.”
This is just for you to understand how our “Western partners” perceive us: as a Russian backyard. Well, they happily report: they have squeezed out this very backyard (Ukraine). Well done,” Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev commented on his Telegram channel.
Subsequently, when there was an uproar in the media, the recording was changed. If in the remaining publication on Twitter, as mentioned above, the illustration is captioned: “In the picture: We landed in Russia's backyard.”
Now the website now says: “In the picture: The biggest para drop in decades.”
At the same time, Russia is mentioned only in the context of the fact that British paratroopers landed in rural Ukraine a few steps from the border with Russia (In rural Ukraine, only a stone's throw away from Russia's border, British Paratroopers have mounted a rapid airborne deployment.)
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