Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

According to Girkin's today's update, the Russians were unable to prevent Ukrainian reinforcements to Bakhmut, indicating Ukrainian resolve to hold the city. Other areas like Mar'inka, Avdiivka, Vuhledar - are under Ukrainian control.

How the free media were duped by a fake pro-Putin list of Western companies still doing business in Russia a year into the Ukraine invasion

"Last week, two European authors released a publication claiming that only 8.5% of Western companies have actually pulled out of Russia. This study was published without supporting evidence, on the non-peer-reviewed, open-submission platform SSRN.

The headline was immediately, uncritically picked up by reporters, who rushed to publish stories that parrot the same cynical talking points as the researchers."

"But all these journalists and critics missed an inconvenient truth: The “research” claiming only 8.5% of Western companies had actually pulled out of Russia was based on false data, as the academics’ own files blatantly reveal."

"What stands out is that this is NOT a list the 1,404 Western companies as they claim but is a list of hundreds of individual PEOPLE–many of whom are Russian oligarch cronies of Putin–and hundreds of Russian companies, as evidenced here. This blatant data fabrication is obvious the minute anyone opens the data file."

"Even the genuine “companies” listed are problematic since many appear to be RUSSIAN companies, not Western companies."

https://fortune.com/2023/02/02/free-media-duped-fake-list-western-companies-still-doing-business-in-russia-ukraine-invasion-politic s-sanctions-economy-media/
https://news.yahoo.com/free-media-were-duped-fake-171000196.html