The Sun - Ryssland förintade Kievs patriotförsvarssystem

After the Ukrainian claims (which their own air force refutes) that a Kinzhal missile was intercepted by a Patriot system, the new narrative from Psychological Operations is to spread word that a number of Russian scientists who had been involved in the development of the Kinzhal have been arrested for treason.

As with all POG narratives, it is spreading as wildfire, as it is designed to do, and as with all such narratives, it is of course rooted in a grain of truth.

Indeed, three such men have been arrested on suspicion of treason.
Problem: they were arrested last year.

The originating western source for this story is Yahoo news (https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/3-scientists-behind-putins-unstoppable-131941440.html#:~:text=They%20said%20that%20that%2 0the,were%2 0arrested%20on%20false%20charges.&text=The%20scien tists%20had%20coordinated%20research,Kinzhal%20mis sile%20systems%2C%20Reuters%20repo rted), who tell a “news” story almost a year old and convienently do not mention that this is not “news” anymore but archival.

Now twitter bots and NAFO zombies have co-opted this story, but in their addled brains convienently leave out the names and dates of arrest involved to create the illusion that these men are being arrested after a Kinzhal interception (which did not occur) as opposed to Summer and Autumn of last year.

Hat tip: Ruslan Onischenko, SLG Chat. My personal gratitude to them for the research.