A new fake of the Russian Federation. Leopard with a foreign crew allegedly destroyed in Ukraine – Germany reacts
Russian state media began spreading the lie that a Leopard tank with a German crew was destroyed in Ukraine. However, the German Ministry of Defense promptly responded to this disinformation and issued a statement debunking the new Russian fake.
This is a fable voiced by Russian propagandists on Saturday. The Kremlin media reported that allegedly the Russian Armed Forces intelligence officers “destroyed a Leopard tank transferred to Ukraine with a fully German crew consisting of the German Armed Forces”.
Western journalists asked the German Ministry of Defense for clarification on such publications about the “Bundeswehr crew.”
“There are no German tank crews in Ukraine,” one of the German Defense Ministry officials said in response.
What the propagandists have come up with this time
The fake story about the “German tank crew” in the Russian media stated that the story was told by one of the Russian occupiers fighting in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine. Allegedly, he “speaks German well,” and claimed that the entire crew of the destroyed Ukrainian Armed Forces Leopard tank was killed, and that the seriously wounded driver seemed to start screaming: “Nicht schießen,” meaning “Don’t shoot” in German.
In addition, the ‘scout’ said that the ‘mechanic’ told him a story that he was a ‘Bundeswehr soldier’ and the entire tank crew was ‘from the same company’ and then died of blood loss.
