Ukrainian MP Deletes Hoax Photo She Claimed Showed Victim of ‘Russian Artillery Attack’

Picture of a book Cover Ukrainian politician attempted to pass off as a victim of the conflict in Ukraine ©Twitter

The latest falsified photo posted by an infamous Ukrainian legislator was widely mocked on Twitter by incredulous users.

A widely-shared photo which claimed to show a child victimized by the Russian military has been deleted by the notoriously-mendacious Ukrainian politician who posted it after social media users discovered it was fraudulent.

“There are no children in #Ukraine anymore,” claimed Lesia Vasylenko, a Ukrainian member of parliament who’s frequently cited in Western media reports on supposed Russian misdeeds. “Pictured: Marc, 8 [years old], just survived a #Russia artillery attack,” she insisted in a since-deleted post which received tens of thousands of likes and retweets.

This Ukrainian member of Parliament posted a photo of a woman tortured and murdered by the nazi regiment of the Ukrainian National Guard a week ago and is passing it off as the Russians’ handiwork

This isn’t a mistake or an aberration—it’s the Ukrainian nationalists’ entire M.O. https://t.co/Layk72i5aS

— Wyatt Reed (@wyattreed13) April 4, 2022

The only problem? The photo was actually over a decade old, as a simple reverse image search shows. In fact, the image seems to have been pulled directly from the Spanish-language cover of a 2008 book called “The Forgotten Man” by novelist Christina McKenna.

It’s far from Vasylenko’s first brush with forgery. As far back as April, she attempted to pass off horrifying war crimes inflicted by the Ukrainian military’s neo-nazi Azov militants as the doing of Russian soldiers.

The notoriously-mendacious legislator is the daughter of Volodymyr Vasylenko, who was at one point not only the Ukrainian Ambassador to NATO and the EU, but a representative to the UN Human Rights Council.

The elder Vasylenko previously sat on the “international tribunal” which oversaw the prosecution of former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milošević and which openly admitted it wouldn’t prosecute NATO nationals.

Despite the extensive reach of Vasylenko’s false post, only independent and non-Western media outlets fact-checked the incorrect claim. Indeed, no Western media outlets even mentioned the post – perhaps due to the fact that, according to Mint Press News, “most of the fact-checking organizations Facebook has partnered with to monitor and regulate information about Ukraine are directly funded by the U.S. government, either through the U.S. Embassy or via the notorious National Endowment for Democracy (NED).”

Jam 2 Siang Harga Pertamax Turun Jadi Rp12.800

Menteri Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) Erick Thohir bersama Direktur Utama PT Pertamina (Persero) Nicke Widyawati usai mengumumkan penurunan harga Pertamax di SPBU Pertamina M.T Haryono, Jakarta, Selasa (3/1/2023)/Bisnis-Nyoman Ary Wahyudi

Mulai pukul 14.00, hari Selasa, 03/01/2023, PT Pertamina (Persero) akan menurunkan harga BBM jenis pertamax dari Rp. 13.900 per liter menjadi Rp. 12.800.

Di SPBU Pertamina MT Haryono, Jakarta Selatan, Erick Tohir Menteri BUMN mengatakan :"Nanti insyaallah harga Pertamax menjadi Rp 12.800. Nanti Bu Nicke (Dirut Pertamina) sampaikan jamnya."

Ia menambahkan penurunan harga pertamax dilakukan setelah harga minyak dunia yang saat perang Rusia dan Ukraina melesat ke atas US$100 per barel, kini turun jadi US$79 per barel.

"Sekarang harga minyak dunia turun ke US$79. Karena itu akhir tahun baru kemarin kita 3 menteri; Menkeu, menteri ESDM, saya memproyeksikan harga BBM yang pasar dan bukan dibantu pemerintah, salah satunya Pertamax diputuskan harga turun," katanya.

Dalam kesempatan yang sama, Direktur Utama PT Pertamina (Persero) Nicke Widyawati mengatakan harga baru Pertamax berlaku pukul 14.00 waktu setempat.

"Nanti mulai jam 2 siang ini, harga Pertamax dari Rp 13.900 menjadi Rp 12.800," tutur Nicke.

Nicke menambahkan harga Pertamax Turbo dan Dexlite juga akan turun. Sementara itu, harga Pertalite dan Solar masih tetap.

"Demikian juga produk-produk seperti Pertamax turbo dan lainnya, dexlite ini juga akan turun," tuturnya.

Bagaimana Pertalite dan Solar?

Penurunan harga Pertamax dan BBM nonsubsidi lainnya turun per hari ini, Selasa, 3 Januari 2022, pukul 14.00 WIB. Publik pun kini menanti penurunan harga BBM bersuibsidi yakni Pertalite dan Solar

PT Pertamina (Persero) menurunkan harga Pertamax dari Rp 13.900 menjadi Rp 12.800 per liter. Tapi harga Pertalite masih Rp 10.000 dan Solar Rp Rp 6.800

Menurut Direktur Utama Pertamina Nicke Widyawati, harga Pertalite dan Solar tidak turun di awal tahun ini karenakan telah mendapatkan subsidi yang besar dari pemerintah.

Dia mencontohkan harga Solar Rp 6.800 per liter setelah disubsidi oleh pemerintah sebesar Rp 6.500.

"Harga dari kompetitor lebih dari dua kali lipat," kata Nicke di SPBU Pertamina MT Haryono, Tebet, Jakarta Selatan, hari ini.

Adapun harga Pertamax Turbo turun dari Rp 15.200 menjadi Rp 14.050 per liter, Dexlite menjadi Rp 16.150, serta Pertamina Dex 16.750.

Menteri BUMN Erick Thohir mengatakan penurunan harga Pertamax seiring dengan perubahan harga pasaran minyak dunia, yang semula USD 87 menjadi USD 79 per barel.

Menurut dia, pemerintah mensubsidi harga jual Pertalite Rp 1.100 per liter sehingga menjadi Rp 10.000.

"Krena pemerintah peduli dengan kondisi ekonomi masyarakat," ucapnya.

Menteri BUMN Erick Thohir menyatakan berencana mengumumkan harga Pertamax dan BBM nonsubsidi lainnya setiap pekan.

Tokyo follows anti-Russian course, discussion of peace treaty impossible – Russian MFA

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Japan does not abandon its anti-Russian course, so any dialogue on a peace treaty is impossible, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko told TASS in an interview.

"It is absolutely obvious that it is impossible to discuss the signing of such a document [peace treaty] with a country that takes an openly unfriendly posture and takes the liberty of uttering direct threats against our country," he said. "We do not see any signs Tokyo may revise its anti-Russian policy or any attempts to correct the current situation."

Rudenko recalled that earlier Russia had been in talks with Japan on a full-fledged comprehensive treaty on peace, friendship and neighborliness, which "would determine the guidelines for an accelerated development of the entire range of Russian-Japanese relations."

"With the start of a special military operation in Ukraine the Kishida administration actively joined a West-orchestrated Russophobic campaign, thus dismantling the results of mutually beneficial cooperation accumulated over years," he added.

Russia and Japan have not formally ended World War Two hostilities because of their standoff over islands, seized by the Soviet Union at the end of the war, just off Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido.

The islands are known in Russia as the Kurils and in Japan as the Northern Territories.

"We are not seeing signs of Tokyo moving away from the anti-Russian course and any attempt to rectify the situation."Andrey Rudenko said.

Russia withdrew from its talks with Japan in March last year, following Japanese sanctions over Russia's special military operation of Ukraine. Japan reacted angrily to the talks, calling Moscow's move 'unfair' and 'completely unacceptable'.

‘Fauci Files’ Will Be Released ‘Later This Week,’ Promises Elon Musk

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The next tranche of Twitter Files is likely to include further information about how US government agencies used social media companies to shape Americans’ attitudes to COVID and manipulate public opinion on their handling of the pandemic.

In response to a user who wrote that they were “waiting... for #FauciFiles,” Musk wrote Monday that audiences could expect to see the information “later this week.”

Waiting …… for #FauciFiles

— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) January 1, 2023

Having been heavily associated with the government’s vacillating and seemingly arbitrary handling of COVID throughout the course of the pandemic, Fauci has become a highly polarizing figure in the US.

Critics of the COVID policies pushed by Fauci point to a number of discrepancies, including his demand that Americans wear masks after initially insisting “there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.”

Fauci later claimed that he didn’t actually believe what he was saying, and that he’d been deceiving the US public in an effort to prevent a shortage of masks, but his private correspondence suggested otherwise.

“The typical mask you buy at a drug store is not really effective at keeping out a virus,” Fauci acknowledged in February 2020 email.

Later, Fauci also admitted to manipulating the target percentage of the US population which he claimed would be required to achieve herd immunity.

“When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” he told the New York Times in December 2020.

“Then, when newer surveys said 60 percent or more would take it, I thought, “I can nudge this up a bit,” so I went to 80, 85.

One topic likely to be encompassed in any newly-released Twitter files is an October 2020 email by Dr. Francis Collins – then Director of the National Institutes of Health – which ordered Fauci to produce a “quick and devastating published take down [sic]” of the Great Barrington Declaration, an open letter published by epidemiologists who opposed the strategy of using widespread lockdowns to combat COVID outbreaks.

Musk turned to Twitter to tell users, "Hope you’re having a great day 1 2023! One thing’s for sure, it won’t be boring.

One Twitter user replied to Musk’s tweet, saying she was,"Waiting… … for #FauciFiles,"

Robert Kennedy Jr: 'Anthony Fauci blocked early treatment to create a $98 Billion vaccine industry' pic.twitter.com/SS9TwQ70jT

— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) December 31, 2022

"Later this week," Musk replied.

In what is now called the "Twitter Files," journalists tapped by Musk address various controversies including internal discussions at Twitter regarding the censorship of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2022 presidential election and the social media company's decision to ban former President Trump from tweeting after his role in the Capitol invasion on Jan. 6, 2021.

The most recent Twitter File release focused on how both the Trump and Biden administrations leaned on Twitter to moderate content during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hope you’re having a great day 1 2023!

One thing’s for sure, it won’t be boring.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 1, 2023

Recent tweets from Musk also appear to be growing in numbers as he attacks Fauci.

On Dec. 29, Musk asserted that Twitter employees had an internal "Fauci Fan Club," before tweeting that Twitter’s new policy was "to follow the science, which necessarily includes reasoned questioning of the science."

Evolutionary behavioral scientist Gad Saad appeared to joke about the dogmatic way scientific experts were treated amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

"The science is anything that His Eminence Lord Fauci says it is," Saad said. "His Excellency is science."

What Drs. Fauci and Collins did to @DrJBhattacharya and colleagues should send shivers down the spines of scientists everywhere…if they have them. Watch the full conversation “Follow Science, Not Scientists!” 👇 https://t.co/3nhvGEyJFO pic.twitter.com/aL7yTUaHSk

— Prof. Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) January 2, 2023

Musk responded by observing, "Anyone who says that questioning them is questioning science itself cannot be regarded as a scientist."

The Twitter CEO also mocked Fauci on Friday, calling him "creepy" after the New York Times reported that his home office was decorated with fan portraits of himself

Malika Berhasil Ditemukan Selamat Penculik Yudi Alias Iwan Ditangkap

Malika, bocah enam tahun korban penculikan tiba di RS Polri, Kramat Jati, Jakarta Timur, Selasa, 3 Januari 2023.

Iwan Sumarno alias Jacky alias Herman alias Yudi penculik bocah enam tahun berinisial M atau Malika berhasil ditangkap polisi. Iwan ditangkap setelah buron beberapa hari.

Hal itu dibenarkan Kepala Satuan Reserse Kriminal Polres Metro Jakarta Pusat, Ajun Komisaris Besar Polisi Gunarto.

"Pelaku sudah kami tangkap," kata dia kepada wartawan, Senin 2 Januari 2023.

Kata Gunarto, pelaku ditangkap di kawasan Ciledug. Penangkapan dilakukan malam ini. Dalam penangkapan ini, polisi pun menemukan korban. Kata dia, saat ditemukan korban dalam keadaan sehat.

Malika Ditemukan dalam Gerobak yang Ditarik Penculik di Pinggir Jalan Ciledug

Akhirnya Malika Anatasya yang lama hilang diculik pemulung, berhasil ditemukan oleh pihak kepolisian setelah mengetahui jejak pelaku penculikan bocah usia 6 tahun tersebut.

Menurut Kasat Reskrim Polres Jakarta Pusat AKBP Gunarto, Malika ditemukan di dalam gerobak yang sedang ditarik oleh pelaku, Iwan Sumarno alias Jacky alias Herman alias Yudi.

Iwan diketahui sedang memulung saat ditangkap oleh pihak kepolisian di kawasan Cipadu, Ciledug, Tangerang Selatan, pada hari Senin malam, 02/01/2023.

"Kami tangkap tadi di pinggir jalan. Malika di dalam gerobak yang ditarik pelaku sambil memulung," ujar Gunarto saat dihubungi, seperti dikutip dari Wartakotalive, Senin.

Saat ditemukan, Malika dalam kondisi sehat. Namun kepolisian segera membawanya ke RS Polri Kramat Jati untuk mengetahui kondisi kesehatannya secara fisik dan psikologis.

Dinsos Jakarta Utara Ikut Mencari Keberadaan Malika yang Diculik Seorang Pemulung

Suku Dinas Sosial Jakarta Utara ikut mencari keberadaan Malika Anastasya, bocah berusia 6 tahun yang diculik seorang pria di Gunung Sahari Jakarta Utara.

Tim Pelayanan, Pengawasan dan Pengendalian Sosial (P3S) Suku Dinas Sosial Jakarta Utara ikut mencari Malika di sejumlah lokasi pemulung pada Senin kemarin, 2 Januari 2023.

Komandan Pleton Tim Reaksi Cepat P3S Sudinsos Jakarta Utara Tommy Ariyanto mengatakan pencarian diilakukan setelah Polres Resor Metro Jakarta Pusat merilis identitas pelaku penculikan Mailak adalah IS yang diduga pemulung di kawasan Jakarta Utara.

Tommy mengatakan, anggota Tim Reaksi Cepat telah membagikan foto penculik dan Malika kepada setiap pemulung yang dilakukan saat operasi menyisir para penyandang masalah kesejahteraan sosial (PMKS).

"Kami minta apabila ada yang melihat korban, agar segera melaporkan kepada pihak berwajib," kata Tommy seperti dikutip dari Antara, Senin, 2 Januari 2023.

Salah seorang pemulung yang ditanyai petugas P3S Sudinsos Jakut di kawasan Koja, Udin Syihabudin 46 tahun, mengenali wajah Malika dari foto yang ditunjukkan oleh petugas P3S Sudinsos Jakut di jalan yang ada kawasan tersebut.

"Saya cuma kenal mukanya saja, memang anak di foto itu jalan dua hari lalu di jalan," kata Udin kepada petugas P3S Sudinsos Jakut.

Mendapati informasi dari Udin, petugas P3S Sudinsos Jakut pun langsung bergerak menyisir kawasan Koja yang dimaksud.

Namun, petugas P3S Sudinsos Jakut belum memperoleh hasil dari pencarian Malika korban penculikan pada Senin ini. Selanjutnya, Tommy memastikan anggotanya akan terus menyisir kawasan yang diduga rawan Penyandang Masalah Kesejahteraan Sosial (PMKS) di Jakarta Utara itu setiap hari.

Russian troops destroy Polish-made Krab howitzer in Kherson Region – top brass

Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces destroyed a Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer in the Kherson Region, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported on Monday.

"A Polish-made Krab self-propelled howitzer was destroyed near Antonovka in the Kherson Region," Konashenkov said.

Also, four Ukrainian D-30 howitzers were destroyed in firing positions near Serebryanka in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), he added.

Russian troops eliminate over 40 Ukrainian servicemen near Krasny Liman, top brass says

The Russian Armed Forces hit the 13th and the 95th air assault brigades in the Lugansk People’s Republic and the Donetsk People’s Republic, while advancing toward Krasny Liman, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Monday.

According to him, more than 40 Ukrainian service members were eliminated, with three armored personnel carriers and two pickups destroyed in the Russian artillery attack.

Special operations, January 1st. The main thing:

The day before, the RF Armed Forces attacked Ukrainian defense industrial facilities involved in manufacturing attack drones. The aim of the attack has been achieved, Kyiv's plan to carry out a terrorist attack against Russia in the near future has been thwarted, says the Ministry of Defense.

Russian troops continue to advance towards Donetsk, Ukrainian troops suffer defeats in the Kupyansky, Krasno-Limansky directions, says the Russian Defense Ministry

The Russian Armed Forces in the South-Donetsk direction managed to repel a counterattack by the Ukrainian army on the Dorozhnyanka settlement in the Zaporozhye region.

Artillery of the Russian Federation destroys the American counter-battery station in Donbass

Ukraine's energy system has suffered unprecedented damage, it may take years to restore it, said Ukrenergo.

Ukrainian troops shelled Svatovo, firing 5 rockets from HIMARS MLRS, says LPR.

DPR reports that Ukrainian forces fired 25 MLRS missiles at Donetsk.

Special operations, January 2st. The main thing:

In Makiivka, DPR, as a result of an attack by Ukrainian troops with a multiple launch rocket system, 63 Russian soldiers died, says the Russian Defense Ministry.

In the Kupyansk and Krasnolimansk directions, Ukrainian troops lost 70 men.

In the South Donetsk direction, the RF Armed Forces destroyed more than 40 Ukrainian military, three armored fighting vehicles.

Military of the Russian Federation in the Donetsk direction carried out offensive operations, Ukrainian losses per day amounted to 70 military personnel and 9 equipment.

Russian missile and artillery forces destroyed two arsenals and two Ukrainian military fuel storage facilities in the Zaporozhye and Dnipropetrovsk regions

Ukrainian troops fired on Donetsk, Makeyevka, Yasinovataya, Rubizhne, reported in the LPR and DPR, provided there were casualties.

The Bryansk region was attacked by a Ukrainian drone that damaged an energy supply facility in one of the districts, the governor said.

More than 70 foreign mercenaries were killed and more than 100 injured in attacks on temporary deployment points of "foreign legion" units in Markovo, Kramatorsk region of the DPR, as well as in the Kharkiv region, according to Russian reports Ministry of Defence

At Least 63 Russian Troops Died in Ukrainian Strike on Makeevka, MoD Says

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Ukraine shelled the area with six HIMARS rockets, while the Russian air defense systems managed to shoot down two of the missiles.

"As a result of shelling of the temporary deployment unit by four missiles with high-explosive warheads, 63 Russian servicemen were killed. All necessary assistance and support will be provided to the families and relatives of the deceased military personnel," the ministry said in a statement.

Ukrainian Orthodox Priest Suffers Knife Attack in Vinnitsa

An archpriest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate was attacked by an unknown knife-armed man in the western-central Ukrainian city of Vinnitsa and subsequently hospitalized in critical condition.

"The cleric of the Eparchy of Vinnitsa, archpriest Anthony Kovtonyuk, was assaulted. The priest was stabbed," the eparchy said in a statement.

The incident occurred after the attacker entered the Church of the Intercession of the Mother of God in Vinnitsa and started to cause ruckus, behaving inappropriately. When the archpriest attempted to rebuke the man, the perpetrator stabbed the cleric in the throat, according to the statement.

Ukrainian Drone Damages Power Supply Facility in Russia's Bryansk Region, Governor Says

A Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has carried out an attack in the Klimovsky District of Russia's Bryansk Region, located near the border with Ukraine, damaging a power supply facility, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said.

"This morning, a Ukrainian UAV attacked the Klimovsky district. There were no casualties. All emergency services are working on the spot. As a result of the strike, a power supply facility was damaged, and there is no electricity in the village," Bogomaz said on Telegram on Monday morning.

Air defenses downed a Ukrainian drone approaching the Russian city of Voronezh, the regional government said in a statement on Monday.

"Last night, air defenses detected and downed a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle approaching Voronezh, which had been launched from Ukraine," the statement reads.

The regional government added that there were no casualties or damage and the situation remained under control.

Ukrainian military shells DPR territory 14 times in three hours

The Ukrainian Armed Forces shelled the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) 14 times in three hours on Monday, the DPR mission to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination said on Monday.

According to the mission, the Ukrainian military shelled the city of Donetsk five times between 12:10 pm and 3:10 pm, firing 25 NATO-standard 155 mm artillery shells.

Makeyevka came under Ukrainian fire twice and Gorlovka came under attack three times. Twenty-two 152 mm and 155 mm munitions were fired at the two cities. The Ukrainian army also attacked Panteleimonovka, Yasinovataya, Yakovlevka and Mineralnoye, firing a total of twenty-four 155 mm munitions.

The Russian MoD’s briefing on the progress of the special military operation in Ukraine:

• Russian Forces performed a high precision strike temporary deployments of foreign mercenaries in the DPR and in the Kharkov region, eliminating more than 70 foreign mercenaries and wounding more than 100 foreign mercenaries;



• The Russian Army eliminated up to 30 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed two Ukrainian armored combat vehicles and three other vehicles near Kupyansk;









• Russian troops eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed three armored carriers and two pick-up trucks near Krasny Liman;



• Russian Forces eliminated up to 70 Ukrainian troops, as well as destroyed four infantry combat vehicles and five other vehicles near Donetsk;



• The Russian Army eliminated more than 40 Ukrainian servicemen, as well as destroyed three armored combat vehicles and two pick-up trucks in the DPR;



• Russian troops destroyed two Ukrainian artillery ammunition depots;



• Russian Forces destroyed two US-made M777 artillery systems in the DPR;



• The Russian Army destroyed a Krav self-propelled howitzer in the Kherson region, as well as four Ukrainian D-30 howitzers in the DPR;



• Russian air defenses destroyed 15 Ukrainian UAVs.