British volunteers have been blamed for a missile strike that killed 35 people at a Ukrainian training facility because their phone signals gave away the base’s location.
Whoops.
“Between 12 to 14 British phone numbers starting with the +44 national dialling code were visible to surveillance equipment a short time before the Russian missile strike on the Yavoriv training facility in western Ukraine on the 13th of March,” reports Breitbart.
“Mercenaries who were contracted by the Wagner Group, a military company linked to Moscow, may have been operating nearby at the time of the strike, according to reports, and specialists fear they would have been able to pick up, locate, and target a concentrated group of British mobile phone signals and pass the information to Russian forces.”
The story once again highlights the danger of badly trained foreign volunteers traveling to the front lines of a hot war.
Following President Zelensky’s call for foreign fighters to join the cause, the legacy media in the west breathlessly amplified the moral crusade of Brits and Americans making perilous journeys in the name of ‘supporting Ukraine’.
The Biden White House also held a meeting with TikTok influencers, telling them to bolster NATO propaganda narratives and encourage their young audience to do their bit to ‘support Ukraine’.
🇬🇧Callum Morris, 23, from Bow
“I’ve been watching it on the news, I had a feeling in my gut,” he said. “Women and children are dying – that’s what done it for me, I can’t stand it.”
The amateur boxer shrugged when asked about his family. “It is what it is,” he said.
— i newspaper (@theipaper) March 3, 2022
