Russian propaganda lie: Bayraktar, for whom Lithuanians raised money, has already been shot down

Deception because it is impossible?

“Hundreds of Lithuanians collected 4.7 million in three and a half days. dollars to buy the unmanned Bayraktar in Ukraine. He was shot down 3.5 minutes after his first rise. “

It is presented as an “anonymous Twitter channel” that publishes “fictional news.” Commenters did not seem to pay attention to this detail and took the message seriously.

A number of Lithuanians or people who know the history of buying Bayraktar have joined the Russian commentator. They explained that the plane had not even been bought yet.

The record that the expensive purchase of Bayraktar has already been knocked down has also received a reaction from fundraising initiator Andrius Tapinas.

“Unfortunately, we see sad news,” he said in his Facebook account on Monday. – Russian propaganda on social networks is massively spreading the message that our Bayraktaras has already been shot down and has only been in the air for 3.5 minutes.

It takes incredible anti-aircraft artillery to be able to shoot down an unmanned aircraft that has not yet been bought and is in the factory. ”

The journalist, the writer, pointed out that “this hurts a lot for them Bayraktaro fact ”. The “storms in the social networks, what nonsense here and that Lithuanians without food have thrown the last money for such a thing and the economy will now finally collapse, are left 3 … 2 … 1 and have already collapsed”.

In the words of A. Tapinas, “our fifth column has another narrative” – ​​that the fundraising campaign was a hoax, because it is impossible to collect such an amount in 3 days, without an advertising campaign.

The process will take some time

Deputy Minister of National Defense Vilius Semeška on Tuesday leaves to Turkey to negotiate the purchase of Bayraktar. He is promised a gift to Ukraine, which is fighting for its future.

“I hope that by the end of the summer, this drone will be able to defend the land of Ukraine, the freedom of Ukraine,” the deputy minister told LRT on Monday.

According to V. Semara, not only a drone will be purchased, but also ammunition: “Good signals are coming from Turkey, they are ready to contribute to this unreal campaign.”

Minister of National Defense Arvydas Anušauskas also pointed out that Bayraktar will not be transferred immediately, but it is hoped that the transaction will be completed as soon as possible: “We will talk to the company’s representatives as soon as possible.”

Like on Sunday said the ministeran agreement has yet to be concluded with Laisvės TV on the use of money, and then even more paperwork will follow – a preliminary agreement will have to be signed, a technical specification will have to be defined, and so on.

It is planned that after the documents have been arranged, Bayraktar will initially be handed over to Lithuania, which will already hand it over to Ukraine.

5 million for an unmanned aircraft within one and a half days donated people. This campaign was initiated by Laisvės TV led by A. Tapinas.

A few days ago, a public figure on social media invited his followers to donate money in order to donate Ukraine the famous drone “Bayraktar”. This amount was managed in just over three days.

There were a lot of donations (A.Tapinas mentioned 200 thousand) – well-known people, companies and businesses of the country joined the campaign. There were heartbreaking stories. On the second day of the campaign, correspondence with babywhich donated € 500 to Bayraktar.

Eight-year-old Herkus created the page ukrainospalaikymas.ltwhich sold its own T – shirt and transferred all the proceeds – EUR 460 – to buy an unmanned aircraft.

Tapin called the drone a “Russian army killer.”

Ukrainian war Bayraktarai has already destroyed Russian command posts, tanks, missile launch systems. It is believed that Bayraktarai contributed to the death of the cruiser Moskva by directing the cruiser’s defense systems. In early May Bayraktarai attacked and destroyed two Russian Raptor-patrolled ships near Snake Island. “

Ukraine has been fighting Russian invading forces for more than three months, but is facing a shortage of weapons and urges Western countries to hand over as many of them as possible.

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