Russian troops proceed to battle to make headway within the invasion into Ukraine, significantly in claiming its capital metropolis of Kyiv because the nation’s troops and residents alike have mounted a fierce protection of their homeland.
In the event you’re Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ya gonna name? Steven Seagal, clearly.
Properly, perhaps not.
On Monday, a picture of the 69-year-old Seventh-dan aikido black belt and actor preventing alongside Russian troops surfaced as a part of an alleged CNN tweet. The put up mentioned that Seagal is working with Russian particular forces on the outskirts of Gostomel Airfield.
Controversial podcast host Joe Rogan shared the picture to his Instagram with a caption that reads, “If I needed to guess the plot of this fucked up film we’re residing via I’d say we’re about 14 hours from the arrival of the aliens.”
Unsurprisingly, Rogan, who has since eliminated the put up, was duped by what appears to be a intelligent photoshop. The picture has since been confirmed pretend — making it the newest within the on-line propaganda warfare being fought along with the warfare itself.
Nonetheless, on behalf of film-lovers in all places, I feel I converse for everybody after I say {that a} film whereby Seagal and Oscar-winning actor and director Sean Penn, who’s in Ukraine filming a documentary, duke it out on the imply streets of Kyiv as bombs and molotov cocktails fly could be a cinematic masterpiece akin to ‘1917′ or ‘Saving Non-public Ryan.’
Some commenters on the put up recommended that Seagal resides in Moscow to evade taxes, in accordance with Newsweek.
Whereas the actor does have ties to Russia within the type of a private friendship with Putin and Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenka, who he loved a carrot and a watermelon with in a weird 2016 YouTube video about farming, the studies of his involvement in Ukraine invasion look like fabricated.
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Sarah Sicard is a Senior Editor with Army Occasions. She beforehand served because the Digital Editor of Army Occasions and the Army Occasions Editor. Different work will be discovered at Nationwide Protection Journal, Process & Objective, and Protection News.
