Let's check in on what Wendy Bell (and by extension her sponsors) are selling:
Free from the censorship of @newsmax, Comrade Wendy continues to spread Russian disinformation. First up, the #BuchaMassacre 1/2 pic.twitter.com/2j6aEFQXbX
— WENDY BELL WATCH (@JonInPGH) April 5, 2022
Here's What Moscow Wendy said:
Russia comes out - now they could be lying too.
Their defense minister says, hmm, they denied Ukraine's allegations, quote All the photographs and video material published by the Kyiv regime, allegedly showing some kinds of crimes by Russian military personnel in the town of Bucha, Kyiv region, are yet another provocation," The Ministry said April 3rd.
It's particularly concerning that all of the bodies of the people whose images were published by the Kyiv regime after at least four days have not stiffened, do not have characteristic spots on the cadavers and have fresh blood in their wounds, it added.
The Ministry said that the incident apparently involved bodies with staged by the Kyiv Regime for western media as is the fake news from the Mariupol maternity clinic.
We're being played, ladies and gentlemen. Somebody is playing us.
Why is the focus on the United States? Why is it that you are the one who has to pay the money to fund this?
Should you not be asking these questions: Why does Zelenskyy appear at the Grammys, asking for you to keep the story alive on your social media account?
Why?
We had social media during Afghanistan. This was never a thing then.
Are you not curious?
Are you not suspicious? Should you not be?
While Wendy hides behind her first statement:
Russia comes out - now they could be lying too.
Too?
But she then proceeds to cowardly spread the misinformation anyway.
The statement was published on Russia's "War on Fakes" Telegram channel.
Insider describes "War on Fakes" thusly:
A Russian Telegram channel with over 700,000 followers is spreading disinformation about Russia's invasion of Ukraine under the guise of providing "objective information" and fact-checking fake news. Its influence extends beyond the platform, with major Russian publications, government officials, and journalists citing the page's posts.
The account, "War on Fakes," was created on February 24, the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation" and troops began invading Ukraine. The page is rife with disinformation, according to The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which studies digital extremism and published a report examining the channel.
The channel appears to be part of the broader information war that has developed following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin has paid Russian TikTok influencers to push propaganda, according to a Vice News investigation, while ProPublica found that fake Russian fact check videos had been viewed over a million times on Telegram.
This is where Wendy Bell is getting her news about Ukraine, these days - from a Russian propaganda channel on Telegram.
Way to go, Wendy.
Turns out that what The Angel of Death spread from the Russian misinformation is easily debunked.
Let's join the BBC, debunking already in progress:
Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs tweeted: "It is of particular worry that all the bodies of the people whose images have been published by the Kiev regime are not stiffened after at least four days."
According to the Ukrainian military, the Russians left in the early hours of 31 March. The Russians say they left on 30 March.
In the hours after death, bodies go through a process called rigor mortis where muscles contract and stiffen.
We asked a forensic pathologist for their opinion on whether a body would be expected to be "stiffened" after four days. One who has worked in places including Kosovo and Rwanda on war crimes investigations, who did not want to be named, told the BBC that by four days rigor mortis has "usually subsided".
And as far as the massacre is staged by the Ukrainians, the Beeb is on that too:
Satellite images of Bucha appear to show bodies lying in the street nearly two weeks before the Russians left the town.
An image from 19 March, first reported by the New York Times and confirmed by the BBC, directly contradicts Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's claim that the footage of bodies that has emerged in recent days was "staged" after the Russians withdrew.
The image shows objects that appear to be bodies in the exact locations where they were subsequently found by Ukrainian forces when they regained control of the town north of Kyiv.[Bolding in original]
So who's got the better chance of getting the story right?
On the one hand there's The BBC News, a hundred years old and reportedly the largest news division on the planet, with access to all sorts of experts and then on the other the noxious Wendy Bell, fired for a racist FB post and then fired again later for a fascist radio rant, pushing Russian misinformation onto her many many adorings.
Oh and did you see how Wendy so blithly spread the Russian misinformation about the Mariupol maternity hospital?
That's been debunked, too:
On March 9, Ukrainian officials said a Russian airstrike destroyed Mariupol Hospital No. 3. The attack was verified by the World Health Organization’s Surveillance System for Attacks on Health Care and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared footage of the damage to Telegram. The Mariupol City Council also shared footage on the messaging app, saying Russian forces dropped "several bombs on a children’s hospital,” according to a Google translation.
Journalists with the Associated Press documented the aftermath and witnessed the damage firsthand, capturing footage of pregnant women fleeing, children crying and medics shouting. Maxar Technologies published before-and-after satellite images of the hospital showing extensive damage.
Wendy, I'm sorry (not sorry) that my posting of these fact checks so trigger you and your lil' buddy Brock but facts are facts. Facts don't care about your feelings, Wendy (and Brock).
These are the facts and you are siding with genocide.
Way to go.
