“It was in the midst of fakes (in the Ukrainian media. -

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) about a drone shot down by a can of cucumbers, gypsies who stole a tank, geese who shot down a plane, and so on,” the man told RT.

- It was the geese for me that became the last straw.

Plus, the unbridled joy from fakes around Chernobaevka.

I have relatives there, and they suffered from the senseless shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.”

The young man, according to him, decided to check how the Ukrainians would react to a completely invented and ridiculous fake, and in ten minutes he composed “news” about a bee attack on the Russian military, as a result of which three people allegedly died and 25 were hospitalized.

A resident of Kherson anonymously posted the text in OSBB chat, which is popular in Ukraine in instant messengers.

As a result, the invented story began to acquire additional details, and a number of publications - KP in Ukraine, RBC-Ukraine, Censor.NET, Pryamiy and Channel 24 TV channels, and other leading media - reprinted this fake.

“I didn’t expect such a resonance, although I expected it,” says the interlocutor of RT.

The formula is very simple: an epic story, preferably with a fantastic element, plus localization.

It’s scary to imagine if this is done purposefully, for money and with a large team.”

As RT reported earlier, Roskomnadzor has identified and removed more than 117 thousand fakes about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine since the end of February.