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On the 25th, a video of a suspected foreign woman running and waving was widely circulated on major social media in China. Relevant media and bloggers interpreted it with subtitles when reposting it, saying, “On February 24th, In Odessa, Ukraine, a man took a train from Ukraine to return home due to the outbreak of war, and his girlfriend ran all the way to say goodbye.”
It has been verified that the content of this series originated from an article entitled “Odessa, Ukraine has been invaded by the Russian army. On the eve of leaving Odessa by train, my girlfriend has been chasing the train for fear of never again.” Can’t see me” online video, published at 23:47 pm on the 24th.
How does the client respond?
In the middle of the night on the 25th, the blogger who previously posted this original video posted a video in response.
In the video, the blogger explains that he is currently fleeing in the Ukrainian countryside (and has not returned), and that the video of “chasing the train” took place before the outbreak of the war, when he was preparing for Work has to leave, and he later posted this video with the original intention of expressing how much he misses his girlfriend.
The blogger also said that after the video was widely reposted, it was “all kinds of addicting” by the media.
Has Odessa ever been captured by the Russians?
It is worth noting that in the original video released by the blogger on the 24th, he mentioned that “Odessa, Ukraine has been invaded by the Russian army”, then Odessa is currently What is the situation?
On the 24th day when the blogger posted the video of “chasing the train”, there were indeed reports that “the Russian army has landed in Odessa”, but the Ukrainian military subsequently denied this news .
A Chinese in Odessa, Ukraine, said in an interview with a Global Times reporter, “The news of the landing is only heard and rumored, and we don’t care about it. All we know is that everything is fine in Odessa at the moment.”
In the interview, the Chinese also said that at four or five o’clock in the morning on the 24th, he heard two sounds of artillery in the distance, and it was estimated that military facilities were hit. Other than that, there are no more exceptions, the city continues to operate, and the residents live as usual.
After the 24th, the battle around Odessa is still ongoing. According to a report by the Ukrainian media quoted by the World Wide Web on the 26th, an adviser to the Ukrainian President’s Office said that the Ukrainian army and the Russian army Heavy fighting continued in Odessa, Kherson, Nikolayev and Mariupol, and the situation remained under Ukrainian control.
At the same time, in a live interview released by CCTV4’s official Weibo on the 26th, local Chinese in Odessa said that the Russian army has not yet launched a large-scale military operation in Odessa.
In other words, there is currently no solid evidence that Odessa has been captured/occupied by Russian forces.