Posted on 04/01/2022 8:23:16 AM PDT by Phoenix8
A Ukrainian website is reporting that multiple Russian soldiers were killed and even more left injured during a bee sting attack in Ukraine.
Kherson-News.net reported three Russian soldiers died and 25 others were hospitalized in the attack. The bees were reported to have left a hive near the village of Chelburda and flew into a nearby Russian camp, where they attacked the soldiers due to a lack of food.
The story was aggregated and cited by the Daily Star, however, has not been fully verified as of Friday (April 1).
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his country would conduct military operations in Eastern Ukraine during an NBC News translation of a speech addressing the Russian population in Moscow on February 24.
The announcement appeared to serve as the final action ahead of an attack by Putin and the Russian military, which the U.S. and European allies to the neighboring Ukraine have attempted to prevent from taking place through diplomatic discussions.
A Ukraine interior minister confirmed to NBC News via text message that "cruise and ballistic missile strikes" were already underway shortly after Putin's announcement.
NBC News correspondent Erin McLaughlin said explosions could be heard from her live shot in Kyiv, Ukraine's capital city, at 6:00 a.m. local time.
More than 1,000 protesters were reportedly arrested during anti-war protests throughout Russia amid President Putin's announcement to conduct military operations and ensuing attack on Ukraine, BNO News reported.
Editor's Note: This article is acknowledging the report's existence, but not citing or confirming it as a fact as it hasn't been fully verified.
That is the first thing I thought of this piece of BS.
The other is that if bees swarm, I dont know of any swarms that will attack.
If someone had dumped the hive over and they come out to defend the hive, then that might be considered a swarm to some.
The report is pure BS.
It's not the first sting that'll kill you, but the hundred that follow.
Has to be a joke. Bees don't go swarming around when temperatures are in the 40's. And why would they attack soldiers for a lack of food? Did the soldiers carry honey?
Most hives have at least 75 pounds of honey in reserve for bees during the winter, at least in my neck of the woods (nj) I suspect April fools joke but you never know.
the gullibility runs strong in this report.
Check the date of the report.
They’re buzzin off!
Will the BS reporting never end?
Define honey.
Ground bees produce a honey which feeds the larvae. Ground bees also sting, leaves a pheromone for a hundred follow up attacks, and people do die as a result.
Reminds me of similar stories during one of the Israeli wars.
Actually, they have an earlier spring than we do.
I knew a Ukrainian immigrant family and they, not knowing any better, put their vegetable garden in in April, in Central NY.
A freeze got it very quickly, unfortunately, but they were surprised by that.
So I can believe that bees would be active there already.
“I don’t think that there are that many people who would go into shock from a honeybee sting”
Seriously?
How about 25 to 50 bees. You say honey as if there is only 1 type of honey. Ground bees produce a honey to feed the larvae, and they are ferocious defenders of the hive. African bees are honey producers also.
Fire ants can kill
Spiders can kill
The body produces histamine to counteract allergic reactions.
Which means that people have more allergic reactions to more things than you can imagine but your histamine production allows you to live a semblance of a normal life amongst all the toxins out there.
However, your body can produce an overabundance of histamines which is not healthy either. And people can and do die as a result of that.
It’s like shellfish... everybody is allergic to shellfish and it’s really just a matter of when your body can no longer tolerate iodine that you become allergic to shellfish, which have naturally high iodine percentages.
Histamine intolerance is not a sensitivity to histamine, but an indication that you’ve developed too much of it.
My older brother was allergic to the stings, but still had honeybee hives for a couple of years, and sold the honey, until his death from suffocation in a grain bin (5 days short of his 16th birthday).
Good heavens, the news gets more idiotic by the day.
Honey laundering.
That didn’t take long.
You were late to the party so somebody had to step up...
” I’m fairly sure most of the Ukraine is still chilly….and bees are cold blooded.”
High in Northern Ukraine is 53 deg F. Plenty warm forvRussian bees.
Sometimes work does get in the way.
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