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‘Ghost of Kyiv’ killed in battle, identity revealed
The New York Post ^ | April 29, 2022 | Lee Brown

Posted on 04/29/2022 3:46:27 PM PDT by Trump20162020

The mysterious Ukrainian fighter pilot hailed as the “Ghost of Kyiv” after reportedly shooting down dozens of Russian aircraft has been killed in battle, an outlet said Friday.

The death of the much-celebrated enigmatic pilot was reported by The Times of London, which for the first time also publicly identified Major Stepan Tarabalka, a 29-year-old father of one, as the war hero.

Tarabalka was credited with taking out as many as 40 Russian aircraft until he was himself shot down March 13 while battling an “overwhelming” number of enemy forces, the UK paper said.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: corruption; fakenews; fakewarhero; fraud; ghostofkiev; mediabias; myth; neverexisted; propaganda; russia; scandal; shotdownmillions; ukraine; warhero
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1 posted on 04/29/2022 3:46:27 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

Unbelievable. The propaganda never ends.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 3:48:06 PM PDT by Interesting Times (This space for rent.)
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So they finally killed the fictional person who never existed in the first place?


3 posted on 04/29/2022 3:48:29 PM PDT by captain_jonas
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It's like the son from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Never existed, but has been killed off anyway.
4 posted on 04/29/2022 3:49:41 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020
YAWN

5 posted on 04/29/2022 3:51:06 PM PDT by AAABEST ( NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: captain_jonas
Stop with the misinformation. He was real:


6 posted on 04/29/2022 3:51:11 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Mr. Potato Head ... Mr. Potato Head! Back doors are not secrets.")
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To: Trump20162020

🤡😆


7 posted on 04/29/2022 3:52:16 PM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: captain_jonas

His great-uncle was Lieutenant Kije.


8 posted on 04/29/2022 3:53:37 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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How do you kill a ghost ? This seems like fake news


9 posted on 04/29/2022 3:56:49 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: captain_jonas

He is to be buried next to Carmen Sandiego…


10 posted on 04/29/2022 3:57:42 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: escapefromboston

Well, ask our Nazi Information Field Marshal Jancowitz…


11 posted on 04/29/2022 3:58:35 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Trump20162020

India Today, 2/25/22: “Fact Check: Heartbreaking photo of injured child from Syrian war shared as victim of Russia-Ukraine conflict”

India Today, 3/1/22: “2005 photo from West Bank shared as Russian soldier holding Ukrainian girls at gunpoint”

“Ghost of Kyiv” footage turned out to be footage from the 2013 PC game, Digital Combat Simulator: World.

Numerous pictures of Zelensky wearing military garb on 2/24/22 are from him inspecting the border on 4/9/21. Is he still in Kyiv as we’ve been told? Ukrainian lawmaker Ilya Kiva said he fled to Poland.

India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: Happy homecoming of US Marines shared as teary farewell of Ukrainian soldiers amidst the invasion”

India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: This lady soldier with a rifle is neither the Ukraine’s First Lady nor Vice President’s wife”

India Today, 2/27/22: “Fact Check: Old image circulated as Ukrainian children sending-off army for war with Russia”

The media has told us so many lies like the Snake Island soldiers didn’t surrender (the New York Post, Sydney Morning Herald, etc confirmed they’re alive) only to find out they did surrender.

The pic of an old woman with a bloody face and bandaged head? It’s from Magnitogorsk, 2018.

The viral clip of Ukrainian men saying goodbye...Real? No, its from “The War of Chimeras” (2017).

The pic of an old woman with a bloody face and bandaged head supposedlyfrom a recent blast? It’s from the city of Magnitogorsk, 2018.

Women articles with children, saying there’s attacks all around, the end of the world is near, yet somehow they know exactly how many tanks have been blown up.

The “tank” that ran over the old man’s car was Ukrainian.


12 posted on 04/29/2022 3:59:01 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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But the Polish/Ukrainian anti “disinformation” chief under Biden would no doubt say all of those things aren’t Ukrainian disinformation.


13 posted on 04/29/2022 4:02:16 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Interesting Times

Why is it unbelievable?

You don’t think the Ukranian government is going to put out stuff to encourage their people?

What is it with you guys? You don’t seem to understand how war works.

Think of it this way: You know how Putin blusters about setting off nukes to make himself (and you guys) hard...its the same thing.

If you are going to keep acting like this, you will have to sit at the children’s table for the Victory Day parade party.


14 posted on 04/29/2022 4:04:24 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Trump20162020

Casperov?


15 posted on 04/29/2022 4:06:05 PM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Trump20162020

The war effort for Ukraine must be going worse than they’re letting on if they’re ‘admitting’ that their fictional propaganda character was KIA.


16 posted on 04/29/2022 4:06:08 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Yeah, let’s believe CNN, MSNBC, Reuters, WaPo, AP, NYT, NY Post etc, becahse Ukraine needs it to help their people!!!


17 posted on 04/29/2022 4:06:20 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
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To: Interesting Times
He totally destroyed 12 Russian Navy carrier groups in the Black Sea, sinking a total of 60 ships.

With two missiles.

18 posted on 04/29/2022 4:07:31 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Vermont Lt
Victory Day parade party.

Whose though?

19 posted on 04/29/2022 4:08:35 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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Wow. 40 kills in a modern air environment. Amazing. No US pilot has done that. Was the ghost flying a P-38? He might have gotten 42 then.


20 posted on 04/29/2022 4:12:48 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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