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British media glosses over Ukrainian soldiers’ use of anti-gay slur | British media glosses over Ukrainian soldiers’ use of anti-gay slur |
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The Telegraph appeared to disguise homophobic language by Kiev’s troops | The Telegraph appeared to disguise homophobic language by Kiev’s troops |
British newspaper The Telegraph appears to have covered up the repeated use of an anti-gay slur by Ukrainian fighters in a combat video. The clip was published by the outlet on its YouTube channel two months ago, although questions over the translation were widely picked up online only this week. | British newspaper The Telegraph appears to have covered up the repeated use of an anti-gay slur by Ukrainian fighters in a combat video. The clip was published by the outlet on its YouTube channel two months ago, although questions over the translation were widely picked up online only this week. |
The bodycam footage appeared to show Russian-speaking Ukrainian troops repelling an attack on their positions outside the Donbass city of Artyomovsk (known in Ukraine as Bakhmut). | |
Seemingly shot in early spring, the video offers little commentary on the fighting, and instead provides viewers with captions on the commutation between the Ukrainian fighters. | Seemingly shot in early spring, the video offers little commentary on the fighting, and instead provides viewers with captions on the commutation between the Ukrainian fighters. |
“Russian soldiers are referred to as ‘orcs’ by the Ukrainian fighters,” a caption by The Telegraph claims early on in the clip. | “Russian soldiers are referred to as ‘orcs’ by the Ukrainian fighters,” a caption by The Telegraph claims early on in the clip. |
In reality, however, the Ukrainian troops refer to the attacking Russian soldiers using a term which translates as “f****ts.” The Ukrainian fighters use the slur multiple times during the close-quarters trench gunfight, with all instances of it captioned as “orcs.” | In reality, however, the Ukrainian troops refer to the attacking Russian soldiers using a term which translates as “f****ts.” The Ukrainian fighters use the slur multiple times during the close-quarters trench gunfight, with all instances of it captioned as “orcs.” |
Judging by the watermarks on the video, it was shot by fighters with the so-called DaVinci Wolves unit, a self-styled elite mechanized infantry battalion of the Ukrainian military. The leader of the unit, notorious neo-Nazi Dmitry ‘DaVinci’ Kotsyubailo, was killed on the front lines in early March, and was granted a state-level funeral with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in attendance. | Judging by the watermarks on the video, it was shot by fighters with the so-called DaVinci Wolves unit, a self-styled elite mechanized infantry battalion of the Ukrainian military. The leader of the unit, notorious neo-Nazi Dmitry ‘DaVinci’ Kotsyubailo, was killed on the front lines in early March, and was granted a state-level funeral with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in attendance. |