Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
It was hardly fake news in the now sadly conventional sense. Perpetrators of fake news don’t come out the next day and say “tada- only kidding” - that really defeats the point. It was a sting to catch a would-be assassin and as such seems to have worked. Whether it was Russia-backed or not doesn’t alter the fact that Putin leads a vicious murderous regime
Do we have evidence of this sting yet, or is it a claim from the Ukrainian government? And why, if they know who this middleman is, would they need to stage this stunt to arrest him?

14 journalists were actually murdered in Ukraine in 2016. I didn't notice those getting such attention over here.