The Russian Embassy in South Africa has shared a map online that shows illegally annexed Crimea as part of Ukraine.

A post on the embassy’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, attempted to raise the profile of the BRICS grouping of world economies but appeared instead to endorse Crimea as being part of Ukraine.

The X post showed a world map with Ukraine’s borders containing not only eastern parts of its territory that Russia claims to have annexed but also Crimea—which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014—in addition to BRICS members.

  • Call Me M.
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    1641 year ago

    ya think someone’s gonna lose their job life about this?

    • Zerlyna
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      441 year ago

      Don’t stand near an open window…

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      Lose their life? Comrade, of course not. You have been listening to too much Ukrainian propaganda. Now please come sit with me and enjoy a drink. This new stuff is to die for.

    • @NarsilNZ
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      31 year ago

      When one door closes another window opens 🤣

  • Jay
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    1001 year ago

    That’s what you get for copying someone else’s homework without looking at it first.

    • Echo Dot
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      251 year ago

      You see what happened here is they are assumed that everybody else agrees with their interpretation of reality (that Crimea belongs to Russia). Obviously that’s insane, considering they’re the ones with the dictatorship, but you know logic isn’t really their strong point.

      So no one actually bothered to look at the image, which was literally the bare minimum amount of work they could have done.

  • @foof
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    1 year ago

    For completeness’ sake, it also shows the recently annexed oblasts (Kherson, Zaporozhija, Donetsk, Luhansk) as Ukrainian.

        • Echo Dot
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          231 year ago

          Borders don’t change just because you draw them in differently. You’re thinking about hurricanes.

    • @Red_October
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      311 year ago

      It’s gonna be so weird how many of them manage to fall out of windows, or die in freak plane crashes. Gonna be like some final destination shit.

    • FuglyDuck
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      241 year ago

      In these moments it’s windows that suffer the most. Think of their panes.

    • Bilb!
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      11 year ago

      That song is like, a guilty pleasure of mine

  • @[email protected]
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    401 year ago

    This is a fuck-up, not a statement. Though we can laugh of them, it doesn’t really do anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Well that settles it, Russia. The rules say you have to go home and start a new invasion. Be sure to pick up any mines you may have left.

  • @Hazdaz
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    161 year ago

    Happy little accidents like this usually don’t just happen.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    121 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Russian Embassy in South Africa has shared a map online that shows illegally annexed Crimea as part of Ukraine.

    A post on the embassy’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter, attempted to raise the profile of the BRICS grouping of world economies but appeared instead to endorse Crimea as being part of Ukraine.

    While BRICS refers specifically to the economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, the map posted on the embassy’s account also included Ethiopia, Argentina, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Iran shaded in green, along with the five BRICS members.

    Since being published early on Monday, August 28, the post has attracted more than 292,000 views as well as a number mocking comments.

    Mira of Kyiv, who shared a photo of Crimea being part of Ukraine, posted: “So you agree.”

    The regions of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhizhia were annexed into the Russian Federation last year following referendums that were condemned by the United Nations, and have only been recognized by North Korea.


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