Why Are There Paintball Guns in This Photo?
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Yes, paintball guns. Also, notice that none of the "soldiers" are wearing helmets. They all have bare heads, but they have face and eye protection. Notice that at least 3 of them have large pressurized CO2 bottles.
Either Reuters is full of sh*t... or Ukraine is in worse trouble than we thought.
They give the reddit-tards that are volunteering paintball guns
41% of those redditors still managed to off themselves.
Haha, trannies.
Yep. However no hoppers for the paint ammo..so I think Airsoft BB's like Silo and Novritsch use on their YT channels.
They sting but they will not Keeel (Think Doug Marcaida)
Stock photo from the last European Airsoft gathering, perhaps?
Look at the second guy from the left and the guy behind him - he has a big hopper on the air rifle.
Zoomed to 400% now I see the hoppers...
I guess they are down to the teargas pepper markers...lol
I stand corrected :)
That's definitely not Airsoft, Thats paintball.
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Kek. Those are some large CO2 bottles, though. This is very serious paintball.
HPA, high pressure air. Those tanks are stupid expensive.
"...or Ukraine is in worse trouble than we thought."
Well, they are crouched down in an open field. Discussing strategy?
Either way, bad optics
JMHO:
The fact that a photo like this has been published even ONCE calls into question EVERYTHING - EVERYTHING - that the MSM has published about Ukraine.
EVERYTHING.
Not only that; this is certainly NOT the first time this has happened; haven't there been multiple examples of the media using clips from video games & otherwise posting literal fake news??
Just like the wooden AK-47 mock ups a couple months ago. LOL
That would be more believable, military and police both train with mock guns. Never heard of any one training with paintball, but it would be fun.
Good ole’ tippmann 98
Hey, maybe this is a better way of fighting wars. Let's just use large scale paintball matches to resolve national conflicts. Have some uninvolved neutral country referee the battles and point out the "casualties". They remove themselves from the battlefield. Wouldn't that be an ideal solution? Think of how much fun war would be, instead of the shitshow it is today and for the last few thousand years.
Wasn't there an old star trek episode where a warring civilization got tired of rebuilding infrastructure, so they set up a neutral computer to run battle simulations, then civilians had to report for euthanasia?
For sure! And for all you nerds, like me, you may remember that the lead character in that episode during their “virtual computer war” was named, get this, “Anon 7”! You can’t make this shit up!!
FYI, imho, someone in the Star Trek franchise figured out that wokeness was absolute bs and this year, 2022, they aired the season 2 of Star Trek Picard—a 10 episode story arc that included: references to Q, a scene where they humorously referenced Q type comms, cloning, leftist hive-minds (the Borg), totalitarianism in government, illegal biological experiments on humans, eugenics, crimes against humanity…all set in the Star Trek universe’s past, which just happens to be in the year 2024. 😜😜😜
Yep. That was one for sure. I don't remember the episode, but it was definitely one.
Source please, the URL in the photo doesn't work.
Edit: I found it. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-says-it-has-repelled-russian-incursion-sumy-region-2022-05-16/
2nd edit: The piece of shit "journalists" changed the photo in the link above, here's another link in wayback machine so that the photos can't get changed. https://web.archive.org/web/20220516191036/https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ukraine-says-it-has-repelled-russian-incursion-in-sumy-region/47597146
Nice. (I must ask, if the earth is flat why is their 24hr sunlight in Antarctica?)
Apparently the videos that show the 24 hour sun in Antarctica are fake. This is the only time lapse video I've seen of it which looks pretty fake (at least the sun flares are obviously fake, who knows what else is in the video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgZa9oZDN5g
This is a really good flat earth documentary that I highly recommend watching. https://odysee.com/@EricDubay:c/200ProofsEarthisNotaSpinningBall2019ExtraEdit:e
Gotta love the down voters, too scared to voice their opinions..
Wayback link is dead.
It's working for me now, maybe it was down at the time. Is it working for you now?
If it's still not working they haven't changed the swissinfo site yet. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ukraine-says-it-has-repelled-russian-incursion-in-sumy-region/47597146
I showed this to a coworker and he goes, "Well, that's clearly just a training picture!" "Yes, no shit, but they use it under a headline talking about current warfare as if this is a relevant picture."
He came to me about 15 minutes later, "if it makes you feel any better, the new York times used a picture with real guns." See this shit I have to deal with?
I saw these pics on telegram…… it’s training for the draftees who have no military experience….
Ukraine is running out of bodies to throw at the front lines….
They’ve even raised the maximum age to 70……! 😂😂
WWG1WGA
Well I guess it's better than the wooden guns and them running around yelling bang bang.
Tippmanns: The AK-47 of paintball guns 🤣
Good ol days of response trigger "loophole"
Vent off a portion of gas to a piston that resets the trigger. Braaaaaap!
The war is so bad, they can't show us the real pictures.
Because they think people are too stupid to know the difference.
Many are unfortunately
I thought this was a war? What in the world are they doing with paintball guns?
Exactly. There is no war here.
Green team pictured taking a peanut butter and jelly sandwich break.
Lulz because the whole Wag the Dog MSM lie that Ukraine is posing any kind of issue for Russia is invention. What is one more fake photo when it is all lies? You can see the big hoppers on the top of the air rifles for the paintballs. Lulz. We need to be able to sue in a class action for harm to the public from fake news.
Because the war is cosplay.
Bright green armbands, definitely a paintball side discussing strategy.
Dont you know? Russians hate getting paint on their face!
Because the war is fake, that's why.
No matches on TinEye, so I have to assume this is an original Reuters photo vs something from an entirely different event.
This is a game, maybe??
Cause in the movie Lord of War nick cage had sold off all the Ukrainian AK47 weapon stockpile years before kek
Lord Of War AK Clip
Has any REAL stuff come out of Ukraine?
Caption in the Reuters link says that this was a training exercise, but even they aren't interested in publishing pics from what we are to assume is a hellish warzone.
In all fairness guys, it does say the photo was from April 15'th when soldiers were training... In the web archive link:
"FILE PHOTO: Members of the territorial defence force attend training, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, outside an abandoned building in Sumy, Ukraine April 15, 2022. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra reuters_tickers"
Yes, I had a separate comment here acknowledging the pic caption, but the question remains: In an area that is oft-described as "war torn," why aren't they using actual combat photos?
One would think there are load of them. After all, we've been told several journalists have died covering this incursion.
Tonight on LARPWars...
Look like Tippman
Because neo-libs don't know a gun from their own asshole, and the media doesn't care about facts when Google searching images for their clickbait.
My guess is because the photo is of a paintball game not a war. And judging by the guy in front with his mask up and they are all grouped up, they arent even playing. Just some guys getting ready to play.
So why no photo from the big war?
Again just guessing the headline from Reuters saying 'Ukraine.. repelled Ruasian incursion' is propaganda and no such photos exist.
right, because the big war doesn’t exist like they’re pretending
I do believe this operation was run by retard joe himself.
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Just having a little fun for the day??!
Why are you guys freaking out about this? it's almost certainly footage of a training exercise, now what would be interesting is if you could prove this was external governments in Ukraine training soldiers.
No one is freaking out about it. We're showing the retarded nature of the MSM, who thought a training exercise pic would be a good image to broadcast when there's a "war" going on.
fair enough