Pyrpolizer wrote: The article is from a News Letter service written by someone called Sullivan, expressing her own personal views, in the usual Western misinformation manner. Btw there is not much in the article about "rusted pipes/corruption".
Here are some examples:
I wrote an almost identical reply earlier, even down to the 'examples', and was about to paste it when I read yours!
If you look at just the bare facts the article is more or less accurate, but then the facts are embellished by the author who is obviously pro-Ukraine and the Western version of these events. Then she adds a few misconceptions .... as you have pointed out. It is then no different from any other pro-Western MSM view.
But like all these articles they can be defined not by what they say but what the author choses to leave out. They do it every time!
I don't see where 'rusty pipes' come into this as an event that started this war? I recall the Ukrainians didn't pay the bill and owed Russia millios ...... so they cut them off. So the Ukrainians then stole the gas they wanted from the gas lines to Europe. That was when the trouble started I think? But it was resolved and Ukraine still got a good deal on the price.