{"id":1307994,"date":"2022-02-17T19:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307994"},"modified":"2022-02-17T19:39:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T00:39:16","slug":"russia-mocks-western-press-after-day-of-no-invasion-passes-without-predicted-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-mocks-western-press-after-day-of-no-invasion-passes-without-predicted-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Mocks Western Press After &#039;Day of No Invasion&#039; Passes Without Predicted Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-mocks-western-press-after-day-of-no-invasion-passes-without-predicted-attack%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1307994&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-146753037-1-e1645116603871-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Western media handed Russia a minor PR victory by publishing reports which cited \u201cU.S. intelligence sources\u201d as saying Ukraine would be invaded on February 16th, only for the day to pass without incident.<\/p>\n<p>State-owned Russian News Agency TASS <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/world\/1404247\">reports<\/a> Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman&nbsp;Maria Zakharova as sarcastically requesting that \u201cBloomberg, <em>The New York Times<\/em> and<em> The Sun<\/em> media outlets\u2026 publish the schedule for our upcoming invasions for the year\u201d to help her \u201cplan my vacation\u201d on Telegram, in response to multiple media reports suggesting that Ukraine was to be invaded on February 16th<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Previously, Zakharova had issued a less playful statement declaring that&nbsp;\u201c[this] will go down in history as the day of the failure of Western war propaganda. Humiliated and destroyed without firing a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British news outlets came under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/russia-ukraine-invasion-western-media-b2017099.html\">particular criticism<\/a> on a Russian version of <em>60 Minutes<\/em>, with hostess Olga Skabeeva mocking the \u201cday of no invasion of Ukraine\u201d and showing decidedly uneventful footage from a livestream which had been set up by Reuters in the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Sun<\/em>, in particular, had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.the-sun.com\/news\/4689995\/russia-set-invade-ukraine\/\">quoted sources<\/a> as saying Ukraine would be hit by a \u201cmassive missile blitz\u201d and invaded by some 200,000 troops, sharing the claim <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSun\/status\/1493648804200861698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1493648804200861698%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost-new.php\">on social media<\/a> alongside dramatic footage of Russian tanks, artillery, and warships on manoeuvres \u2014 but no such invasion materialised.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">US intelligence claims Russia set to invade Ukraine at 1AM tomorrow with massive missile blitz and 200,000 troops <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WKwvLPuFTt\">pic.twitter.com\/WKwvLPuFTt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Sun (@TheSun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSun\/status\/1493648804200861698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky did at one point appear to confirm that \u201c[w]e are told that February 16 will be the day of the attack\u201d in a statement seized upon by several Western media outlets, but a spokesman for the former comedian later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/02\/15\/volodymyr-zelensky-joker-ironically-told-everyone-russia-invading\/\">clarified<\/a> that he was simply making an \u201cironic\u201d reference to the \u201cdate that was spread by the media\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>President Zelensky has previously urged American and British officials to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/28\/europe\/ukraine-russia-zelensky-biden-intl\/index.html\">tone down their rhetoric<\/a> concerning a supposedly imminent Russian invasion, noting that, in his view, Ukraine has already been invaded with the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2014\/03\/18\/putin-recognizes-crimea-independence-claims-peninsula-as-russia-territory\/\">annexation of Crimea<\/a> following the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/02\/26\/he-killed-for-the-maidan\/\">Euromaidan coup<\/a> of 2014, and warning that baseless talk of escalation will only create \u201cpanic\u201d and damage the Ukrainian economy.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the United Kingdom,&nbsp;Vadym Prystaiko, echoed Zelensky\u2019s sentiments after British defence secretary Ben Wallace suggested that efforts to solve the Ukrainian crisis through diplomatic means had \u201cthe whiff of Munich\u201d about them.<\/p>\n<p>Such comparisons to pre-war efforts to appease National Socialist Germany, the ambassador <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2022\/02\/13\/whiff-munich-air-comment-shows-britain-risks-offending-nato\/\">said<\/a>, would needlessly \u201coffend our partners in the world\u201d and added that there was \u201cpanic everywhere not just in people\u2019s minds but in financial markets\u2026 hurting the Ukrainian economy on sort of the same level as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/01\/24\/biden-undermines-zelensky-ukraine-with-partial-embassy-pullout\/\">people leaving the embassy<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udcac <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Zakharova?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Zakharova<\/a>: Today we mark another day of the \u201cstart of war with Ukraine,\u201d which did not happen again, to the Western media outlets\u2019 regret, no matter how hard they whip up the hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>\u2757\ufe0f See for yourselves what the collective Western media and officials\u2019 words are worth. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m6IUaPnUsp\">pic.twitter.com\/m6IUaPnUsp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MFA Russia \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfa (@mfa_russia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mfa_russia\/status\/1493960598123687942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>@JackBM<\/span><\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackBMontgomery\"><span>ontgomery<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western media handed Russia a minor PR victory by publishing reports which cited \u201cU.S. intelligence sources\u201d as saying Ukraine would be invaded on February 16th, only for the day to 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