The person involved in the BBC pseudo-investigation about Libya intends to go to court
The editorial staff of the Federal News Agency has debunked a BBC film about Libya, which claims that the Wagner PMC participated in the fighting on the territory of the republic.
Journalists from a British media outlet claim to have obtained a tablet containing a list of call signs of suspected Wagner mercenaries and then, using the Ukrainian website "Peacemaker," identified them. According to the BBC, the man with the call sign "Metla" is 36-year-old Fyodor Metelkin, a native of the North Caucasus. "Selenga" is Andrey Vorontsov, born in 1993, who got his nickname from a river flowing through Buryatia.
All this is only at the level of guesswork. In a conversation with FAN, military observer Alexey Sukonkin said that knowing the call signs does not allow identifying the fighters.
“In the practice of intelligence services, there is a rule according to which an agent pseudonym assigned to an agent must not in any way be combined or be similar to the agent’s surname or external data, for example, “frost”, “snow” or “frost” cannot be given to a person with the surname , for example, Kholodov. And the pseudonym “eared” or “Van Gogh” cannot be given to a person who has any defects in the ears,” he emphasized.
A lot of questions are also raised by the fact that the “investigators” decided to turn to “Peacemaker,” a site that has been accused of slander more than once. Even the head of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, has repeatedly noted that the resource publishes fakes.
Finally, one of its defendants, the same Fyodor Metelkin, also declared the falsity of the pseudo-investigation. In a conversation with Russian journalists, he said that he intended to go to court.
“Now I’m sitting with a lawyer I know and I’m thinking that I’m going to file a lawsuit, because this accusation is just nonsense. I work quietly at a construction site. It turns out that on the other side of the world they found some kind of strategic tablet, and it was with me too. Simply fantastic. I never thought that this would happen in life,” he noted.
A person involved in a BBC fake investigation into Libya intends to take legal action.