Bulgarian investigative journalist Christo Grosev published a video clip of a Ukrainian citizen approaching the Russian soldiers and telling them to say the word (palyanitsa), the word for a type of bread known to Ukrainians.
“A Ukrainian approaches unidentified soldiers and shouts at them and says ‘Balanitsa’, after realizing they are Russians, he told them they couldn’t tell him not to videotape, as the Ukrainian constitution allows him to,” Grosev said.
A video of a Ukrainian citizen testing Russian soldiers
And the Ukrainian citizen says in the video: “I do not understand who he is.. Glory to Ukraine! He does not answer, say (Balanitsya),” and the Russian soldier replies to him, “Do not photograph.” The Ukrainian citizen gets angry: “Why can’t I film?” Who said I can’t photograph? The Ukrainian constitution allows me to photograph, I’m at home, so why can’t I photograph? Look, I want to photograph trees.”
Grosev posted another video of a Ukrainian soldier explaining to local citizens how to put Russian suspects to the test by uttering the word.
A video of the soldier explaining the Russians being put to the test
And “Balanitsa” is a bread that Ukrainians make to receive guests, and its pronunciation differs from the Russian pronunciation of it, and Russians can only pronounce it by mixing letters with each other, and changing some sounds.
Famous Russian broadcaster, Oleg Scapieva, a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, could not pronounce that word correctly, which was pronounced “Bualanitsa”, which in the Ukrainian language means “strawberry”.
The Russian presenter pronounced the word incorrectly
Meanwhile, Ukrainian citizens put a new test for suspected Russians from the Ukrainian slang by the word “Ukrzalennytsya”, which means “trifle, nonsense.”
And earlier, the Ukrainian army warned of a “stunt”, as he said that the Russian army has applied it in its continuous military operations on Ukrainian soil since Thursday.
“The Russian army is resorting to a ploy aimed at misleading the Ukrainian forces, which is to raise the Ukrainian flag on its military equipment,” the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zaluzhny, said in a Facebook post.
“Such cases were observed in many locations such as Nova Basan in Kyiv, on the Krasnostav Nizhin highway, and in the Chernihiv region,” he added.
And the Ukrainian military official continued: “There are cases in which the enemy raised a white flag on its vehicles under the pretext of surrender, and after approaching the Ukrainian military positions, it started shooting.”