Strangely-Worded News Articles.

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Another example of of how the world we live in is managed by the media before we are given the information.

Financial Times.
"Russia claims it fired shots at British destroyer off Crimea"
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The BBC's version:

HMS Defender: Russian jets and ships target British warship

'More than 20 Russian aircraft and two coastguard ships have shadowed a British warship sailing near Crimea.
Moscow's defence ministry said a patrol ship fired warning shots and a jet dropped bombs in the path of HMS
Defender as it sailed some 12 miles (19km) off Crimea's coast.

The UK government rejected Russia's account of the incident and denied that any warning shots had been fired.
A BBC correspondent on the warship said it was harassed by Russia's military...'

In regards of this incident, it later emerged that some classified Ministry of Defence documents were found at bus stop
in Kent. These sensitive papers discussed possible Russian reaction to the HMS Defender's passage through Ukrainian
waters off the Crimea coast.
Coincidence?

Then the rain-soaked documents were given in to the BBC:
"...The documents, almost 50 pages in all, were found in a soggy heap behind a bus stop in Kent early on Tuesday morning
A member of the public, who wishes to remain anonymous, contacted the BBC when he realised the sensitive nature of the
contents...'
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Phew! A BBC Journalist aboard a ship that may-or-may-not have been fired upon and some papers about the same ship
the BBC Journalist was on, discovered at a bus stop and handed in to the BBC. All at the same time the Matt Hancock
scandal was appearing.

What are the odds?!