Re: What?
Ukraine is in the middle of a bloody war - of course they're controlling the message. There has never, ever been a country in the history of warfare that didn't recognise the importance of this - you mention Vietnam, but I would suggest this is the exception rather than the rule.
As for your man who was fired for unauthorised messaging, after Ukraine Air Defence said they didn't have the technical capability to shoot down ballistic missiles (the X-22 does Mach 4) he quit "blaming tiredness and stating that it was “one theory” put forward by a friend who happened to be near the scene". Which is not quite the same narrative. I hadn't heard of this guy before but the article implies he was a bit of a self publicist and an irritant.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
