The Durak Report July 16, Anno Domini 2026

Well, more of the same. EU censors.

Import the third world, become the third world.

Huh. I'll have to verify this. But it sounds like they didn't want to suspend attacks. See below:

This reminds me of when Iran executed Saleh Mohammad, an upcoming Iranian wrestler.

Woah, didn't see that coming. Getting serious now.

Not to make light of the situation, but that's a perfect title for an article.

That's just embarrassing. Way to look week Iran.

This is hard. Russia could be making this up, but also the west wouldn't want to report or confirm it. See below:

New York expanded what constitutes as rape. This makes plenty sense. Of course numbers go up.

Wait. Are they still arresting the victims? No. Kids are being very sexual assalty to each other and their parents? Crazy article. Ukrainian's Zelenskyy faces major backlash for ousting defense chief Mykhailo Fedorov amid progress vs. Russia "Hundreds of protesters" Is that enough to say it was a bad decision? Seems some Ukrainians blame Zelenskyy for failures, and that he took it out on Fedorov.

According to this CBS article, it seems that Ukrainian students saw Fedorov as an anti-corruption leader. Huh.

Well that's kinda telling. She said that. She also said married women are too dumb to prove they are citizens. Including herself.

Smart. Dumb, but smart.

I'm adding this guy to the list of things to check up on. Let's find out if he still lives in a year.

tl;dr Don't trust grok for this type of information. It's highly biased against Russia. Perplexity and Venice are much better about this. And if we can't trust Grok here, can we trust it anywhere?

This is more about LLMs for research than the article.

I ask Grok "Is it true that ukraine was refusing to take back their dead? Why did they refuse?"

Grok:

"No, it's not accurate to say Ukraine was broadly "refusing" to take back its dead soldiers. This claim largely stems from Russian accusations during a specific June 2025 incident tied to Istanbul peace talks, which Ukrainian officials and independent reporting described as logistical disagreements or Russian manipulation rather than outright refusal. Ukraine has participated in numerous body exchanges throughout the war, often repatriating hundreds or thousands of remains."

Okay, so obviously Grok is being stupid. Try again.

me: No, jackass, I'm not going on about 2025, I'm going on about 2026 early july.As I understand it, Russia asked to pause the fighting to return the dead.

Grok: No, Ukraine did not broadly refuse to take back its dead soldiers. This refers to a specific, localized Russian proposal around July 4–5, 2026, in the contested town of Kostiantynivka (Donetsk region), which was framed by Moscow as a humanitarian gesture but widely viewed as a propaganda move amid disputed battlefield claims.

Look. Bias. Assuming actions mean something. Bitches about framing. And strawmanning "Ukraine did not broadly…" I didn't ask about broadly…

Me:

which was framed by Moscow as a humanitarian gesture but widely viewed as a propaganda move amid disputed battlefield claims. Don't give me this biased bullshit. Don't give me "Well, I think they were AKTUALLY doing this bullshit instead of being nice."I don't give a shit about anything.Just tell me. Did Russia make the proposal? Did Ukraine Refuse? Why did Ukraine refuse.

Grok:

Yes. Russia proposed a 6-hour local ceasefire (12:00–18:00 Moscow time on July 6, 2026) in and around Kostiantynivka specifically to hand over the bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers.

Yes. Ukraine refused the proposal. Russia’s Defense Ministry stated that after consulting its security services, Ukraine rejected the ceasefire and continued shelling, so the handover did not occur.

Ohhh, so you lying to me, eh Grok?

I decided to ask perplexity.ai and venice.ai as well.

I'll be short with them though. Perplexity also opened with 2025 instead of 2026. I told it to talk about what happened this month. It then told the facts without bias.

Venice: Yes—there have been reports and accusations that Ukraine (at least at certain moments, and/or in specific proposed exchanges) did not accept the return of dead bodies. However, the “why” depends heavily on which incident you mean, because Russia and Ukraine described the situation very differently.

Oh, okay, this one did the best with the same prompt. I clarified that it was the incident this month. It went on to say which each side claimed and what may have happened.

So the point here is, don't trust your LLMs to be without bias. Especially Grok, which is highly anti Russian.

"Never believe anything coming out of a warzone," Scott Adams.

Look, this is what we know. Monaco was bombed. The alleged target was injured. Interpol suspects this spy of actually doing it. The spy was later found dead in Kyiv and two men were arrested for it.

What's unknown if the Russian leaks are true about Ukraine Intelligence services accepting what they do as terrorism.

It's all suspicious. Why was she killed? Ukraine says their own people killed her. Was she killed for failing to kill her target? Did she actually say things Ukraine didn't like? Was it somehow coincidental?

It sounds that Russia state media's claims are very likely to be accurate. However, we can't know that.

What everyone agrees on is that a Ukrainian Intelligence operative bombed multiple civilians where a suspected assassination target was located.

Russia's extra context of the spy admitting terrorism doesn't really matter. Terrorism occurred. The spy exposing that is a bit stronger bad PR for Ukraine.