On February 24, 2022, the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian naval vessel Vasily Bykov ordered the 13 Ukrainian border guards on Snake Island in the Black Sea to surrender. The border guards replied, “Russian warship, go f*** yourself“. The warship shelled the island in response and the soldiers were reported to have been killed. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced he would “posthumously” award the soldiers on Snake Island with the highest Ukrainian honor, the Hero of Ukraine.
Then on March 7, 2022, Ukrainian sources claimed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had attacked Vasily Bykov using a shore-based multiple rocket launcher system off the coast of Odessa, stating that the ship had been heavily damaged or even sunk.
Call it the fog of war. While both accounts had a basis in fact, neither the deaths of the Ukrainian border guards nor the sinking of the Vasily Bykov turned out to be true.
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When Janet MacPherson started surfing around 1955, she was a rarity in a sport dominated by men. In those days, male surfers would sometimes throw rocks at her because they didn’t want a woman on their waves. She overcame the initial resistance to become a surfing icon, known worldwide and revered in her native Malibu in Southern California. Remarkably, she continued surfing for more than 60 years, riding the waves through her 70s and into her 80s. She died on March 5th, at age 84, of cancer in her home on Carbon Beach in Malibu. 
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