FAKE NEWS DAILY REPORT
21st May 2023 Edition
MARIUPOL RESIDENTS ERECT PUTIN THE BENEVOLENT SHRINE IN HONOR OF PUTIN FOR REBUILDING A CITY REDUCED TO RUBBLE IN THE WAR
Mariupol, Sunday:- Residents of Mariupol have erected a shrine in honor of Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for rebuilding their city, much of which was reduced to rubble in the war with Ukraine which it was annexed from, a twenty-foot-tall white marble shrine christened Putin The Benevolent and sculptured in the image of the Russian president.
"We are so grateful to him, even if the modern metropolis Mariupol used to be is beginning to look like a city in the Soviet era with gigantic Soviet-era housing blocks and outdated communal amenities," said a resident who wished not to be identified.
"At least we have running water, even if it runs only twice a day, once in the morning and once more in the evening, and at least we have lights and heat, even if we have to resort to back-up generators most of the time, but life is definitely better, a thousand times better, than having to sleep in crumbling basements in freezing conditions and stand in line for rations handed out by aid agencies allowed into the city," she continued, "and it's all thanks to the Russian president, bless his benevolent soul, who even came by to inspect the progress being made in the re-building of this once glorious and proud Ukrainian city which Ukraine herself has relinquished to Russia without a fight," she went on, "a city that is in the process of re-inventing itself as Russian with a hint of Stalinistic-era architecture, " she concluded, pleased with her attempt at journalistic reporting.