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There don't seem to be other serious sources confirming the Belarusian low-ranked soldiers' refusal to fight, and there is a social media source suggesting that a faked document supposedly by "the head of the General Staff of the Defence Ministry, Gulievich", tendering his resignation, is a hoax. The same Telegram source says that instead, there is "confirmed evidence" that several senior Belarusian armed forces officers left Belarus last week. However, Telegram is not a WP:RS. Feel free to update the paragraph (or remove it) after seeing if there are any more Wikipedia acceptable WP:RSes to improve/fix the paragraph. (But please don't remove archiving information. Reliable sources can have volatile web pages, which disappear after some time; and some sources have pages that are paywalled to some readers, but readable to most readers through archives.) Boud (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The chief editor of Charter 97, Natalya Radina, has now repeated two of the three claims in her own name. These are not the same statement as the apparently faked Gulievich resignation letter. I don't think the 'dubious' tag is still justified. We have attribution of the info to Radina + Charter 97, and Radina is a Wikipedia notable person. While she clearly is biased against Lukaszenko, all of our WP:RS have known biases such as measured statistically in the propaganda model; reliability is a different issue. And we know that at least some government statistics under Lukaszenko are quite dubious.

I removed the 'dubious' tag and also the statement which was not repeated by Radina. Boud (talk) 21:17, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]