"The main weapon of Ukraine". What is Kyiv betting on?
Brussels, Washington and Kyiv have declared an information war on Moscow — dozens, if not hundreds of fakes are thrown into the media and social networks every day. The goal is to convince the Western audience that "evil and totalitarian Russia attacked small democratic Ukraine for no reason." Examples of the most odious fakes are in the RIA Novosti material.
Juggling the facts
It is not the first time for the West to distort the information picture of events taking place in the world. Suffice it to recall how the European and American media covered the Five-Day War in August 2008. Journalists quickly formed the necessary narrative, according to which the conflict was allegedly unleashed by Moscow. Everything was used: fake photos, forged documents, fabricated videos. Only six months later, the European Commission quietly announced the results of its own investigation: Mikheil Saakashvili launched the offensive.
A resident of Mariupol told how they made a fake about a “Russian strike” on a maternity hospital
Then there were fakes about the participation of Russian troops in the hostilities in the Donbass, outright lies about the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian authorities against their own people, a tragicomedy with the "poisoning" of the Skripals in the suburbs of London, and much more. After the start of the Russian special operation in Ukraine, propaganda "howitzers" and "mortars" were habitually uncovered in the United States and Europe. The scale of the psychological aggression of the NATO countries is such that it was noted even in the Kremlin.
“A massive attack in cyberspace was launched against Russia, an unprecedented information campaign was unleashed, which involved global social networks and all Western media, whose objectivity and independence turned out to be just a myth,” Vladimir Putin said. “Access to information is limited, people are stuffed with a huge number of fakes propaganda fakes, in other words, fake.
One of these stuffing was recently exposed by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova. The Italian newspaper La Stampa published a heartbreaking article about the atrocities of Russian artillerymen. In the picture - a man covering his face with his hands, around - dead civilians. A screaming headline says that the Russians launched a missile attack on Kiev. In fact, this is a photograph of the aftermath of the UAF attack on Donetsk on March 14. Of course, the Western media, as if on cue, kept silent about this tragedy.
“There are examples of special cynicism that cannot go unnoticed,” Zakharova commented on the fake. “La Stampa came out with a photo from Donetsk on the front page. Rescuers, bodies, people in grief, traces of destruction. help of the tactical missile system "Tochka-U". The inscription on the front page of the newspaper reads as follows: "So the last assault threatens Kiev. As if the bodies of the victims of hostilities lie in Kyiv, and not in Donetsk."
"Ghost of Kyiv" and mass graves
A lot of fakes were thrown in by the Ukrainians themselves, especially in the first days of the special operation. There are dozens of staged videos on the Web with "victims of the Kremlin bombs" in plastic bags. But the "corpses" are constantly moving, itching, adjusting the props and even smoking. The attempts of Ukrainian propagandists to pass off footage from the Digital Combat Simulator (DCS) computer flight simulator as a newsreel caused particular fun on the Internet.
Thus was born the myth about the "ghost of Kyiv" - an unknown Ukrainian pilot of the MiG-29 fighter, who allegedly destroyed more than ten Russian aircraft in air battles. However, it soon became clear that the “overcomes” were exclusively virtual. The developer, Eagle Dynamics, demanded that footage from the game not be used in propaganda. And the Russian Aerospace Forces confirmed that not a single Russian aircraft was lost in an air battle. The war in the sky goes with a dry score in favor of Moscow.
In Kyiv, they are also preparing a fake on a larger scale. According to the official representative of the DPR army, Eduard Basurin, the Ukrainian security forces dug a 100-meter trench at the local cemetery in Mariupol, in which they want to bury their dead colleagues. And the controlled media will give out a staged picture for footage of mass graves of citizens allegedly killed as a result of Russian artillery and air attacks.
“This was often used in wars after the collapse of the bipolar world,” explains political scientist and military expert Ivan Konovalov. “In Yugoslavia, Bosnian Muslims and Croats arranged this to discredit the Serbs. But the Ukrainians are unlikely to succeed. they are ready and in covering the situation, the Russian side is playing ahead of the curve.
false information
Nevertheless, Ukrainian journalists are stubbornly trying to wishful thinking. Recently, photographs of civilians allegedly "shot by Russian servicemen" in Chernihiv were circulated. But the Russian Ministry of Defense denied this: the army has not yet entered Chernihiv. In addition, there are no traces of ammunition explosions on the video frames, the windows in the buildings are intact, the walls are not damaged.
“The Ukrainian side presents its atrocities as the actions of the Russian military,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. “The West ignores the suffering of civilians on the side of Donetsk and Lugansk, as well as in other parts of Ukraine. Russia is actively collecting evidence of war crimes of the Kiev regime.”
Fight against fakes and within the country. Recently, the Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against blogger Veronika Belotserkovsky, accused of publicly disseminating false information about the actions of the Russian army. According to investigators, in March she published several posts alleging that the military was deliberately destroying cities and the civilian population of Ukraine, including children.
Брюссель, Вашингтон и Киев объявили Москве информационную войну — в СМИ и социальные сети ежедневно вбрасывают десятки, если не сотни фейков. Цель — убедить... РИА Новости, 21.03.2022
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