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Nevilledog

(51,096 posts) Wed Mar 9, 2022, 01:59 PM Mar 2022

"I'm regularly asked what Russian media are reporting about Ukraine..."

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I'm regularly asked what Russian media are reporting about Ukraine, usually by people who don't speak Russian.
And I struggle to convey the **scale of lies and sheer depravity** of Russian state media content.
Words like "disinfo" aren't enough.
Here's a🧵trying to illustrate.

There is an article on the website of Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. It is one of Russia's top news websites. Hundreds of thousands of people have already read the article. It is titled "Kiev has experienced an exodus" (Киев пережил исход

. Here are some highlights.

It says: Ukrainian "patriotic bloggers and other so-called leaders of public opinion" "created moral hell" by their presence in Kyiv and now they will do the same in Moldova, Poland and Zakarpattia to which they have fled.

It says: Municipal authorities in Kyiv now "can't organize the most basic things" and the "main problem" is their "inability to organize normal provisions of medicines" even though "Kyiv isn't even blocked, roads to the south and south-west are open".

It says: "Most people still in the city are still rather optimistic about the military action thanks to a powerful flood of information", although they "don't believe in victory so hysterically any more".

It says ""It is completely obvious that the Ukrainian leadership is not particularly interested in saving civilian lives".

It says: "If the de-Nazification operation is not completed, the scale of human skulls in the Third Reich will look like nothing against what they will come up with in the New Ukraine", with risk of this spreading to Russia.

This is just one awful, awful article on one major Russian "news" website. But there are dozens and dozens of websites and TV channels saying the same thing. You see, it's not just "disinformation". It's not even just the Russian-language equivalent of RT or Sputnik.

It isn't even the absense of truth which is most nauseating (although that's nauseating enough). It's the total absense of humanity, the callousness towards people who are Russians' neigbours & relatives.

No hell can be hot enough for those who work now for Russia's state media.
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