Russia’s state TV channel accuses Britain of falsely attributing Vladimir Putin’s army to war crimes. Russia’s Channel One first appeared on British viewers’ radar when the channel’s current employee, Marina Ovsianikova, went live and waved a banner shouting, “Stop the war. Stop the war. No to war.”
Ovsyannikova has since been fined 5215. The channel continues to claim that Russia is conducting a “special military operation” rather than the all-out war that has occurred in recent weeks.
However, on Channel One, Russia took another step forward in its pro-Putin narrative. Now he accuses Britain of falsely accusing Putin’s army of war crimes.
The accusation was made on Sunday evening on Russian Channel One, where the topic of discussion was the Ukrainian city of Bucha. According to Express, Russian Channel One presenter Vladimir Solovyov, citing BBC’s Francis Scarr, said: “The war against Russia has entered a new stage today.
We will soon be charged with genocide. It seems that all this provocation was planned by the British.”
Soloviev showed a tweet from the British ambassador to Ukraine, Melinda Simmons. Amid reports of sexual violence by Russian forces in Ukraine, Ms Simmons wrote: “Rape is a weapon of war.
“While we do not yet know the full extent of its use in Ukraine, it is already clear that it was part of the Russian arsenal. Women were raped in front of their children, and girls in front of their families as a deliberate act of submission. “Rape is a war crime.”
In the Channel One story, Russian viewers suggested that the West was lying about its approach to the Russo-Ukrainian war and that nothing would stop the Putin regime.
The controversy continued on Monday, with Channel 2 again reporting on Scar, distorting what Prime Minister Boris Johnson had said. In what Mr Skar called “millions of viewers”, Olga Scapeva said Johnson had promised to “starve Russia to death”.
“This is a direct quote,” he added. However, this is a wrong quote. Instead, the prime minister promised to “starve Putin’s war machine”. “We are increasing sanctions and military support, as well as strengthening the humanitarian assistance package to help those in need on the ground,” he said in a tweet on Twitter.
Johnson added in as direct a response as possible to Channel One’s coverage: “No denial or disinformation by the Kremlin can hide what we all know to be true: Putin is desperate, his invasion failed, and Ukraine’s decision is not.”
Another Russian state news agency, RIA Novosti, today published an article by scientist Timofey Sergeevich calling not only for the “denationalization” of Ukraine, but also the “de-Ukrainization” of Ukraine, according to Skar. This included, according to Sergetsev, “the artificial inflation of a large-scale denial of the ethnic component of the self-definition of the population of the regions. [of areas, including Ukraine] It was started by the Soviet government.”
Source: Belfastlive
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