Ukrainian parliament sacks official for spreading anti-Russia propaganda

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Ukrainian propaganda machine mainly run by neo-Nazis are behind feeding the western media with “blatant atrocities” of the Russian forces in Ukraine. As we say – truth prevails, Ukrainian parliament has sacked one of the many anti-Russia propagandists for spreading lies to the world. It said: “The latest story making the rounds is a completely unevidenced claim made by a Ukrainian government official that Russians are going around raping Ukrainian babies to death”. Although until now the western media outlets as well as major search engines are spreading nefarious propaganda against Russia, Russians and Vladimir Putin, the Newsweek in a tweet said: “A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine”. It may be mentioned here that, Newsweek too is amongst those biased western media that is running anti-Russia propaganda on a regular basis.

Meanwhile, in an article published by the Pressenza International Media, Caitlin Johnstone, a reader-supported independent journalist from Melbourne, Australia wrote:

A Ukrainian government official frequently cited as a source by western news media for her allegations of atrocities committed by Russian troops has been fired by the Ukrainian parliament, in part because of the unevidenced nature of those claims.

Newsweek reports:

A Ukrainian official has been relieved of her duties over her handling of reports detailing sexual assault allegations made against Russians in Ukraine.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, removed Lyudmila Denisova, the parliament’s commissioner for human rights, from her post, according to Ukrainska Pravda. No new appointment has been made to fill the role.

The move to dismiss Denisova came after outrage about the wording used in public reports about alleged sexual assaults committed by Russians, as well as the alleged dissemination in those reports of unverified information. Despite accusations from Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied that Russian soldiers have committed war crimes or sexual assaults during the invasion.

As it happens, Newsweek is one of the many western outlets who have uncritically cited Denisova’s unevidenced claims in their reporting of events in Ukraine. She was the “Ukraine official” in Newsweek’s incendiary April headline “Russians Raped 11-Year-Old Boy, Forced Mom to Watch: Ukraine Official,” an article whose entire first half featured unevidenced claims by Denisova.

Denisova’s name featured just the other day in my own critique of the western media’s blind-faith regurgitation of Ukrainian government assertions when multiple western media outlets parroted her unevidenced claims about two Russians raping a one year-old baby to death.

Business InsiderThe Daily BeastThe Daily MailThe SunMetroThe Daily Mirror and Yahoo News all published reports on the same story, and the one and only source for all of them was a post made by Denisova on a Ukrainian government website which contained no evidence and concluded with a call for more weapons and sanctions against Russia from the western world.

Moon of Alabama has compiled other western news media reports which have been uncritically regurgitating claims made by Denisova and disguising those claims as news stories, like Business Insider’s “Ukraine says it received more than 400 reports of sexual violence, including rape, by Russian soldiers within 2 weeks” and Time’s “Ukrainians Are Speaking Up About Rape as a War Crime to Ensure the World Holds Russia Accountable.”

This is not just brazen journalistic malpractice; this is actual atrocity propaganda. This latest development shows that even the Ukrainian government is more skeptical of Ukrainian government claims than the western mainstream press.

I do fully agree with Caitlin Johnstone. The ongoing western propaganda warfare against Russia, Russians and Vladimir Putin is a brazen journalistic malpractice. It is also media and cyber terror against Russia and its people. But the saddest part is – despite the fact of the case of Ukrainian official sacked by the parliament for running anti-Russia propaganda, very unfortunately Kremlin is miserably failing in countering such devastating lies and propaganda war, despite the fact, such propaganda and lies are definitely generating negative opinion in the minds of the people about Russia, Russians and Vladimir Putin. While it is proven fact, Russia is militarily winning the war in Ukraine, it is miserably failing in the soft war – in news and social media.

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