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Yesterday I spent some time checking French, Belgian, mainstream media TV "treatment" of the 🇷🇺War against Ukraine 🇺🇦
My starting point is obviously my own experience and few years of mapping Telegram ecosystems and 5 months of War tracking, archival & amplifyukraine
My starting point is obviously my own experience and few years of mapping Telegram ecosystems and 5 months of War tracking, archival & amplifyukraine
French TV is really nuts, they spend most of the air time relaying extract you can get from @JuliaDavisNews but with the French commentary, often superficial, sensational and I must say : biased, my impression was that French TV's are mostly relaying Russian Propaganda in the
Name of "commenting it", why? Because they don't bring any other perspective, certainly not from a Ukrainian perspective, they keep coming back to Russian propaganda and Russian threats against Europe, UK or anyone else without clearly, bluntly countering the propaganda.
#war #Kyiv #Ukraine #Russia Collecting all reports thread; Ukraine's operational command says "cruise and ballistic missile strikes are underway at the control centres in Kyiv" from @lukeharding1968 Friends report explosions in #Kyiv, #Odessa #Kharkiv #Mykolaev thread, add info
Targets include airfields and military headquarters, operational command says
"Distant crumps - soft explosions - reported from west Kyiv, towards the airport. Not Cruise missiles, i think, but sounds like an attack on the airport." @JohnSweeney
“The atmosphere in Kiev is surreal”. This is the phrase I’m hearing often from international reporters, who have flocked in droves to the Ukrainian capital. It’s something I was thinking about too".
My latest - please, @EveningStandard, it's #KyivNotKiev
standard.co.uk/insider/ukrain…
My latest - please, @EveningStandard, it's #KyivNotKiev
standard.co.uk/insider/ukrain…
The atmosphere is surreal because everything looks surprisingly normal in Kiev — as if there were not 140,000 Russian troops stationed at Ukraine’s borders. People go to work, send their children to school and proceed with their daily routine.
In fact, I don’t know any Ukrainians who have fled Kiev so far because of the worrying news — mostly spread by the Western media — that Russia might attack Ukraine ‘any time now’. I know that some Americans, after receiving alerts from the US embassy in Ukraine, left the country
There's so much wrong with this, a thread is needed to unpack it.
First, there is an answer to this question. It lies in the proper implentation of the #Minskk deal that #Russia agreed to but has consistently ignored.
Point one: ceasefire. Russia has never done this.
Cont...
First, there is an answer to this question. It lies in the proper implentation of the #Minskk deal that #Russia agreed to but has consistently ignored.
Point one: ceasefire. Russia has never done this.
Cont...
Minsk requires that Russia ceases fire. Then (Point two) retires heavy equipment (their tools of war) to a safe distance and that (Point three) the OSCE SMM be allowed to verify this.
Instead, Russian occupation forces constantly harass OSCE monitors, & shoot down their drones.
Instead, Russian occupation forces constantly harass OSCE monitors, & shoot down their drones.
Planning for elections in the areas under temporary Russian occupation (Point four) follows Points one, two & three. Russia has not complied, to this day, with those three points.
Elections can & will only happen after hostilities cease. Not under Russia's occupation or terms.
Elections can & will only happen after hostilities cease. Not under Russia's occupation or terms.
