We've also heard from the MH17 trial that Russian propaganda is very badly made and easily refuted by science. The only reason they've got this far in geopolitics is their ruthlessness in using deadly weapons.
At the same time as this tragedy that killed 298 civilians, Russian state TV was telling Russians that Ukraine had been overrun by fascists who were committing a genocide of Russian speakers. If you had watched Russian TV in 2014 you would have been staggered at how crude it was.
They falsely claimed that Ukrainians had crucified a young boy and that a far-right leader had left his business card at the scene of a shooting.
The MH17 trial has resumed this morning. A judge is saying that the Buk 9M38M1 that was used has a range of about 40 km.
Photos presented by Russia at a press conference were digitally analysed by Dutch experts and Bellingcat and found to have been manipulated using Photoshop. Areas including vehicles that had a different pixel compression from the rest of the picture lit up, and dates were changed
Far right British troublemaker Tommy Robinson is in St. Petersburg. Russian outlet that interviewed him said he "came to Russia to talk about censorship in the EU and the problems of migration from the Middle East." vm.ru/interview/7824…
Title of the article is "British politician Robinson: Let's break up the European Union together."
Asked which countries would be next to leave the EU, Robinson says The Netherlands and France. He hopes that Marine Le Pen will get enough support in France to take it out of the EU and mentions that the Gilets Jaunes have been protesting for a year.