Thread by @DMokryk

1/5 After the 🇷🇺Russian missile strike on 🇺🇦Kyiv this morning (a civilian building has been hit, injuring a little girl and killing her father), I have already seen three different Russian propaganda messages.

They may serve as a reminder of how the Russian propaganda works. ⬇️

2/5 The messages are:

1. The building was empty, there was no one inside.
2. The 🇺🇦Ukrainian air defence is to blame for shooting down a missile near the building.
3. It's all "fake", just like the "White helmets" stuff in 🇸🇾Syria was fake.

There probably are (or will be) more.

3/5 The 🇷🇺Russian propaganda machine doesn't care if those messages are mutually exclusive, easily disprovable or downright absurd.

The point is to flood you with multiple "alternate" versions of events. The more the better. They want to make you doubt: "It's not so clear".

4/5 That's exactly what 🇷🇺Russians are doing every single time they commit war crimes. After the downing of #MH17 in 2014 Russian officials and state media kept producing more and more versions of the event. It was the same with 🇸🇾Syria. It was the same after #BuchaMassacre.

5/5 They know some versions won't stick at all. They know they'll contradict themselves. They know they'll be caught lying.

But if they manage to make enough people think "Well, who knows what really happened and who's to blame" - they'll succeed. That's their goal.