Russia Attacks Ukraine - 23 Feb 2022 **Media Thread** NO DISCUSSION #2

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War also rages online: two examples of misinformation by Ukraine

The war in Ukraine is not only a battle with bombs, but also an information war via social media. The warring parties bombard each other, their own population and their allies with propaganda and disinformation.

NOS this week, when verifying war footage, found two examples of misinformation being spread by, in this case, the Ukrainian government. Whether this was intentional cannot be determined with certainty. In one case the information is still online, in the other case the photo has been removed, but by then that photo had already been shared a lot.

A bakery
One of the examples can be found in a Twitter message from Emine Dzhaparova, the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister. On Monday she wrote about a Russian bombing of a bakery near Kiev. Thirteen people were killed. Her tweet was accompanied by the photo below.


Emine Dzheppar @EmineDzheppar

Russian occupants shelled the State Enterprise "Makariv Bakery" in the Kyiv region. It is known that 13 people killed. There were more people on the ground. There is no limit to the immorality of the Russian occupants. #StopRussianAgression #StandWithUkraine

2 days ago
The photo is of a bombing, but not of the incident she is writing about. If you look up the image via 'reversed image search' (a technique where you search for the origin of a photo), it turns out that the photo was taken during an air raid on a Syrian village near Aleppo on October 17, 2016. The maker is a photojournalist for Reuters news agency.

It is unknown whether the deputy minister deliberately placed a wrong photo. She was previously Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Information. That ministry was set up in 2014 to combat Russian disinformation. In any case, Emine Dzhaparova has not yet corrected the photo accompanying her tweet. She later posted the same message in Turkish , Arabic and Chinese , including the wrong photo.

a drone
Another example of misinformation by Ukrainian authorities is a photo of a drone that was widely shared in Telegram groups and on Twitter earlier this week. It was reported that a Russian drone was shot down in Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine. The photo comes from Viacheslav Chaus, governor of the region.


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Ніжинському районі збили російського безпілотника. олова ернігівської В'ячеслав Чаус

 

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Russian attacks hits Ukraine maternity hospital, officials say

Володимир Зеленський on Twitter - Video
Mariupol. Direct strike of Russian troops at the maternity hospital. People, children are under the wreckage. Atrocity! How much longer will the world be an accomplice ignoring terror? Close the sky right now! Stop the killings! You have power but you seem to be losing humanity.

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Mariupol officials, faced with a rising death toll, have dug a trench over 82 feet wide in a cemetery, burying at least 70 bodies at the site as of Wednesday, according to the Associated Press.

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Kissinger penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on March 5, 2014 headlined, "To settle the Ukraine crisis, start at the end," which detailed much of what has unfolded as Russia’s attack continues.

"Public discussion on Ukraine is all about confrontation. But do we know where we are going? In my life, I have seen four wars begun with great enthusiasm and public support, all of which we did not know how to end and from three of which we withdrew unilaterally. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins," Kissinger wrote.

"Far too often the Ukrainian issue is posed as a showdown: whether Ukraine joins the East or the West. But if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other — it should function as a bridge between them," he continued. "Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States."

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Weakness of Russian army increases the chance of nuclear battle'

" The chance that Poland will lend fighter planes to Ukraine seems to have decreased. According to Defense reporter Olof van Joolen, the delivery of planes could be seen as an act of aggression towards Russia, which could further escalate the conflict. In this new episode of the Ukraine Update, Van Joolen also discusses what the current state of the Russian army means for the battle in Ukraine."

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"The Kremlin knows it can try to extract concessions, whether from Ukraine or the West, by saber-rattling its last remaining card in the deck: nuclear weapons," Andrei Kozyrev wrote. "The ultimate conclusion here is that the West should not agree to any unilateral concessions or limit its support of Ukraine too much for fear of nuclear war."

Kozyrev, who served as Russia’s foreign minister between 1991 and 1996, claimed that Putin was still a "rational actor" in a series of thoughts posted on Twitter Sunday.

Putin, he argued, instead has possibly "started to believe his own propagandists," such as a "Nazi-Bandera junta" running the country.

Former Russian minister says Putin is 'rational,' West shouldn't 'limit Ukraine support over nuclear fear'

 

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Sean Penn
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I JUST got off a call with President Zelensky’s Chief of staff, Andriy Yermak. Somewhere in the bureaucratic chain between our White House & the Polish Gov., the desperately NEEDED jets are not yet delivered to Ukraine. Public outcry may find the bottleneck.
https://twitter.com/SeanPenn/status/1501603494725259264

 

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Ukraine war: Lavrov lands in Turkey for talks tomorrow

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WARNING VERY DISTRESSING

War in Ukraine: Massive airstrike hits maternity hospital in Mariupol

 

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Russia increases censorship with new law: 15 years in jail for calling Ukraine invasion a 'war'

“War” and “invasion” are two words that can land someone in prison for up to 15 years under a new Russian law.

Those words are “fake news" in the eyes of Russian lawmakers and President Vladimir Putin, who last week passed a law criminalizing the intentional spread of information that goes against the government’s narrative about what the country prefers to call a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Newsrooms, both Russian and foreign, scrambled to protect their reporters: CNN stopped live broadcasting in Russia, while the BBC suspended its journalists’ work there. But the law doesn’t stop with news outlets: TikTok suspended livestreaming and new content from Russia, saying the new law left the social media giant “no choice.”

 

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Russian-Israeli oligarch Leonid Nevzlin (left), Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Ukraine war: Moscow says it has found biological weapons in Ukraine - but US dismisses claims as 'absurd propaganda'

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Kremlin spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters: "We can conclude that in Ukrainian laboratories close to our borders, components of biological weapons were being developed.

"The urgent destruction of these materials was ordered in order not to disclose the materials and the programmes that were being made there."

It involved deadly pathogens including plague and anthrax, she said.

Moscow called on Washington to explain "Ukrainian biological weapons labs".

Igor Konashenkov, chief spokesman of the Russian Defence Ministry, said: "It is obvious that in the wake of the special military operation, the Pentagon started having serious concerns about secret biological experiments uncovered on the Ukrainian territory.

 

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Russia-Ukraine war military dispatch: March 9, 2022
''Russian forces are moving, albeit slowly, towards Izyum, southeast of Kharkiv, while also trying to lock Chernihiv, north of the capital, Kyiv, from all sides. At the same time, they are advancing north of Mykolaiv after failed attempts against the southern city and are trying to cut west of Kyiv in order to encircle it.

Meanwhile, Belarusians living in Ukraine’s capital have reportedly created a separate battalion named after 19th-century revolutionary Kastus Kalinouski to defend Kyiv.''

 

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Russia bombs maternity and children’s hospital in Ukraine: LIVE UPDATES

Pentagon opposes transfer of MiG 29 planes from Poland to Ukraine, calls move ‘high-risk’
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Polish counterpart, Mariusz Blaszczak, and informed him that the United States will not support Poland’s proposal to deliver MiG-29s to the Ukrainian military.

“The secretary also had a chance to discuss with Minister Blaszczak the proposal to send MiG-29 fighter aircraft to Ukraine and, specifically, the notion of doing so by a way of transfer to U.S. custody,” Kirby said. “Secretary Austin thanked the minister for Poland’s willingness to continue to look for ways to assist Ukraine, but he stressed that we do not support the transfer of additional fighter aircraft to the Ukrainian air force at this time and therefore have no desire to see them in our custody either.”

"We believe the provision of additional fighter aircraft provides little increased capabilities at high risk," Kirby continued.

“We assess that adding aircraft to the Ukrainian inventory is not likely to significantly change the effectiveness of Ukrainian Air Force relative to Russian capabilities,” Kirby said. “Therefore, we believe that the gain from transferring those MIG 29s is low.”

Kirby also said during the briefing that America must “be careful about every decision we make” to ensure “that we aren’t making the potential for escalation worse.”

 

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Thursday 3 March 2022, 12:42 PM

China is also suffering from the war in Ukraine. The New Silk Road, President Xi Jinping's prestige project, runs partly through Ukraine, which means that China can no longer transport freight. And that can cost the Chinese a lot of money.

'In any case, we know that the border crossings between Russia and Ukraine have been completely destroyed,' says Onno de Jong, transport consultant at research agency Ecorys. 'That line can no longer be used. In the big picture that is one of the less used lines. Most of the transport goes via Belarus, but we know for sure that nothing will be transported via Ukraine in the near future.'

GT from source:
Chinese handel lijdt zwaar onder de oorlog in Oekraïne