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→Russia-Ukraine war
==Russia-Ukraine war==
==Russia-Ukraine war==
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}
{{See also|Russia-Ukraine war}}
In their drive to stoke hostilities between [[the West]] and Russia, corporate media ignored the fact that the U.S. and NATO forces have been supporting openly Neo-Nazi paramilitaries in Ukraine for many years. A MintPress study of the op-ed pages of ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'' and ''The Wall Street Journal'' found that only one of 91 articles published in January 2022 mentioned this connection at all, with far more asserting that Vladimir Putin himself is Hitler incarnate. Around 90% of opinion columns pushed a “get tough on Russia” message, with anti-war voices few and far between.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/279612-2/279612/</ref> “People who take at face value the Western media coverage would have a very distorted perception of the Ukraine conflict and its origin,” Ivan Katchanovski, Professor of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa, told MintPress, adding:
[[File:Wolfsangel.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Ukrainian flag with Nazi SS Wolfsangel insignia. Ukranian Nazis served in the Nazi SS Galacia Division to fight against Russia in [[World War II]] and are known for horrific atrocities against Russian, [[Polish]], and [[Jewish]] civilians.<ref>https://spzh.news/en/zashhita-very/68324-ss-galichina-uniaty-kholokost-i-zhizny-v-sostojanii-lzhi</ref>]]
{{quotebox-float|"They omit or deny that there is a civil war in Donbas even though the majority of scholars who [have] published or presented concerning this conflict in Western academic venues classify it as a civil war with Russian military intervention. The Western media also omitted that recent ‘unity marches’ in Kharkiv and Kyiv and a staged training of civilians, including a grandmother, were organized and led by the far right, in particular, the [[Azov Battalion|Neo-Nazi Azov [Battalion].]]”<ref>https://twitter.com/I_Katchanovski/status/1490034084600594436</ref>}}
Conducting a civilian training operation in the middle of the Donbas city of Mariupol while a crowd of Western journalists looked on, Azov units showed locals how to use rifles. The image of a silver-haired, 79-year-old “babushka” staring down the sights of an [[AK-47]] went viral around the world, allowing the media to construct an “everyone in brave Ukraine is doing their part to oppose an imminent Russian invasion” narrative. The story was covered by a host of outlets, including [[ABC News]], [[MSNBC]], [[Newsweek]], the [[BBC]], ''[[The Guardian]]'' and The Financial Times, as well as by media in [[Ireland]], [[Australia]], [[Israel]], [[Denmark]], [[Thailand]] and [[Indonesia]]. Images from the training day featured on the front cover of six national British newspapers on February 14, 2022.
This was all despite the fact that the Wolfsangel insignia of the many Azov soldiers instructing the grandmother is clearly visible in a number of the images. The Wolfsangel was the crest of the infamous [[SS]] brigades, [[Hitler]]’s elite paramilitary units that carried out the extermination of millions of people (including countless Ukrainians) in Nazi death camps across Europe. The image is widely used by Neo-Nazi groups in the U.S. and is considered a hate symbol by the [[Anti-Defamation League]]. Azov’s original commander, politician Andriy Biletsky, has stated that he sees Ukraine’s mission as to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade against [[Semite]]-led subhumans.” None of the outlets above mentioned the fact that they were profiling Neo-Nazis.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/documents-reveal-us-ned-spent-22m-promoting-anti-russia-narrative-ukraine/279734/</ref>
The [[liberal media]] reported that Russia -- which [[Leftists]] despise because it opposes the [[homosexual agenda]] and is [[pro-life]], and [[neoconservatives]] despise because it opposes their pet projects in the [[Middle East]] and [[Central Asia]] -- would attack Ukraine on February 16, 2022, which did not happen.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/a/on-day-russia-was-meant-to-invade-ukrainians-go-about-their-affairs/6443905.html</ref>
Virtually all the [[fake news]] stories came from the mouth of Volodomyr Zelensky.
On March 10, 2022 [[Facebook]] and [[Instagram]] reversed longstanding policies and approved open support for [[Nazism]] on their platforms and modified [[violent]] [[hate speech]] restrictions to allow advocating death to Russians.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/10/facebook-and-instagram-say-it-is-okay-to-support-nazism-in-ukraine-and-they-modify-terms-allowing-advocacy-for-death-to-russians/</ref>
===''The Kyiv Independent''===
[[File:Kinzinger fake news.PNG|right|300px|thumb|U.S. Congressman [[Adam Kinzinger]] of the [[J6 witchhunt]] fell for the lie posting a fake image showing a pilot with American comedian Sam Hyde’s face.]]
The Kyiv “Independent” was slapped together in November 2021 with what the Committee to Protect Journalists called “an emergency grant from the European Endowment for Democracy.” The European Endowment for Democracy is a spinoff of the U.S. government-funded “[[NGO]]” National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which according to its own co-founder was set up to do overtly what the [[CIA]] used to do covertly, namely orchestrate [[coup]]s and manage narratives to advance U.S. interests. A page on an NED website says that “All EU member states are members of EED’s Board of Governors, together with members of the [[European Parliament]] and civil society experts."<ref>https://www.cima.ned.org/donor-profiles/european-endowment-democracy/</ref> This makes ''The Kyiv Independent'' a media outlet funded by a government-run “NGO” being forcefully pushed in front of millions of western eyeballs on [[Twitter]], a major [[Silicon Valley]] corporation that people have come to rely on for getting information about the world. In the same way Silicon Valley facilitates government [[censorship]] by proxy, it also facilitates government [[propaganda]] by proxy.<ref>https://humanevents.com/2022/03/15/the-fog-of-information-war-in-ukraine/</ref>
===Ghost of Kyiv===
A video of a Ukrainian fighter pilot dubbed the “Ghost of Kiev/Kyiv” showed a jet supposedly shooting down multiple Russian fighter jets, causing several casualties. Social media users were quick to champion the pilot as a “hero” despite the video actually tracing its origins to a video game. The video was created with the 2008 game “Digital Combat Simulator” and was first shared via YouTube, where the original poster acknowledged the footage was from a simulator.<ref>https://gamerant.com/ghost-of-kyiv-ukraine-video-fake-digital-combat-simulator/</ref> ''The New York Times'' tweeted: "Viral stories like the Ghost of Kyiv — a Ukrainian pilot who supposedly single-handedly shot down several Russian fighter jets — are of questionable veracity. But they're a key part of Ukraine's war plan, experts say, as it tries to keep morale high."<ref>https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1499516258781437953</ref>
=== Snake Island Martyrs===
Thirteen Ukrainian border guards stationed on the country’s Snake Island, located in the [[Black Sea]], were quickly alleged to have been killed by Russian forces, at the onset of Russia’s invasion. Audio recordings of what was allegedly their final moment went viral on [[social media]], with a Russian warship demanding: “I ask you to lay down your arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed and unnecessary deaths. Otherwise, you will be bombed.”
“Russian warship,” came the reply, “go f**k yourself.”
The 13 Ukrainians, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky said, died “heroically.” He later promised to recognize each solder with the title of Hero of Ukraine. Days later, however, the Ukraine Navy revealed that the guards had actually been “taken captive by Russian occupiers” and were all still alive. After running the story as fact, even [[CNN]] was forced to add the following update: “The Ukrainian soldiers on Snake Island were all feared to have been killed in the Russian attack on February 24. On February 28, however, the Ukrainian Navy released a statement saying the troops were ‘alive and well,’ but were forced to surrender ‘due to the lack of ammunition.’” Evidence of their survival had emerged before February 28. Footage appeared to show Snake Island soldiers receiving water and rations from their captors.<ref>https://twitter.com/RWApodcast/status/1497467132950548486</ref>
===Bombing Babi Yar===
On March 1, 2022 Zelensky claimed that Russians had bombed Babi Yar, a ravine in Kyiv that was also the site of massacres committed by Nazi forces and Ukrainian collaborators during [[World War II]].<ref>https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1498697538085568514</ref> Some 33,771 [[Jewish]] civilians were murdered by the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators from Kyiv there. Zelensky’s chief of staff reportedly confirmed that the Russians bombed the site.<ref>https://twitter.com/LahavHarkov/status/1498686224462188549</ref> Zelensky's tweet has more than 300,000 likes and over 75,000 retweets.
On March 2, Israeli journalist Ron Ben Yisha reported after touring the site that the memorial had not been destroyed or damaged, as Zelensky and his officials claimed. Translated from the Israeli news website ynet:
{{quotebox-float|"The memorial site in Babi Yar was neither destroyed nor damaged. After touring all over the large site I can report with certainty that no monument was damaged and no bomb, missile or shell hit the grounds. The closest impact to Babi Yar was in the Kiev media and television tower complex, about 300 meters from the new monument, and about a kilometer from the old monument </ref>to the victims of the WWII massacre."<ref>https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/sky0frhg5</ref>}}
Zelensky and his officials lied to the world. Worse, their lie suggested that all those who chose inaction were essentially collaborators in the next [[holocaust]].
===Nuclear power plant attacked===
[[File:Ukrainian artillery next to a baby hospital.PNG|right|350px|thumb|Ukrainian artillery in Mariupol next to a baby hospital.<ref>https://youtu.be/TYgm5k1GjwQ</ref> Ukrainian forces have used civilians as human sheilds, not allowing them to escape urban centers through humanitarian corridors set up by Russian forces.]]
On March 4, 2022 Zelensky and his officials claimed that Russian tanks were shooting at nuclear units in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Zelensky branded it “nuclear terrorism."<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10575179/Russian-troops-fire-Ukrainian-civilians-protecting-Europes-largest-nuclear-plant.html</ref> He had previously claimed Russian capture of Chernobyl posed an imminent threat to “the whole of Europe.”<ref>[https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ec679e8-79b3-42dd-a1c3-a31f4c177e97_720x560.jpeg Zelensky: “Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Our defenders are sacrificing their lives so that the tragedy of 1986 will not be repeated. This is a declaration of war against the whole of Europe.]</ref> But that was untrue as well.<ref>https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1496895177499156509</ref>
Zaporizhzhia was different, though. Here was the largest nuclear power plant in Europe. “Russian tanks are shooting at the nuclear blocks. These are tanks equipped with thermal imagers, so they know what they are aiming at,” Zelensky said. “Only immediate action by Europe can stop Russian troops. Do not allow the death of Europe from the catastrophe at the nuclear power plant.” Korrespondent, one of Ukraine’s biggest newspapers, reported that, according to Zelensky, he had discussed the situation with Joe Biden, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the head of the European Council, Charles Michel. Ukrainian prime minister Denys Shmyhal also called on NATO to create a no-fly zone and “close the skies” over the facility. “It is a question of security of the whole world.” An unidentified Ukrainian official said radiation levels had risen in the area.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220304025346/https://korrespondent.net/ukraine/4453959-obstrel-zaes-zelenskyi-pryzval-evropu-prosnutsia</ref>
According to the ''Associated Press''<ref>https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-a3092d8e476949ed7c55607a645a9154</ref> and ''Reuters'',<ref>https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-nuclear-reactors-being-safely-shut-down-us-energy-official-2022-03-04/</ref><ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/ukraine-crisis-nuclear-plant-radiation/radiation-level-unchanged-at-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-ria-idINL2N2V704S</ref> they lied.
Mark Nelson, managing director at Radiant Energy Fund, noted that Zelensky’s claims were deliberately misleading.<ref>https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1499573995657646106</ref> Canadian nuclear arms expert Claire Wählen said the same.<ref>https://twitter.com/Claire_Wahlen/status/1499552935470149652</ref> So dangerous was this lie that the U.S. State Department sent out an urgent message to all American embassies in Europe, instructing them to not share a tweet by the U.S. Embassy in Kiev claiming that Russia was trying to blow up the nuclear power plant.<ref>https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F515d16ed-dadb-41ec-a376-2d4c25969552_720x1006.jpeg</ref>
===Tank runs over car===
On Twitter, videos from February 25, 2022 showing a military tank running over a car in Kyiv garnered over ten million views. Contrary to allegations, it was not a Russian tank deliberately running over a civilian. The incident actually involved a Ukrainian tank. The armoured vehicle is a Strela-10, a model of anti-aircraft missile launcher used by the Ukrainian army.<ref>https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20220301-video-debunked-russian-tank-crush-civilian-car-kyiv</ref>
===Miss Ukraine joins militia===
[[ABC News]] reported that Miss Ukraine beauty contest winner took up arms to defend her country against Russia. In fact, the photo from an old photo shoot depicted her with a toy gun.<ref>https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-miss-ukraine-poses-with-rifle-i-had-a-normal-life-just-on-wednesday</ref>
===Video game footage===
NEXTA, a Twitter account with nearly a million followers that claims to be the “largest Eastern European media,” posted a video that appeared to show a Ukrainian pilot shooting down Russian attack aircraft. It was video game footage from Arma 3. The clip had more than a million views.<ref>https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1497717073983770634</ref>
===PBS blurs image of Hitler accomplice behind Ukrainian mayor===
[[File:PBS Bandera.PNG|right|300px|thumb|[[PBS]] blurred the image of Ukrainian nazi collaborator and hero Stepan Bandera in a broadcast interview with a Ukrainian mayor.]]
U.S. state media [[Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS) published and promoted an interview with a renowed Neo-Nazi Ukrainian mayor, without disclosing the politician’s allegiances to World War II German leader Adolf Hitler and Ukraine’s own Nazi sympathizer Stepan Bandera. The interview comes just days after PBS published an article downplaying the links between Neo-Nazi politicians and Ukraine’s current political situation. PBS hosted Mayor Artem Semenikhin of Konotop, ''The National Pulse'' reported.<ref>https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/03/04/pbs-hosts-neo-nazi-ukraine-mayor-blurs-image-of-hitler-accomplice-behind-him/</ref> In 2015 the ''Jerusalem Post'' reported: "Two months after local elections were held across Ukraine, residents of the small northern city of Konotop are expressing shock and dismay over the behavior of newly chosen Mayor Artem Semenikhin of the neo-Nazi [[Svoboda]] party. According to reports, Semenikhin drives around in a car bearing the number 14/88, a numerological reference to the phrases “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children” and “Heil Hitler”; replaced the picture of President Petro Poroshenko in his office with a portrait of Ukrainian national leader and Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera; and refused to fly the city’s official flag at the opening meeting of the city council because he objected to the [[star of David]] emblazoned on it. The flag also features a [[Muslim]] crescent and a cross."<ref>https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/ukrainian-jews-shocked-after-city-elects-neo-nazi-mayor-437975</ref>
===Shelling civilians===
Maria Avdeeva, a misinformation specialist and director at the European Expert Association, shared a tweet that appeared to show Russians indiscriminately shelling residential areas.<ref> https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1498544825062375434</ref> However, the building targeted in the video is a known base for the Ukrainian Azov Battalion. Hromadske, a digital broadcasting station in Ukraine, reported that the group, which began as Sect 82, "occupied the building of the regional administration and acted as a local 'Self-Defense.' Soon, on the basis of the 'Sect,' a 'Schidna Corps' was formed—a volunteer formation that soon entered the structure of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and was supposed to protect Kharkiv in the event of a war on its territory. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov called the corps 'his black hundred in Kharkiv.'"<ref>https://hromadske.ua/posts/my-namahaiemosia-pryity-do-vlady-cherez-vybory-khocha-maiemo-vsiaki-mozhlyvosti-iak-azov-staie-partiieiu</ref>
Azov had reportedly been using the administrative building at the time of the strike, which meant that it was a military target.<ref>https://twitter.com/emeriticus/status/1498700380649238537</ref>
===Shooting civilians===
[[File:Zelensky fake news.jpeg|right|350px|thumb|Ukrainian defense plans called for the heavy use of [[fake news]] to win the hearts and minds of Western audiences.]]
Ukrainian journalist Anastasiia Lapatina shared a video that she claimed showed Russians shooting at civilians.<ref>https://twitter.com/lapatina_/status/1500118411912916996</ref> But that didn't happen in the video, which Lapatina later admitted. Lapatina also writes for ''The New York Times''.<ref>https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1500305602928525313</ref>
===Images from other conflicts===
EMPR.media, the self-described best source of “independent citizen media about Ukraine,” attempted to pass off several images from other conflicts as reporting from Ukraine, including pictures of wounded children from [[Syria]] in which their skin and hair appear to have been lightened.<ref>https://twitter.com/NeoPagliacci/status/1500556099744894976</ref>
===Zelensky in combat===
While Volodymyr Zelensky was reportedly still in Ukraine, the viral pictures of him in combat fatigues supposedly commanding troops on the front line were all old photographs of border inspections more than a year old.
===Facebook allows hate speech===
On March 10, 2022 [[Facebook]] approved support for [[Nazism]] on their platform.<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/03/10/facebook-and-instagram-say-it-is-okay-to-support-nazism-in-ukraine-and-they-modify-terms-allowing-advocacy-for-death-to-russians/</ref> Facebook allows praise for the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Previously the group was labeled as a "Dangerous Individuals and Organizations," which the platform previously moderated strictly in discussions forums.<ref>https://theintercept.com/2022/02/24/ukraine-facebook-azov-battalion-russia/</ref> Facebook also allows for [[violence]] against Russians and the calls for the death of Vladimir Putin or Belarusian President [[Alexander Lukashenko]] will be allowed to stay up on the platform.<ref>https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-facebook-instagram-temporarily-allow-calls-for-violence-against-russians</ref> Andy Stoner, who made the decision to suppress the ''[[New York Post]]'' reporting on the [[Hunter Biden]] laptop<ref>[[Biden_family_corruption_timeline#October_2020]]</ref> two weeks before the disputed [[2020 presidential election|2020 US presidential election]], made the announcement for Facebook.<ref>https://www.aim.org/aim-column/as-meta-changes-policy-on-calls-for-violence-one-thing-is-clear-government-points-stick-big-tech-uses-stick/</ref> Zelensky thanked Facebook on [[Twitter]] for helping to win the propaganda war.<ref>https://summit.news/2022/03/14/zelensky-thanks-zuckerberg-for-helping-him-win-the-propaganda-war/</ref>
===Deep fake chemical bomb attack on Paris===
In an effort to shore up support from Western audiences for a war against Russia, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense released a [[deep fake]] video of an imaginary chemical bomb attack on [[Paris]] to frighten viewers and gain sympathy for the Kyiv regime.<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/editors-picks/ukraine-paris-bomb-deep-fake-b2034714.html</ref><ref>https://youtu.be/ZNBWB1tYqm8</ref>
===''New York Times'' reporter killed===
On March 14, 2022 news headlines in [[the West]] claimed that a ''[[New York Times]]'' journalist was killed in Ukraine. Brent Renaud was wearing a NY Times badge and lanyard at the time of his death. He had not worked for the ''Times'' since 2015. ''NYT'' denied that Brent Renaud was working for the ''NYT'' at the time of his death. According to ''[[Gateway Pundit]]'', it appears Renaud was some sort of Intel collector for the US. Renaud was killed in Ukrainian-held territory. ''The New York Times'' confirmed Renaud was killed at a Ukrainian checkpoint.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/update-american-reporter-brent-renaud-killed-ukrainian-checkpoint-behind-russian-front-likely-friendly-fire-incident/</ref>
===Ukrainian firefighters===
Press secretary Iuliia Mendel for Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted a photo of alleged Ukrainian firefighters with soot caked on their faces with the caption "These are our Ukrainian Firefighters!" in a Facebook post on March 17, 2022.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220317181514/https://twitter.com/IuliiaMendel/status/1504507154333581314</ref> "Thank you!" Punctuated with the Nazi slogan "Glory to the Heroes!"<ref>https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/250641</ref> A Ukrainian flag emoji ends the post. But the picture actually shows firefighters from [[Australia]] fighting bushfires in [[Tasmania]] originally from February 2019.<ref>https://archive.ph/UDVVd</ref>
===Chemical weapons===
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is an intergovernmental organisation and the implementing body for the [[Chemical Weapons Convention]] (CWC), which entered into force on April 29, 1997. The organisation promotes and verifies the adherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits the use of chemical weapons and requires their destruction. Verification consists both of evaluation of declarations by member states and onsite inspections. The OPCW, with its 193 member states, is based in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]] and oversees the global endeavour for the permanent and verifiable elimination of chemical weapons. The organisation was awarded the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] in 2013.
On September 27, 2017, OPCW announced that Russia had destroyed its entire chemical weapons stockpile.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rbc.ru/society/27/09/2017/59cb9f2b9a79472490943b5b|title=Путин поучаствовал в уничтожении последнего в России килограмма химоружия|website=РБК|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opcw.org/media-centre/news/2017/09/opcw-director-general-commends-major-milestone-russia-completes|title=OPCW Director-General Commends Major Milestone as Russia Completes Destruction of Chemical Weapons Stockpile under OPCW Verification|website=OPCW}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.opcw.org/fileadmin/OPCW/CSP/C-22/national_statements/UK_Statement.pdf|title=UK Delegation to the OPCW}}</ref>
==See also==
==See also==