Really .. and anything comming from the pro-Ruussian side is nothing but the truth and facts!?
I think anyone with a decent rationale knows pretty sure that the truth is one of the first victim of any war but I find it - to put it mildly - that some here still think this is a justified war against a Nazi-regime, that only military targets are attacked and destroyed and that the Russian mission is progressing as planned.
We should take ANY claim if not substantiated by image proof with a huge grain of salt.
Both the Western and Russian media were guilty of distortion and propaganda. But from what I have observed since 2014, the Russian side has been telling a heck of a lot more truths about Ukraine than the Western side.
When Russia said that there were Nazis in Ukraine, that was fact. Even the Western media can't hide that fact. Ukraine's got the Right Sector, a militant group of the Euromaidan. Their flag is an adoption of the old Stephan Bandera flag of Red and Black. Who is Stephan Bandera? We can all look him up. Most infamous of all, they have the Azov Battalion. Those Nazis adopted the Wolfsangel symbol, the same symbol that was used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. You can't get any more obvious than that. These are not facts that had just appeared on 24th Feb 2022, they have been there since 2014.
The problem with Ukraine is that their Nazis were not just some skin-head gangs. They were actual armed militant groups, and they had become part of the Ukrainian military. These fascists were far from harmless. They have perpetrated the Odessa massacre (reported by the UN OHCHR), that kicked-off the 2014 civil war in Ukraine, and have been waging war on Eastern Ukrainians ever since, for 8 years. Then there is Ukrainian side flouting the Minsk I & II Agreements. Then there was the actual banning of the Russian language by the Verkhovna Rada in 2019. Something bad is bound to happen when there has been 8 years of bloodshed, ethnic cleansing, Russophobia, threat of NATO ascension, and nuclear weapon ambitions.
It is difficult to argue that there is a serious problem now in the world media. I have never seen censorship at such a scale ever. Not even the Soviets could ever pull off censorship of such scale and sophistication. And this super-censorship is carried out by the Western democracies! Both the West and Russia tell their own biased stories. But the stories from the Ukrainian and the West are filled with so many holes, it has become embarrassing. If they were really telling more truths than Russia, why do they need this super-censorship on Russia? There is no need to do that if Russia was truly telling lies. People can make up their own minds. The West has far superior media and academic strength to combat Russian disinformation. Why are they so weak this time, that they need to hide behind censorship? Are they actually afraid of people getting curious about Russia's story? For me, this super-censorship of Russia alone is a big red flag that Ukraine and the West are lying big time.
If we want to criticize Russia. Well, Russia's own version of disinformation is actually more akin to omission. They hardly share information about their losses. This thing is not unique to Russia alone. And yes, the Russians did tell some lies, but those lies were still nothing on the scale of lies by the Ukrainians and the West. But Russia, unlike Ukraine and the West had even dared to backtrack on statements that were later found to be false. This is not what Russia is could ever do, if we fully believe the West. Nevertheless, should we be concerned about what Russia is hiding and lying about, don't worry. Its all out there on the MSM, sometimes many times exaggerated. We can watch them, and make our own assessment.
