STRASSBURG (dpa-AFX) – In connection with the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the EU Commission wants to punish the authors of targeted false information in the future. “I will propose a new mechanism that will allow us to sanction these malicious disinformation actors,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday.
According to Borrell, the Kremlin and its mouthpieces are systematically lying about the situation in Ukraine. For example, it is claimed that the Ukrainian authorities bombed their own people in order to then blame Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is portrayed as a Nazi and a war criminal. Not only buildings, infrastructure and people would be bombed in this war, Borrell said. “They bombard her mind.”
Borrell did not say what kind of sanctions could be imposed – nor when punitive measures could come. Authors of misinformation could be punished, for example, with their assets in the EU being frozen or with being no longer allowed to enter the EU./vio/DP/nas