Inna Afinogenova, the best-known face of RT (formerly Russia Today) in Spanish, announced this Tuesday that she is leaving the chain financed by the Russian state. The reason: she is against the war that Vladimir Putin has launched in the Ukraine. After Several weeks disappeared from social networksAfinogenova used her Telegram account, where she has almost 150,000 subscribers, and her YouTube channel to explain that she is leaving her job because she does not agree with the invasion.
“Many of those who followed my work ask and ask where I am, if I’m alive, if I’m okay. And it’s true that I owe you an explanation for more than a month. I think many of you already imagine it, but never A first-hand confirmation is bad. I actually left RT“, explained the presenter in a farewell video.
As for the reasons, he had already suggested them when, a few days after the invasion began, he spoke out against it. “Basically I don’t agree with this war. So far it’s not hard to understand: who can agree to a war? A few, I am not among them. Well, that “, she says in the message that she has recorded, which she has titled ‘What happened to Inna (told by Inna)’.
The journalist, who has so far interpreted the score marked from Moscow in a chain accused by several governments of trying to interfere in Western political life, and of having become the main agent of Russian propaganda, thus deviates from the line of the Kremlin. Despite everything, in the video she maintains that the propaganda to which European citizens are subjected is not very different from that consumed by Russians, and compares the war in Ukraine with others in which the aggressor has been a NATO country.
“I am not going to agree with a war that affects the civilian population of my country, but neither with one that affects that of countries as far away and unknown as Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Sudan or Palestine. And it gives me just as the one who throws bombs is the US, France, Israel, Ukraine on Ukraine itself – which is what it has been doing for years – or Russia,” he says in the video.
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Afinogenova adds that she also does not understand the war in Ukraine “from a strategic point of view”because it has strengthened NATO, “an organization that was in full decline, seemed totally anachronistic, and that not even in their wettest dreams could they have imagined that someone would do them such a favor as the one the government of my country did them”.
After also criticizing those who “prolong” the war “by sending more and more weapons” (referring to Western aid to Ukraine), the Russian journalist assures that she does not know if RT, the channel for which she has worked in the last few years, he has made war propaganda. “I’m not going to enter. I speak for myself: I am not going to make war propaganda“, he assures.
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Then he goes to the Europeans. “Don’t be fooled: it’s not a question of good guys and bad guys. It’s propaganda. And you also eat it with potatoes. Exactly like the Russians eat it. Right now you have even more reason, because they prohibited you from seeing the other side. They have it blocked where they live,” says Afinogenova about the I veto RT and Sputnik in almost all of Europe and in other countries.
In the ironic line that she always used when she made videos for her program on RT ‘Ahí les va’, the journalist says goodbye, assuring that she is no longer financed by “any evil government, any bank, any vulture fund”. “But if there is someone, of the axis of evil obviouslywho wants to collaborate: I am open to proposals”, she concludes, before realizing that she is joking.