The Russian Embassy in Spain counterattacks with propaganda in favor of the invasion

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  • The diplomatic legation replicates the Kremlin narrative: that Moscow has been “patient“and it had to defend itself against a Ukraine”genocidal” and “Nazi”

  • Russia uses false arguments to justify the invasion of the neighboring country. The EU prohibits the broadcast of televisions RussiaToday and Sputnik and its subsidiaries

While intensifying the offensive in Ukraine, while the West increases its sanctions, Russia redoubles its propaganda action to defend its attack on a people it considers a brother. The Embassy of Russia in Spain is another producer of arguments in favor of the regime and against a “genocidal” Ukraine. Just take a look at your Twitter timeline. His desire is to emphasize that Moscow has been too “patient”, because he has not responded for eight years to what he describes as Ukrainian provocations. That is to say, that the aggression has been inevitable, that there was no other way. False arguments, as highlighted by the European Commission, which this Sunday he proposed to banin the Old Continent, television broadcasts RussiaToday and Sputnik-TV and its affiliates, to curb the “Kremlin media machine”.

The best summary of Vladimir Putin’s propaganda is exemplified by a video of the creators of the podcast ‘Russian Spies’ (@laruedadata), which the Embassy in Madrid retweeted this Sunday and which supports the thesis that it is Moscow that defends itself, not the one that attacks. “Do you really think that the leadership of the Russian state is celebrating for having opted for military action? That they did it for imperialist ambitions of Russia?” begins the videowhich shows the journalist Jelena MilincicSerbian who survived the NATO bombing in 1999, speaking on camera.

The EU recalls, through its EUvsDisinfo project, that none of the many reports on the human rights situation in Ukraine refer to any genocide

Milincic responds by emphasizing that Russia has been “patient”, because Moscow “insisted and insisted” that Ukraine respect the Minsk agreements “that Kiev refused to comply with”, and had “a lot of patience”, he continues, “while the Ukrainians Russians were killed in the neighboring country“. It refers to the supposed “genocide”, ‘casus belli’ for Putincommitted by Kiev in the Ukrainian breakaway territories of Donetsk and Lugansk, which the Russian president recognized as independent this week.

However, how the EUvsDisinfo project affectsa team from the EU External Action Service specialized in detecting and responding to Kremlin disinformation campaigns,”neither of the many reports on the situation of human rights in Ukraine, which are regularly published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights”, as well as the OSCE reports, make “reference” some to a genocide in the Ukraine.

“Time to say enough”

Amnesty International did point that both the Kiev authorities and the Moscow-backed Donbas separatists held civilians “in arbitrary and prolonged detention, without contact with the outside world.” In some cases, the arrests were “forced disappearences“, and most of the detainees “they suffered torture or other forms of ill-treatment”. report of the organization, of July 2016, details the cases that occurred in that year and in the previous year. But there is no talk of genocide either.

“The balance of forces in the world, after last February 24, will never be the same,” says the video, evidencing Putin’s intention to give birth to a new order

Milincic also reproduces the Kremlin’s thesis that in Ukraine “more and more nazi movementswho did everything possible to kill the Soviet past in common”. “They destroyed monuments, historical symbols and even forbade speaking in Russian”. Putin, in fact, justified the attack on the need to “denazify” the neighboring country. The narrative dates back to the participation of violent far-right groups in the Maidan mobilizations of 2014. But the current president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian by profession, is Russian-speaking and son of Jews, and his party, Servant of the People, is centrist.

West, according to the video of ‘Russian Spies‘, has been “for a long time trying in every way to provoke Russia into attacking Ukraine” and has been writing for “months” of the “imminent attack“. And while, keep going, Ukraine “continued to bomb Donbas day after day, feeling powerful.” So it cannot be “surprised” that Moscow “reacts”. Milincic also recovers the argument that NATO “promised not to expand and did so without hesitation” and is getting “closer” to the Russian borders. “It’s time to say enough“, the recording points out, to justify Putin’s attack last Thursday, to “put a stop to NATO and its imperial arrogance.” “The balance of forces in the world, after last February 24, will never be the same”, The video concludes, showing that Russia intends to give birth to a new order and recompose its sphere of influence.

The tweets of Russian Embassy in Spain they clothe the Argument exhibited in the recordingand promote hashtags #MeWithRussia #StopNaziUkraine or #StandWithRussia. The messages from the diplomatic legation also review the US military intervention since World War II, replicate the support provided by Chinadescribe the invasion as “special military operation” (as Putin called it) and reproduce the statements of the Russian president and his Cabinet.

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The arguments used by Moscow and multiplied through its platforms are “junk information”, as defined by the high representative of the EU this Sunday on TVE newscast 2. That is why the president of the Community Executive, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed ban the broadcasts in Europe of Russia Today and Sputnik so that the Russian state media and its affiliates cannot “spread their lies to justify Putin’s war and to sow division in our Union”.



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