russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the massive strikes on Ukrainian cities \u201ca completely natural response to Ukraine\u2019s actions.\u201d Similar views are expressed by other representatives of kremlin and the russian ministry of defense.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The narrative of supposed \u201cretaliatory strikes\u201d is actively promoted to foreign audiences. kremlin seeks to portray itself as a party allegedly open to dialogue but \u201cforced to respond to aggression.\u201d In reality, moscow continues to stall and search for excuses not to cease fire.<\/p>\n
The reality is that it was russia that launched a full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022 and continues to terrorize Ukrainian cities and villages every day. With lies about so-called \u201cresponses,\u201d russia is trying to evade responsibility for attacks that kill innocent Ukrainian civilians, including children.<\/p>\n
Statements by lavrov and other russian officials are part of the kremlin\u2019s broader propaganda strategy: russia also justified the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine with fabricated threats supposedly coming from Ukraine and the West.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian foreign minister sergey lavrov called the massive strikes on Ukrainian cities \u201ca completely natural response to Ukraine\u2019s actions.\u201d Similar views are expressed by other representatives of kremlin and the russian ministry of defense. \u25ab\ufe0f The narrative of supposed \u201cretaliatory strikes\u201d is actively promoted to foreign audiences. kremlin seeks to portray itself as a party…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}