{"id":38613,"date":"2025-10-07T13:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T10:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=38613"},"modified":"2025-10-07T12:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T09:47:09","slug":"ru-propaganda-lies-again-to-justify-strikes-on-kherson-and-zaporizhzhia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/ru-propaganda-lies-again-to-justify-strikes-on-kherson-and-zaporizhzhia\/","title":{"rendered":"ru-propaganda lies again to justify strikes on Kherson and Zaporizhzhia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is once again attempting to justify terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities by spreading false claims that Ukrainian Armed Forces are \u201chiding in residential buildings\u201d in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f kremlin-controlled media claim that Ukrainian troops \u201cuse residential neighborhoods as cover\u201d and that local residents supposedly \u201creport\u201d these locations to russian occupiers. In this way, the enemy tries to create the illusion that russian forces are not responsible for the destruction of the cities \u2014 portraying their attacks as mere \u201cresponses to local requests\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, such statements are another cynical attempt to excuse russia for its daily terrorist assaults on Ukrainian cities. Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and other frontline regions are regularly targeted by airstrikes, missiles, and drones, resulting in civilian casualties and the destruction of critical infrastructure. The kremlin continues to distort reality to shift responsibility for its own war crimes onto Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda is once again attempting to justify terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities by spreading false claims that Ukrainian Armed Forces are \u201chiding in residential buildings\u201d in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. \u25ab\ufe0f kremlin-controlled media claim that Ukrainian troops \u201cuse residential neighborhoods as cover\u201d and that local residents supposedly \u201creport\u201d these locations to russian occupiers. In this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38614,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613","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=38613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}