{"id":41367,"date":"2025-12-13T14:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=41367"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:41:05","slug":"the-cynicism-is-striking-russian-propagandists-exploit-donbas-ruins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/the-cynicism-is-striking-russian-propagandists-exploit-donbas-ruins\/","title":{"rendered":"The cynicism is striking: russian propagandists exploit Donbas ruins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Propagandist alexander malkevich released a report about occupied Toshkivka in Luhansk region. Set to pompous music, he shows nothing but ruins and people living in these inhumane conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fBefore russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, over 2,000 people lived in Toshkivka. Today, barely a hundred remain. The village has no electricity, gas, hospitals, pharmacies, or stores. There used to be a mine providing jobs, but now only ruins remain. The village has been under occupation since 2022, yet the much-publicized russian \u201creconstruction\u201d has never started.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fIn the video, the propagandist repeatedly claims that Ukrainian forces allegedly destroyed the village. This is a typical russian lie, meant to absolve themselves of responsibility for their own crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fmalkevich also boasts that once a month, russian \u201cvolunteers\u201d visit Toshkivka to deliver essential items\u2014food, hygiene products, clothing\u2014which are presented as \u201cgreat happiness.\u201d But he forgets the main point: before russia\u2019s arrival, the local people did not need these handouts. They had jobs, homes, and a normal life.<\/p>\n<p>The video is striking in its cynicism. First, the russians destroyed the village, and now they are self-promoting their visits there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Propagandist alexander malkevich released a report about occupied Toshkivka in Luhansk region. Set to pompous music, he shows nothing but ruins and people living in these inhumane conditions. \u25ab\ufe0fBefore russia\u2019s full-scale invasion, over 2,000 people lived in Toshkivka. Today, barely a hundred remain. The village has no electricity, gas, hospitals, pharmacies, or stores. There used&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41368,"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-41367","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\/41367","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=41367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}