russia\u2019s foreign minister sergey lavrov claimed that russia allegedly \u201cwas not the first\u201d to strike Ukraine\u2019s energy and civilian infrastructure and once again repeated the narrative of Moscow\u2019s supposed \u201cretaliatory strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f This is yet another example of classic kremlin propaganda based on distorting reality and substituting cause and effect. In this way, lavrov seeks to justify massive missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian cities and russia\u2019s refusal to agree to a ceasefire.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The narrative that \u201cUkrainians struck first\u201d is actively promoted to foreign audiences. The kremlin seeks to blur responsibility for the war and portray russia\u2019s actions as \u201cforced.\u201d russia is attempting to mislead the international community by shifting responsibility for the war onto the victim of aggression.<\/p>\n
The reality is simple and unambiguous: it was russia that launched a full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022. It is the russian army that systematically carries out terrorist attacks on Ukraine\u2019s energy facilities, leaving thousands of civilians without electricity and heat. russia is the aggressor, and it is russia alone that can stop this war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russia\u2019s foreign minister sergey lavrov claimed that russia allegedly \u201cwas not the first\u201d to strike Ukraine\u2019s energy and civilian infrastructure and once again repeated the narrative of Moscow\u2019s supposed \u201cretaliatory strikes.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f This is yet another example of classic kremlin propaganda based on distorting reality and substituting cause and effect. In this way, lavrov seeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43450,"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-43449","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\/43449","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=43449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}