{"id":47179,"date":"2026-05-21T13:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=47179"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T08:32:18","slug":"russia-lies-to-foreign-media-about-humane-strikes-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-lies-to-foreign-media-about-humane-strikes-on-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"russia lies to foreign media about \u201chumane\u201d strikes on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian foreign minister sergey lavrov made another cynical statement. He assured foreign journalists that russia allegedly \u201cdoes not want to cause excessive damage\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s territory and \u201cdoes not use all available means.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Such statements are aimed exclusively at misleading foreign audiences and creating a false image of a \u201cmerciful\u201d russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In reality, Lavrov\u2019s words are blatant lies marked by extreme cynicism. Ukrainian cities such as Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Pokrovsk, Vuhledar, Toretsk, Vovchansk, and dozens of others have been virtually erased by russian forces, turned into ruins.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The few residents who still remain in these destroyed settlements have witnessed firsthand the so-called \u201chumanity\u201d of the occupiers and know exactly what the \u201crussian world\u201d truly brings.<\/p>\n<p>lavrov\u2019s statements fit into the aggressor\u2019s traditional propaganda strategy. By attempting to portray a war of aggression and the destruction of civilian infrastructure as \u201cmeasured actions,\u201d the kremlin seeks to evade responsibility for its war crimes against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian foreign minister sergey lavrov made another cynical statement. He assured foreign journalists that russia allegedly \u201cdoes not want to cause excessive damage\u201d to Ukraine\u2019s territory and \u201cdoes not use all available means.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f Such statements are aimed exclusively at misleading foreign audiences and creating a false image of a \u201cmerciful\u201d russia. \u25ab\ufe0f In reality,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47180,"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-47179","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\/47179","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=47179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}