russian propaganda has launched a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at justifying the massive strikes on civilian and cultural sites in Kyiv during the night of June 15 and evading responsibility for its own war crimes.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Enemy information resources are following a familiar pattern: they attempt to disguise the deliberate terrorizing of civilians as \u201cstrikes on military targets\u201d or shift the blame onto Ukraine itself.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f In particular, propagandists describe the large fire at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (a UNESCO World Heritage site) as a \u201cUkrainian provocation\u201d and \u201carson.\u201d Likewise, the enemy is spreading conspiracy theories alleging that the Ukrainian authorities were somehow involved in the strike on the building of the High Anti-Corruption Court.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f The Dovzhenko Film Studio has been declared a \u201clegitimate military target\u201d because it is allegedly a \u201cbreeding ground for propaganda.\u201d Propaganda outlets are also pushing claims that weapons-production facilities disguised as civilian sites are being set up throughout Kyiv \u2014 in the imagination of russian propagandists, virtually every building is a \u201cmilitary facility.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f As usual, they have also resorted to blaming \u201cUkrainian air defense\u201d for damage to civilian buildings.<\/p>\n
russia alone bears full responsibility for the deaths and injuries of Kyiv\u2019s civilians, as well as for the destruction of historical and civilian infrastructure, and it must be held accountable. No amount of manipulation, conspiracy theories, or attempts to assign a \u201cmilitary status\u201d to civilian sites will help the aggressor conceal yet another war crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian propaganda has launched a large-scale disinformation campaign aimed at justifying the massive strikes on civilian and cultural sites in Kyiv during the night of June 15 and evading responsibility for its own war crimes. \u25ab\ufe0f Enemy information resources are following a familiar pattern: they attempt to disguise the deliberate terrorizing of civilians as \u201cstrikes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47966,"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-47965","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\/47965","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=47965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}