Look at this, world. Don't look away.
This is Kyiv tonight.
A European capital. Home to more than 3 million people.
Under a massive russian ballistic missile barrage.
This isn't the first time. Unless russia is stopped, it won't be the last.
Odesa right now ‼️
Bodies on the sidewalk, fires, and shattered glass. Yet another Russian terrorist attack on the city, killing people simply for being Ukrainian and living in their own country.
In light of the recent data breach of Ksenia Sobchak’s media empire, Ostorozhno Media, exposing her as working directly with Russian authorities, I want to remind everyone that this ✨️article ✨️ exists.
The Kremlin keeps sending stool pigeons to the West, and Western media publishes every piece of Russian propaganda they are given and hungrily asks for more.
Every person with knowledge of the region (or more than two living brain cells) told the NYT that they were platforming a propagandist at the time the article was released. Did they listen? Nope.
Meanwhile, the interesting things we are finding out from the data breach include groveling to Kremlin censors, namely Sergey Novikov, head of the Kremlin’s Presidential Directorate for Social Projects; hard-core self-censorship on the fuel crisis in Russia; scolding her chief news editor for publishing bad remarks about Russian messenger Max, an FSB project to keep the Russian internet space under control; long talks with Margarita Simonyan; funding from the Moscow Mayor's office and state-backed corporations; and many, many more interesting things exposing Ksenia herself and her media as a complete and total Kremlin tool.
Yet, does the Western media learn anything from this? Nope. The Economist article with Russian oligarch Andrey Melnichenko shows exactly how much nonsense they are ready to swallow if you wave a chance to write a ✨️sensation✨️ in front of their noses.
Maybe it's time to stop and think about whether your sensationalism feeds your own citizens with foreign propaganda and helps an invading state wage a war and keep murdering civilians daily?
@maurizioacerbo Acerbo sei consapevole di star amplificando un personaggio di estrema destra, del partito Confederazione e Patrioti per l'Europa?
Il fronte rossobruno resta saldo.
In today’s Vatnik Soup, we introduce Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a French far-left politician. He’s best known for founding the party La France Insoumise (“Unsubmissive France”), demanding submission from his own movement and advocating global submission to authoritarian dictators.
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Shocking moment of today's Russian strike on Sumy, which killed 5 people‼️
Please do not look away!
No mother should be forced to cover her children's bodies with her own like this. No child should have to live through such horrors!
Vasyl Stus was probably Ukraine’s most significant 20th century poet. He died in the camps on Gorbachev’s watch, one of the Soviet Union’s last political martyrs. His hometown of Donetsk is now under Russian occupation. https://t.co/MZ4WU3Zad0
BREAKING:
Shooting for the Stars: secret military documents we obtained show China fully involved with supporting Russian war in Ukraine and plans against the West, even offered a contingency plan to shoot down @elonmusk's Starlink. https://t.co/uFfZtB7jde
Remember all this scandal between Poland’s president and government about the grave harm to national security allegedly caused by supplying Ukraine with Patriot interceptors? Turns out the Polish government has provided a total of *FIVE* interceptor missiles altogether.
Russia has fired hundreds of ballistic missiles at Ukraine since then.
https://t.co/FC8yABm0EM
🔴 Russia has caused a staggering $24 billion in damage to Ukraine's cultural heritage since the invasion began, according to a new World Bank estimate.
https://t.co/xERfIfpRLl
If you look at major European parties, Italy’s Conte and his 5 Stars (part of the center-left opposition) are much more closely aligned to the Kremlin than even Germany’s AFD.
“To impoverish us, they are manufacturing the Russian threat to justify the rearmament to our teeth, to make us go to war,” could have been said by Zakharova or Simonyan.
(When Conte was prime minister during Covid, he allowed the Russian army to deploy to Italy on a “humanitarian mission” with little purpose except Kremlin PR.)