From Human Rights in Ukraine by Halya Coynash
Moscow may officially deny complicity in war crimes, but it funds a state propaganda machine aimed at justifying its genocidal war against Ukraine
In the USSR, state television simply repeated the lies issued by the Soviet Politburo. Now Moscow officially denies Russia’s worst war crimes in Ukraine, while the state-funded and controlled media effectively boast of them. Those who point to Russian censorship and assert that most Russians ‘simply don’t know’ what is happening, would do well to consider the virulent warmongering poured out on widely available state television channels.
Russian airstrikes on the centre of Odesa on 23 July caused massive devastation to the Transfiguration Cathedral, as well as 25 other places of huge historical and cultural significance. The attack was immediately condemned by, among others, UNESCO which had named the Historic Centre of Odesa a World Heritage site on 25 January this year. The official Moscow line was, and remains, that the damage, at least to the Cathedral, was caused by a Ukrainian air defence missile.
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