Moscow, Aug. 15 (Russian Foreign Ministry) – Today, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the Self-Defence units of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s Republics, are delivering on the objectives of the special military operation with great resolve to put an end to the outrageous discrimination and genocide of the Russian people and eliminate direct threats to the security of the Russian Federation that the United States and its satellites have been creating on Ukrainian territory for years. While losing on the battlefield, the Ukrainian regime and its Western patrons have descended to staging bloody incidents to demonize our country in the eyes of the international community. We have already seen Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, and Kremenchug. The Russian Defence Ministry has been regularly issuing warnings, with facts in hand, about upcoming staged incidents and fakes. There is a distinctive pattern that betrays the provocations staged by the West and its henchmen. In fact, they started long before the Ukrainian events.

“The development of the anti-Russian information campaign of the United States and the European Union countries concerning Ukraine surprisingly resembles the scenarios of past media campaigns against the geopolitical opponents of the West. Foreign mass media quickly picked up low quality fakes about the «atrocities of the Russians» in Bucha, Irpen, Gostomel, Mariupol cities. It is obvious that by spreading lies about the events in Ukrainian cities, the «Kiev regime» and its Western promoters tried to divert public attention from the torture of Russian prisoners of war, which really took place and was a war crime prohibited by a number of Conventions, including the Geneva Convention. Similar methods of falsifying facts and replicating fakes were used by the countries of the «collective» West led by the United States and Great Britain in Syria, Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua. This list can be supplemented for a long time. In addition, where Kiev got all these methods is also quite clear.”

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