Cuz trollers gonna troll:
And in cased you missed it, another bit of Russian information warfare debunked via The Independent:
Oh, are "they"? :-)
Stunning, and stunningly "brazen," to quote Washington.
Moscow has assailed Kyiv over the latter's media ban -- which targets dozens of Russian stations and their journalists' accreditations, and should last until the current conflict is over -- as "openly discriminatory."
Ukrainian officials have made some arguably questionable decisions with respect to the media since the conflict erupted.
But Russian media have also been guilty of credulity, spreading disinformation, and seemingly participating in the abuse of prisoners of war and hostages.
Notably, Russian TV channel Dozhd was not among the banned media by Ukraine.
Whether intentional or not, in this RT piece, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov laughably describes Russia as "a country where media activity is regulated by law, and where Russian and foreign journalists have equal rights to obtain information."
Today's map from Ukrainian military authorities...
Just re-upping an important sidenote, highlighted by The Guardian, to Saturday's "anti-Maidan" demonstrations in Russia:
Ousted Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych has controversially spoken out from self-imposed exile in Russia, promising, exactly a year after he fled Kiev, to return to Ukraine to “ease people’s lives” and help stop the war.
Yanukovych’s interview with Russia’s state-owned Channel One was his first public appearance since he gave two bizarre press conferences in Rostov-on-Donin February and March 2014, claiming he remained Ukraine’s president.
“I regret that I was unable to do anything,” Yanukovych said. “As soon as it’s possible, I will come back and do everything in my power to ease people’s lives. The main task now is to stop the war.”