If a person reads Russian information resources and resources controlled by the occupiers, s/he wants to ask: how? How is it possible to lie, manipulate and distort the facts like this?
Propaganda resources do not write as much about Sievkerodonetsk as, for example, about Mariupol and other occupied cities of Ukraine. However, they write.
Trybun analyzed the next wave of fakes invented by Russian propagandists.
Let's start with the first fake, which was spread by Russian propaganda about Sievierodonetsk on April 29, 2023:
The Russian Telegram channel "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published that it that workers were allegedly building "new facilities" in Sievierodonetsk.
screenshot from the Russian Telegram channel "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
At first glance, the video shows the residential building being restored, does not it? As if there is nothing suspicious.
After that, we decided to check in which place this video was filmed.
We didn't have to search for a long time. The post from the event was on the channel of the head of the regional occupation administration, Leonid Pasichnyk. As you can see, the place is very similar.
As soon as it began to be spread in the Sievierodonetsk Telegram channels and Viber chats, people noticed that they were being deceived.
The content of the messages in the chats was as follows: "We never had such residential building at all", "This is not Sievuerodonetsk", "Where is it anyway?", "I can't recognize it".
In fact, the video was shot in the city of Alchevsk on the street Volgogradskaya.
This is the place where the unfinished building is located. We conducted a small analysis with geosearch. It is below:
Location: 48.459472,38.841615
Russian propaganda specially manipulates and distorts the facts so that the Russian reader will believe it.
The second fake or manipulation and distortion of facts: "Sievierodonetsk celebrated Victory Day for the first time in many years"
Resources controlled by the occupiers published such news:
Russian propaganda wants to distort the fact and manipulates the narrative: "Victory Day was celebrated for the first time in 8 years"
In fact, in Sievierodonetsk for the period 2015-2021 there were solemn events for the Day of Victory over Nazism. Both veterans of the Anti-Terrorist Operation/Operation of the United Forces and veterans of the Second World War attended
these events.
As an example, we can show a photo for 2021:
In Sievierodonetsk, no one canceled Victory Day and never planned to.This can be confirmed by local people who have been there all their lives and participated in events leading up to this memorable day.
Russian propaganda has once again twisted the facts in its own way and shows its audience a distorted picture of reality.
"The Armed Forces of Ukraine blew up the Pavlograd bridge during the retreat from Sievierodonetsk"
Russian propaganda has been spreading this fake since the summer of 2022.
The purpose of this narrative: to show that they are not involved here, and to put all the blame on the Armed Forces of UkraineHowever, this bridge was blown up by the Russian military, namely by a 2S7 "Pion" mortar. They even released a plot where they hit this bridge.It was May 20-21, 2022.
Source: https://t.me/kitsunetg/996
According to them, this bridge was blown up by the Armed Forces before the retreat. Although Ukrainian troops retreated from Sievierodonetsk as early as June 24, 2022.
Russians hit the bridge.Consequences
Russian propaganda distorts the facts, manipulates, creates a picture from this: "We are Russians and we are good, but the Ukrainians are very bad".
Russia is doing this on purpose so that some Russian reader will believe, even though s/he does not even know where that Sievierodonetsk is located and in which oblast.
