NY post link.

On March 30 at 6:30 a.m., a shell hit has woken up people in a crowded district of Donetsk. The Armed Forces of Ukraine used two Uragan rocket system (220 mm) from the Orlovka, as reported by JCCC. The building’s floors from 6 to 9 were destroyed. Two civilians, one woman and one man, died. Man’s little daughter is currently in a critical condition and is in a coma. Her mother was wounded severely. Source.

Other parts of DPR were also shelled. That day four civilians were killed and 32 were wounded. Today, a 27-years old man was killed in Donetsk.

This is not a first time a western media had used Ukrainian shelling Of DPR or LPR to prove their point. BBC once posted a photo of building hit by Ukrainian forces in Donetsk (DPR, Mironova street, 5) as the Russian shelling of Kharkiv.

  • ana@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 years ago

    It’s pretty self-explanatory that spineless Western media outlets are in dire need of content and public support to get their clicks and image boost. Even if someone were to bring up the point that the shelling is in fact not done by Russians, it’ll go down the typical propaganda blur process, either:

    • getting outright ignored, and on social platforms, the posts are seen as “pro-Putin” and are automatically disliked, censored, etc; or
    • getting sent farther down the rabbit hole under the accusation that it’s “pro-Putin propaganda” and then a narrative is slowly built up about how they’re in fact the ones to be correct.

    For the last point: look up the Karl-Marx-Allee and see its history with regard to being “Stalin’s bathroom”. In short, about a decade ago, a person thought it’d be funny to claim this boulevard in Berlin was called “Stalin’s bathroom” (due to some marble decoration) during the DDR times.

    In the similar, repetitive fashion of anti-communist perspectives that the West takes on, an editor found it to be “credible enough”. It was then rooted into the Wikipedia page and as a result led to a lot of media exposure, cementing the fact it was “Stalin’s bathroom”.

    The same person tried to edit their joke out years later and the request got declined by a Wikipedia administrator. They later came out to be a journalist who detailed the situation in full, and that is the only reason it got enough awareness to be fixed. At the same time, it could have been highly possible the journalist would have been called a liar and not been trusted, meaning we’d still think this joke was real to this day.

    Media ethics and digital competence are imperative to have for this exact reason. Too many people however simply refuse to or cannot acknowledge these things, either by own choice or not. It is really sad.