KYIV. UkraineGate , 17 , May , 2022 | War News.
A large-scale political provocation is being prepared in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in an attempt to attract some Western journalists. These are representatives of the media from France, the United States, Germany, Japan, Greece, China, Belarus, India, Venezuela, Bulgaria and the UAE.
Citing the press service of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
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“Russia is trying to attract foreign media to create fakes. (…) The occupier’s information and mass communications department is urgently preparing a press tour of foreign journalists to the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. From May 18 to 21, the occupiers plan to show the media destroyed areas. Mariupol “, – it is told in the message.
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According to military intelligence, Kremlin propagandists plan to accuse Ukraine of destroying the city, so they have already brought to Mariupol fragments of Ukrainian ammunition collected from all occupied areas of Donetsk region.
In addition, “local eyewitnesses” will come to Donetsk and Horlivka to tell journalists about the “crimes” of the defenders of Mariupol, according to the GUR.
The intelligence service emphasizes that the “press tour” also includes the group’s departure from Rostov-on-Don and journalists’ visits to Kherson, Nova Kakhovka, Skadovsk, Armyansk and Donetsk, where a meeting with DNR leader Denis Pushylin is planned.
“We warn foreign journalists about the plans of the aggressor’s propagandists to make them accomplices in the creation of fake materials and remind them of criminal liability for illegal crossing of the state border of Ukraine and intrusion into the territory of an independent state,” the GUR said.
Source: Ukrgate