Ukraine and the “special military operation”, as it is called in Russia, remain the main topic of the evening news bulletins in Russia.
The restrictions on news broadcast in the country are very strict, access to almost all independent media outlets is either completely blocked or restricted and there is self-censorship.
The official state television TV Russia 1the state controlled Channel One and NTV which belongs to Gazprom media, hosted detailed topics that more or less reproduced the same narrative and similar arguments.
The following is a summary of the BBC coverage of key issues of the war:
- Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that a planned force reshuffle was taking place on the outskirts of Kiev and Chernihiv and that the first phase of the operation had achieved its goals, which were “to hit the enemy’s ability to operate without hit cities including Kyiv “. He added that the forces were now focusing on the “complete liberation of Donbass”.
- During the last round of talks in Istanbul, the basic idea of ​​the responses was that Ukraine was finally forced to accept the Russian demands that Moscow has been pushing for years. Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky appeared on the bulletins to list the following: no NATO or other military alliance, no neutral regime, no foreign base or troops on Ukrainian soil, no nuclear or other weapons of mass destruction.
- Russian media have blamed rocket attacks on apartment buildings and civilian deaths in Donetsk and Luhansk on Ukrainian neo-Nazis. They also said that Russian forces and fighters continue to develop and consolidate territory, provide assistance and restore services to “grateful” residents in newly occupied cities.
- To cover the war by the Western media, NTV and Channel One aired excerpts from Western media to highlight the “nature” of the Ukrainian forces. They especially featured a viral video showing Russian prisoners being shot and abused, which shocked and excited the New York Times, among others.
- More “facts” about the Nazi tendencies in Ukraine were presented by a group of academics set up by the Russian Ministry of Education to examine the history books found in the schools that were “liberated” in the cities of Donbas. This is a “brainwashing,” said Education Minister Sergei Kratsov. “Everything was funded – and this is proven by foreign countries,” he added, adding that “the United States and Western countries have issued special funds and the conditions under which history should be taught.”
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