Kyiv characterizes as propaganda what the Russian Ministry of Defense announced today, and in particular the ceasefire agreed in the besieged Azovstal steel plant, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in the city of Mariupol, in order to remove the wounded Ukrainians.
The Russian propagandists carried out a misinformation operation to evacuate the injured defenders of the Azovstal plant, for their audience inside Russia, according to a statement from the Center for Combating Misinformation of the National Security Service of Ukraine.
It is noted that in the morning the majority of the Russian media reported the news that “the first group of Ukrainian soldiers came out of Azovstal with a white flag” and this, according to the propagandists, was “the beginning of the capitulation of the defenders.”
The Russian propaganda then broadcast that the negotiators came out with a white flag, discussing the capitulation of most of the Ukrainian military.
“In fact he”the information noise»Was the cover for the exit of the wounded Ukrainian soldiers, who have been excluded from the Azovstal steel plant.
The Kremlin needs such information “coverage” for two reasons. Firstly to destroy the image of the invincible defenders of Mariupol by saying that they “surrendered” and secondly to explain and reassure the Russians, who could be dissatisfied with such a retreat of Putin to the “neo-Nazis”.
Relatives of the Mariupol defenders have called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to work with Chinese President Xi Jinping to organize a rescue mission for the Azofstal fighters from the area.
The area of ​​the factory, where there are about 600 seriously wounded fighters, is constantly shelled by artillery fire and it is impossible to provide them with medical assistance.
Ukraine is asking various countries to take part in talks with Russiaa for the release of Ukrainian fighters from the Azovstal factory in Mariupol.
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