We continue to monitor how the information war between Russia and Ukraine is being waged. Old photos, fictional quotes and even role -playing games are used

We continue to monitor how the information war between Russia and Ukraine is being waged. Old photos, fictional quotes and even role -playing games are used ...

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On June 17, in the Politics program, Alexander Gordon quoted a fragment of a dialogue between the Associated Press, Matt Lee Lee, with the press secretary of the US State Department, Jennifer Psaki. According to Gordon, to the question of a journalist about refugees who arrive in the Russian areas, Psaki seemed to answer: “These are tourists. In the Rostov mountains, excellent healing air. "

The publication Slon.ru managed to contact Matt Lee. He said that there was no such conversation between him and the press secretary of the State Department. “I have never heard her say something like that,” Lee's replica quoted the publication.

Girl

On social networks, photographs of supposedly victims affected by the Ukrainian military continued to walk on social networks. For example, a photograph with the signature “Why did your army kill this girl on 06/19/2014 in Slavyansk?”, Lated in the Antimaydan group in “Odnoklassniki”.

In fact, 10-year-old Diana Sidelnik died last summer in Crimea due to a collapsed balcony in the Yunost sanatorium.

Geography of fascism

Another story with a photograph was noticed by our reader. In May, Olga Kovitidi, a member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Crimea, posted on her Facebook page a photograph of “zigating” young people with the signature “There is no fascism! Responsibility for a punitive operation against his people is borne by the nationalist junta that has seized power in Ukraine. ”

At the same time, the photograph was taken not at all in Kyiv, but on one of the “Russian marches”.

Toy tanks

Sometimes the media choose completely unusual ways to illustrate this or that message. The Ukrainian channel "1+1" showed the plot about Russian tanks in the Donbass. This information was accompanied, in particular, personnel from the video, previously published on the website of the online game World of Tanks. The announcer “1+1” said that these were tanks from the Russian training ground, and under the video there was an inscription “Donechin”.

At the same time, the white logo of the game WOT is noticeable on the tanks themselves. The author of the video Sergei Karapetyan responded to the Ukrainian plot on his Facebook page. “They took a piece of my video about the T-72 tank, inserted into the plot, and, they say, the tanks are attacking Donetsk,” he wrote.

In the video published on the WOT website, Karapetyan says that these are shots from the military-tactical game “Zarya”, which was held in early May in the village of Alabino, Moscow Region.

Putinsk

In early June, several Ukrainian media published news that Slavyansk will now be called Putinsk. This was allegedly announced at the press conference by the self-proclaimed mayor of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev.

This news was launched by the UreView site-an online publication that publishes fake news. Ponomarev was posted on his Facebook page by the host of the 1+1 channel Solomiya Vititskaya, with the signature “Instead of Slavyansk, the city is now called Putinsk. This was at a press conference was told to reporters by the self-proclaimed mayor of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev. "

The same “news” was published by the publication of the press of Ukraine, repeating after Ureview that several more settlements would change their names: Donetsk will be called Putino, Lugansk - Putinrad, and Gorlovka - Vladimirovladimirovka.