NP - The view from Moscow is grim

[David Morris]

https://jabberwocking.com/the-view-from-moscow-is-a-grim-one/

Are you wondering how the Ukraine crisis is playing out in Russian media? LA
Times staff writer Nabih Bulos reports from Kyiv:
<https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-02-17/russia-ukraine-disinformation-campaign>

To hear Russian media tell it, *the government of Ukraine is run by
neo-Nazis waging a genocidal campaign against ethnic Russians in the
country’s east, *where Moscow-backed authorities regularly uncover mass
graves full of the corpses of women and children with bound hands and
bludgeoned heads even as they face the hell of constant shelling.

*Such false images and narratives have become a daily staple in Russia*....The
Russian media have gone into overdrive with stories depicting a government
in Kyiv so cruel that Moscow has no choice but to swoop in and protect the
ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region.

“It’s a war between the Ukrainian government and its own people.... People
are dying there every day. Thousands of civilians died there. *Thousands of
children lost their limbs there, buried in little coffins,*” Margarita
Simonyan, head of the state-funded broadcaster RT, said on a talk show on
the Russia-1 channel.

I think living in Russia is what it would be like in the US if every
channel were Fox News and every newspaper were the New York Post.