Russia is losing state TV hosts just as fast as it is losing tanks... Russian TV host quits with extraordinary outburst telling Putin to stop the war https://metro.co.uk/2022/04/21/russ...ells-vladimir-putin-to-stop-the-war-16507194/ A Russian state TV presenter has quit after calling for an end to Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine. Alexander Gurevich, 57, described the eight-week invasion as a ‘huge tragedy’ and ‘a repeat of the scenes of the gruesome Second World War’. He revealed his wife’s late mother had Ukrainian roots, and questioned how she would have felt about thousands dying and children sheltering from bombs in subway stations. Following his remarks, past episodes of his popular weekly gameshow Hundred to One, first broadcast 27 years ago, were removed from Rossiya 1’s YouTube channel. Russian law bans naming the Ukraine onslaught an ‘invasion’ and spreading so-called ‘fake news’ about it. Posting on social media, the big-name showman said: ‘This war must be stopped! Stop! ‘For me, it is absolutely impossible to have fun and joke against the background of a huge tragedy, without noticing what is happening. ‘My [late] mother-in-law was born in Odessa and lived in Kharkiv for a long time. ‘How would she listen to today’s information reports about the death of soldiers, about explosions, that civilians in Kyiv and Kharkiv spend the night in the subway, fleeing the war?’ She would have demanded a stop to a repeat of the scenes of the gruesome Second World War, he wrote. The game show host went on to say sorry to anyone offended by the comedic theme of the show. ‘Shell explosions, human casualties, people leaving their homes and fleeing the shelling – I apologise to anyone for whom the hilarity of our programme seems, like me, completely inappropriate these days’, he said. Episodes recently shown were filmed before the Russian president sent troops in February, he said. Reports today said he had resigned from Rossiya 1. It comes after Marina Ovsyannikova, who worked on Channel One, another mouthpiece for the Kremlin regime, bravely broke ranks on-air. She risked jail as she held a sign that read: ‘NO WAR. Stop the war. Don’t believe the propaganda. They are lying to you here.’ (Article includes video and pictures)
Another sad example of Russians deliberately killing civilians and attempting to blame the atrocity on others. This time from outside Ukraine. France says Russian mercenaries staged ‘French atrocity’ in Mali Army says it filmed mercenaries burying bodies to falsely accuse France of leaving behind mass graves https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...er-mercenaries-staged-french-atrocity-in-mali Russian mercenaries buried bodies near a Malian military base to falsely accuse France’s departing forces of leaving behind mass graves, the French military has claimed. The French army said it used a drone to film what appeared to be white soldiers covering bodies with sand near the Gossi base in northern Mali. The video was shown to reporters from Agence France Presse on Thursday after a Twitter account using the name Dia Diarra, who describes himself as a “former soldier” and “Malian patriot”, posted pixelated images of corpses buried in sand and accused France of atrocities. “This is what the French left behind them when they left the base in Gossi … We cannot keep silent!” the account wrote. France’s general staff called the Twitter video an “information attack” and said the profile was “very probably a fake account created by Wagner”, a private Russian mercenary group which arrived in Mali late last year to reinforce local troops’ faltering efforts against Islamist extremists there. France’s army said comparing the photos published on Twitter against images taken by a special sensor allows them to “draw a direct line” between Wagner’s activities and what has been falsely attributed to French soldiers. “This manoeuvre [is] to discredit the [Operation] Barkhane force. It seems coordinated. It is representative of multiple information attacks French soldiers have faced for several months,” it said. France, the US and others have accused Wagner mercenaries of widespread human rights abuses in Mali as Paris winds down its almost decade-long military operation in the west African country. More than 500 Russian fighters are now believed to be in Mali, mounting joint patrols on the porous frontiers and leading military operations against Islamist extremists in the central zone where the UN also operates. Earlier this month, Wagner was accused of leading an attack on the village of Moura in central Mali during which more than 300 men were executed – mostly civilians, according to witnesses, community leaders and human rights organisations. Multiple sources said the dozens of white soldiers who accompanied local forces on the operation were Russian. Mali’s military-dominated government has denied the accusations, saying that only hardened extremists were killed, and said the Russians in the country are military instructors. Advertisement France officially handed control of the Gossi base to the Malian army on Tuesday as part of its withdrawal announced in February. The French general staff warned about information warfare after the pullout from the base, which hosted 300 French soldiers. Anti-French sentiment has grown in west Africa, where French forces have operated since 2013. Social media has emerged as a key battleground across the region. In October 2019, Facebook took down three networks of accounts linked to the Russian businessman who owns the Wagner group. The accounts were actively seeking to influence the domestic politics in eight countries in Africa. In 2020, Facebook targeted a second Russian-led network of professional trolls outsourced to Ghanaian and Nigerian operatives. More recently, pro-Russian Facebook pages in Mali coordinated support for anti-democracy protests and the Wagner group. Mali’s under-equipped army has also often been accused of committing abuses during the conflict and António Guterres, the UN secretary general, recently warned the UN security council that counter-terrorism efforts in the country had “disastrous consequences for the civilian population”. A military spokesperson said Mali’s army was guided by human rights and international law, and called for “restraint against defamatory speculations”. Several French TV and radio networks have been blocked by authorities in Bamako after reporting details of the Moura massacre. On Thursday, Mali’s military rulers said they would comply with a demand from regional body ECOWAS to hold free and fair democratic elections within two years.
Just so it is clear who the actual Nazis are in Ukraine. It is is the brutal Russian invaders and their supporters committed endless war crimes.
Putin's mouthpieces continue to advocate invading the Baltic nations. Just so everyone is aware who the next targets are. Ukraine Update: Russian state TV delusion reaches new heights as they advocate for Baltic invasion https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...-heights-as-they-advocate-for-Baltic-invasion
Ukraine war: How a school survivor became a target of Russian disinformation https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61176372
While Putin's propaganda may have brainwashed the internal audiences in Russia.... nearly everyone in the rest of the world knows the nonsense pushed by Russia is absurd bullshiat. Putin's ‘far-fetched’ propaganda tactics DEBUNKED by Ukrainian analyst A UKRAINIAN expert has told Express.co.uk why Vladimir Putin's "far-fetched" framing of the war is intended "exclusively for internal audiences", having no impact on Europeans or Americans. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1599919/ukraine-putin-russia-propaganda-tactics-war
Let's take a look at the latest Russian deep-fake fail... Pro-Russia Social Media Accounts Spread Obviously Fake Zelensky Cocaine Video Shallow fake video continues years-long smear against Ukrainian president https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...accounts-fake-zelensky-cocaine-video-1342178/