In Ukraine, fighting continues. In the meantime, the information war continues on the network, in which media and social networks are accidentally or intentionally or intentionally or intentioned. And we have collected another selection with some of the most popular fakes.
Photo of a bloodied child from Kharkov
On March 5, the famous Ukrainian journalist Dmitry Gordon shared a selection of photographs from Kharkov under fire. Particular attention of readers attracted a frame with a bloody child sitting in a hospital bed.
Is it true: This photograph is quite real, but it was not taken in 2022 and not in Ukraine. The author is original picture - Mohammed Badra, who on January 3, 2018 captured the consequences of the bombardment of the town of MiSrab, the suburbs of Damascus. This action, held by the Aviation controlled by the Syrian government, claimed at least two dozen human lives. Transfer the place and time of the photograph to Ukraine tried Back in February, after the beginning of the hostilities, and the post of Alena Mozgova on Facebook, which Gordon referred, was now removed. March 9 and Gordon himself deleted his publication.
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The UN forbade its employees to call Ukrainian events a war or invasion
March 8 Media around the world Reported The fact that the UN officers were banned from using the words “war” and “invasion” in relation to hostilities in Ukraine, as well as posting Ukrainian flags in personal and working accounts in social networks in order to avoid “reputation risks”. A letter with the corresponding instructions was allegedly sent to the UN employees by e -mail earlier. The news caused a great resonance, as well as the reaction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba, who He called The UN make a refutation if this news is false.
Is it true: The primary source of the information was the Irish edition The Irish Times, and in the media hit Even the alleged screenshots of this letter:
Soon I followed reaction The official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Dyuzharrik, who stated that this is "not the case when the employees would be instructed not to use such words as" war "and" invasion "to describe the situation." As an example, he cited the at the same time, on March 8, Twites, Deputy Secretary General of the UN Rosemary Dicarlo, containing the words “this war is meaningless”:
At the same time, Duzharrick admitted that the employees “are asked to issue any messages in Ukraine, as well as on other political issues in such a way that this corresponds to the position of the organization and the statements of the Secretary General,” but refused to call this instructions. Moreover, we managed to get a screenshot of the instructions mentioned by Duzharrik with a request - it was sent on March 4 and does not contain any specifics about the words “war” or “invasion”:
Thus, the common information turned out to be false at least in the context of the requirements for employees.
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Ukraine urgently eliminated traces of the American military-biological program
On March 6, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense General Igor Konashenkov reportedthat Moscow received documents from employees of Ukrainian laboratories confirming the development of biological weapons components in this country. More precisely, evidence of the "emergency stripping" of traces of the military-biological program implemented in Ukraine, the US Ministry of Defense, the US Ministry of Defense. Photos of the instructions of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on the destruction of “especially dangerous pathogens of the pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera and other deadly diseases” were attached to the message, as well as the acts of destruction in Poltava and Kharkov biolaborators:
The next day Russian media distributed The statement of the former US Army officer and the expert in combating terrorism Scott Bennett. He not only confirmed the information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, but also added that in American laboratories in Ukraine "the Slavs DNA were studied to create biological weapons against them."
Is it true: March 7 Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Refuted The information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, noting that the Ukrainian Ministry of Health denies information about the “emergency stripping of traces of the military-biological program financed at the US Ministry of Defense” and the “destruction of especially dangerous pathogens”. According to the Foreign Ministry, there are no American laboratories on the territory of Ukraine: “All laboratory capabilities in Ukraine perform a single general function-indication and identification of pathogens of infectious diseases that have significant epidemic potential and / or international significance and regulation in accordance with international medical and sanitary rules.”
However, I would like to get an independent expert comment on the current situation. In this “verified”, the candidate of biological sciences Evgeny Levitin, who had previously published the corresponding statement On behalf of the group of Russian biologists. Here are its main theses.
1. In the list of destroyed strains published by RIA Novosti and other Russian media, there is not a single one related to especially dangerous. The list contains only strains conventional for microbiological and especially epidemiological laboratories, but there are no strains of “plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera” there. Indeed, the list mentioned: strains diphtheria, Corinobacteria (part of the normal microflora of the upper respiratory tract and human skin), bacterium Bacillus licheniformis (found on bird feathers and used in the production of enzymes), thermophilic bacterium GEOBACILUS STAROMOPHILUS, Staphylococcus golden, Klebsiella pneumonia, and also Sinegnaya And Escherichia sticks. These are fairly common bacteria in everyday life, behind the walls of laboratories. Most of them are constantly in contact with a person.
2. Even the presence of plague strains, anthrax, tularemia or cholera in a laboratory engaged in particularly dangerous infections would also not indicate the development of biological weapons. This would also be normal for the epidemiological institute in the presence of the appropriate level of protection and documented certification of the laboratory.
3. The document is instructions on the treatment of hazardous and potentially dangerous microorganisms if it is necessary to dispose of their disposal. Such is in any microbiological and epidemiological laboratory. As indicated in the document, the order to eliminate pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic crops was sent to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 to most epidemiological and microbiological laboratories of Ukraine in order to prevent their possible environment in possible critical situations accompanying military operations.
4. “The DNA of the Slavs, against which special biological weapons should have been applied” is an absurd thesis for everyone who is familiar with the school biology course.
Thus, according to Levitin’s opinion backed by the facts, the materials attached to the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation do not in any way talk about the development of biological weapons in Ukrainian laboratories. As for the performance of Scott Bennett, it is simply anti -rent. It should be noted that this "expert" earned Bad fame among specialists in Russian media, because, judging by data of a journalistic investigation, with a high probability, is a fraudster. The above statement of a group of Russian scientists was reflected in petitions With a request to stop the spread of lies about Ukrainian biological weapons. The petition was presented by a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, one of the most authoritative and cited biologists in the world Evgeny Kunin.
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Vladimir Zelensky stated: “You won’t leave fascism anywhere, guys! This is our cross "
On March 5, in the Telegram channel "Russia 24/7" appeared VideoIn which one could see the procession with the portrait of Stepan Bandera, the flags of Ukraine and the Azov battalion, the consequences of shelling on the territory of the DPR, as well as the replica of Vladimir Zelensky: “And you will not leave fascism, guys. Although he is not from Ukraine, this is our cross. ” The same replica in a slightly distorted form fell into the title of the video. As an answer to all this, Vladimir Putin’s decision was filed to bring troops into Ukraine.
Is it true: We will not focus on the selection of personnel taken from different places at different times and do not always form a causal relationship. Let's take a quote from Vladimir Zelensky in more detail, which sounded in interview The already mentioned journalist Dmitry Gordon. In December 2018, Zelensky (at that time is not even an official candidate for the presidency), answering a question about decommunization in Ukraine, declared: “In general, well, here we were taking all the Lenins, right? One had to be left. It is enough to call the best masters, the benefit of them in Ukraine, to make an awesome sculpture from this monument, around - prickly wire as a reminder of tyranny: we must go by and remember this. They say to me: "Yes, we want to erase everything-all-all that we had!" I answer: “A second. When we remind the Germans that they had fascism and Hitler, they admit this:“ Yes. ”They don’t say:“ We don’t know this, then there was another Germany at all, and in general, it all began in Austria ... ”They don’t wave it away: they say, we are now new, united Germany, and we don’t have this! This is your cross.
Thus, the statement of Vladimir Zelensky was distorted beyond recognition by ordinary installation - his thought was completely different. Separately, we note that the quote of Petro Poroshenko about “their children”, who “will sit in the basements”, also included in the video, also Teared out of context.
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