The war in Ukraine has been going on for more than 2 months. The battles are not only on the ground and in the air, but besides in the information space. fresh false information is emerging on social media. Their aim is to increase public support for 1 of the fighting parties, discredit the another and spread disinformation. An example of specified communicative is accusations of war crimes against civilians by Ukrainian soldiers.
Piotr Panasiuk, erstwhile leader of the Lublin Confederate Club, posted on 26 March 2022. Tweetin which he claims that Polsat News reported on the crimes committed in Mariupol by Ukrainian soldiers on the Russian-speaking civilian population. Sensational content of the entry is intended to make a fragment of the material published in Events available under the tweet. He's talking about the situation in the besieged city.
Manipulation
More about our evaluation system:Lublin activist in the past has already shared pro-Russian content and created posts entering into a communicative forged by the Kremlin. He besides countered the massacre in Buczy and the attack on the Mariupol maternity hospital. Prior to the beginning of Russian aggression, he spread content about Ukraine's planned attack on separatist folk republics and materials to discredit and ridicule the President-in-Office of Ukraine.
Source: twitter.comDid Ukrainian soldiers commit war crimes in Mariupol?
The material utilized to make manipulation was aired in "Events" issue of 25 March 2022 A manipulative video of the tweet spread across the net at an alarming rate. It has been made available respective 1000 times, including English, German and Japanese. The first material begins with the depiction of the destroyed Mariupola from the bird's eye. In the material of Polsat's news service, you can hear the reporter's comment first, and then you can see a recording showing the degree of the demolition in the city. The writer informs viewers that the material recorded utilizing the drone was besides aired by Russian television, and shows the effects of Russian artillery shelling. He besides notes that Russian tv aired images of the destroyed city solely for propaganda purposes to distort the actual course of military action.
Following these words, a fragment of the Russian information programme, which utilized the above-mentioned recording, is shown. The teacher then begins to translate the Russian commentary accompanying the recording, in which the words about the retreating Ukrainian nationalists trying to “not leave stone on stone”. This is where the video that Piotr Panasiuk made available on his profile begins. Thanks to this, the recipient is convinced that he is watching Polsat's first material with a journalistic comment, in which information about crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists falls.
Source: Sky NewsIn the next part of the first "Events", besides included in the manipulated video, information about the tragedy of the civilian population and the forced transport of Mariupola residents to Russia is given. This passage is accompanied by words taken to Russia by a besieged city resident, who in front of the camera attest that Ukrainian nationalists attempted to execution Russians surviving in the city. This passage is intended to make the sensational content of the post of the Confederate activist credible. 5 April 2022. Peter Panasiuk made the tweet available with a recording containing the previously missing beginning of the event material. He besides pointed out that it was about a passage containing a study from Mariupola to Russia that he wanted women.
This kind of footage has long been produced on order of Russian peculiar services, as reported Business Insider and Medusa portal. These services served as an example of another recording aired on Russian state tv RIA Nowosti, which shows a young girl who was taken to Russia telling, among others, about the crimes of the Azov regiment. These are the standard treatments of Russian propaganda, observed for years.
Source: Median
Source: twitter.comOther information about war crimes allegedly committed by regimental soldiers Azov are very hard to verify due to the deficiency of another sources than Russian. However, it is worth noting that during the current conflict, soldiers of the regular Ukrainian army most likely actually committed war crimes on Russian prisoners of war, as confirmed by respective drastic videos on social media. These cases are being investigated. However, there is no evidence of Ukrainian war crimes on civilians in Mariupol.
In the past, the Azov Regiment sometimes did not treat both its opponents and civilians in accordance with global conventions. 2 reports from the United Nations advanced Commissioner for Human Rights (first describe the period from 16 November 2015 to 15 February 2016; second and from 16 February 2016 to 15 May that year).
The content of the reports on Ukrainian war crimes committed on the civilian population in Mariupolu, while the prokremlian communicative justifying the start of armed actions by the Russian Federation in Ukraine. There is presently no credible evidence of specified action by the Azov Regiment.
Summary
Polsat News did not study alleged war crimes committed by the Azov Regiment in Mariupolu. After comparing both materials – this 1 on twitter with the first material aired by Polsat News – you can see the key differences. In the video that Piotr Panasiuk made available, the words of writer Polsatu were removed. The video begins erstwhile the talker begins a translation of the Russian commentary, which is de facto duplicated Russian propaganda. This gave the impression that it was the writer of the Polsat news service who reported on the crimes committed by Ukrainian soldiers in Mariupol. This was not the intention of the “Events” of the material and this kind of procedure is simply manipulation.
Source:
"Events" issue of 25 March 2022: https://polsatgo.pl/video/programmes/events/5024979/events-1850/5024980/20220325-events-1850/c886ad0eac93b41286b3ba17e1d907d2
Article of the Business Insider portal of the recording created to order FSB: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-woman-accusing-ukraine-war-crimes-Russian-fake-report-2022-3?IR=T
Article of the Medusa portal about the recording created to order FSB: https://mediza.io/en/feature/2022/03/30/a-refugee-s-video-testimony-about-atrocities-committed-by-the-azov-battalion-made-the-rounds-on-Russian-state-news-it-came-from-the-fsb
