On 29 May, on the Polish-language channels of Telegram, entries began to appear accusing the Society of the Red Cross of keeping records of children with “healthy organs” in Mariupola. False reports come from Vladimir Taranenko, the head of a Donetian civilian organization called “Peoples Retinue” and are part of the Russian disinformation war.
Examples of Polish fake news entries from Telegram
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More about our evaluation system:Charges officially rejected by the global Committee of the Red Cross
The prosecution organization did not supply any evidence on your reports. Recording with a talker talking about uncovering alleged medical records and biological laboratories do not contain clear photographs of this documentation. MKCK returned on 31 May to the charges made, categorically denying them.
MKCK Response. Source: icrc.orgRussian media ignored this fact. The MKCK message states that the movie shot in their office is full of unfounded accusations. The global Red Cross has never collected specified medical records. The Communication stresses that the claim that the MKKK was active in organ trafficking is clearly false.
Red Cross representatives besides commented on accusations of preparing a chemical attack and creating biological laboratories, calling them ridiculous. Furthermore, members of the Red Cross in Mariupolu left the organization's office on March 15 and do not know what the office have been utilized for since.
Quote from Jason Straziuso's reply, a spokesperson for the global Red Cross.Planned manipulation
Original entry was released on 29 May on the Telegram channel Vladimir Takarenka and contains an additional film. It shows Russian soldiers looking through printed papers in a devastated building. The author of the post besides wrote a description of the material indicating the alleged uncovering of the safe with over a 1000 pages of documentation indicating the criminal activity of the Red Cross Organization. Takarenka informs that only children with healthy organs were given medical descriptions in the documentation. The propagandist adds that the found materials did not contain information about the diseases, which suggests that the workers of the organization were not curious in children's health, but simply conducting tests for healthy organs.
Spanish-speaking branch Russia Today He wrote that these organs might have been suitable for transplant. In addition to accusations of trafficking in human organs, the service besides formulates allegations of cooperation with "biolabs” and engagement in chemical attacks. Russian Investigative Committee reaction to those reports and informed that he would examine the information and make it subject to criminal law.
Original entry from Telegram channel
English-language Twitter postsHistory of human organ trafficking immediately replicated by prokremlian news channels
Despite no presentation of any photos or videos in fact showing the findings of Vladimir Taranenko, the communicative of 29 May was replicated by many procremlovian portals in respective languages. The first of them made available articles little than 2 hours after publication on Telegram. On 31 May she was additionally filmed relationship "war correspondent" for the propaganda tv channel Zvezda, where it was suggested that the Red Cross was active in collecting organs from children.
Articles replicating Russian propagandaPolish propaganda duplicate channels
Telegram accounts, where you could find these entries, are full of propaganda and disinformation about the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. The first Polish-language entries appeared respective days after Vladimir Taranenko's publication and were made available mainly on Telegram.
Other posts pursuing the same propaganda objectives
In June that year, another propaganda material appeared, attacking in a akin way the MKCK. You could have found him. page nwk24.pl, as well as on Twitter, Telegram, Facebook or Russian community portal vk.com. Authors in the material besides make allegations at the MKCK about trafficking in human organs during the war in Ukraine. However, the entry was not very popular in Polish social media.
Article and entries from June pursuing akin objectives.Russian disinformation run after capture and during the siege of Mariupola
During the attack and siege of Mariupola by Russia, the United Nations, along with the MKCK, repeatedly sought the creation of humanitarian corridors from the city. Russia remained deaf to these calls or even violated its resolutions, replacing escape way is shooting at civilianstrying to evacuate.
Lies about the activities of the MKCK, which began to spread Russian propaganda on May 29, were intended, among another things, to justify blocking the escape way for civilians. In the same Russian-speaking propaganda Articles The subject of the militants of the Azov Battalion frequently appeared. They were accused of Satanic, nationalistic practices and of committing atrocities on civilians. This was to explain to readers the reason for Russia's aggression.
In turn, after the attack on the maternity infirmary in Mariupolu, 1 could find claims that ‘Settings“ and "nothing like that happened." It is worth adding that harming children is very common A subject for propaganda, due to the strong emotions they origin in the audience.
Current report from the actions of Russian misinformation in east Europe can be read on our website.
Activities of the global Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The organization was established under the Geneva Convention in 1864 and is an global humanist movement bringing together over 97 million volunteers. World’s Most crucial objective their actions are to defend human life, prevent suffering and guarantee respect for all man regardless of origin, race, religion or view. Since its inception, the organization has been providing assistance to those in request in armed conflicts, natural disasters or accidents. During the war in Ukraine volunteers take care of collection organisation and treatment since the beginning of the conflict.
Attacking global organisations
This is not the first time Russia has tried to discredit global organizations and distract from its own crimes in Ukraine. In constantly appearing fake news, you could late find entries about OSCE. Russian media then spread lies about allegedly confiscated 20 OSCE SMO vehicles by "Ukrainian nationalist formations". On the occasion of the COVID-19 pandemic, you could hit fake news, whose goals were WHO, UN Whether American Food and Drug Agency (FDA).
Summary
The accusations of trafficking in human organs directed at the global Committee of the Red Cross are unfounded. The first recording on which the full communicative line of Russian propaganda was built, does not supply any evidence on charges. No another material was presented to confirm the words of the author of the recording. specified disinformation actions are planned elements of the Russian Information War. They aim to distract the crimes committed by the attacking Russia in Ukraine and in this case effort to justify blocking humanitarian corridors.
Sources
icrc.org https://www.icrc.org/en/document/ukraine-online-video-mariupol-filled-false-claims, https://www.icrc.org/en
Russia Today: https://actualidad-rt.com/actualidad/431321-descubrir-mariupol-documentos-medicos-organos-infantiles, https://www.rt.com/russia/556331-red-cross-office-mariupol/
stopfake.org https://www.stopfake.org/ru/fejk-v-mariupole-krasnyj-krest-soilal-dannye-o-zdorovyh-organah-detej/
