Russian diplomats circulated a document at the United Nations claiming Ukraine is engaged in “exterminating the civilian population” in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. “What is happening in the Donbas today is genocide,” Putin said last week. He has also made comparisons to the massacre at Srebrenica in Bosnia. Putin has used the word on several occasions. At the time the situation across the line of control between the Ukrainian military and separatists positions was calm.Ī large part of Russian efforts to lay the groundwork for a Kosovo-style intervention in east Ukraine is to claim that the Ukrainian efforts to regain control of the territories in 2014 amounted to “genocide”. Bellingcat, however, discovered from the video’s metadata on the channel Telegram that it had actually been filmed two days earlier – last Wednesday. Pushilin’s evacuation order was released on 18 February. The same day the territory’s pro-Moscow leader, Denis Pushilin, released a video saying the situation had become so grave civilians had to be bussed out to safety and Russia. The information has ranged from reports on increased bombardment to more outlandish “provocations” such as an attempted car bombing on Friday outside the separatist administration building in Donetsk.
It has claimed residents have come under heavy Ukrainian shelling – something Kyiv says is not true. As part of this strategy Russian TV has begun actively promoting information which suggests a vast humanitarian crisis is unfolding in eastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin’s media goal is to create a pretext for invasion, Higgins suggested. They include claims Ukraine is planning to attack separatist enclaves, and that it on Monday smuggled armoured vehicles and saboteurs across the border – supposedly recorded by helmet cam. Over the past week Russia has churned out numerous false stories from what Ukraine’s foreign ministry Dmytro Kuleba called a “fake producing factory”. This was especially true of the older generation, he said. But he said domestic Russian viewers tended to believe fake TV footage, which was “theatrically” created for state propaganda purposes. Higgins said international audiences were mostly impervious to Kremlin disinformation.
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