At the same time an international committee of fact-checkers issued a comprehensive listing of other misinformation on https://ukrainefacts.org/ which included information provided by the daily journal Haaretz. This concerned the use of photographs taken during the Israeli oppression of Palestinian people which had been altered to appear as if taken in the Ukraine.
Particularly disconcerting are the Hollywood style war sets where actors are to be seen being made up to appear with blood and open wounds before performing heroic actions in disused warehouses which have been made to appear as hospitals, clinics and nurseries. In one instance, a model known for her role in advertisements for maternity wear is portrayed as a stretcher-borne victim of shelling.
Most of this manipulation is attributed to Ukranian sources and then released via the social media . Probably the propaganda unit of the dreaded neo-Nazi AZOV special operations detachment of the National Guard of the Ukraine is responsible for some of the grimmer stuff and has made use of material shot in 2014 when its regiment recaptured Mariupol from the pro-Russian separatist movement. This action included the killing and torture of civilians which is still being investigated by the UN war crimes commission. In 2018 the US blocked all further financial and military aid to AZOV and other fascist elements of the Ukraine but has now resumed its support. The Russians are equally skilful through their intelligence agencies in subscribing to the war of lies even though its electronic distribution has been limited by imposed sanctions.
The political forces on both sides are immensely influenced by oligarchs and other opportunists who are concerned with a long term strategy of accumulating more wealth and consequent power. They have no pity or thought for the sufferings of ordinary people who now flee from or courageously resist an insanity. All wars are obscene affronts to civilised cultures but what is ominous in this new style 21st century conflict is its prescience of an apocalypse. Hearts may no longer beat and minds no longer think if the elitist New World Order is enabled by default to impose its desired destiny upon us.
Roberto Cavaleiro, By email
Well said.
People need to question why the MSM do and say things since they are manipulated by higher authority for their own selfish reasons, Covid was the best example and now we have another.
People need to wake up and see through the lies that are spread. The NWO is very dangerous to ordinary people.
By JG from Algarve on 18 Mar 2022, 05:17
Shocking to read the Kremlin propaganda machine has even reached letters to this publication.
Shame on you and your war criminal boss Putin
By James from Algarve on 18 Mar 2022, 07:37
Shame on you for publishing blatant Kremlin propaganda.
That is a media low point.
By Joe Nelson from Algarve on 18 Mar 2022, 10:35
There is being propaganda spewed on both sides. James, Joe and many others would benefit from doing their own research instead of blindly trusting whatever they’re being told by the news. Research the examples of fake propaganda given in this letter and tell me which one is untrue. I dare you. This blind faith that people have in people of (perceived) authority is going to lead us all down a very dangerous path, in fact, it already has. Wake up!
By niko from Lisbon on 18 Mar 2022, 15:58
Well said.
By DK from Lisbon on 18 Mar 2022, 22:21
I see this horrible war as causing suffering and deaths for people in the Ukraine and in Russia, people who didn't start the war, and people who don't want a war, people who just want to get on with their lives, just like you and I. So I don't stand with the people of the Ukraine or the people of Russia, I stand with the people of both countries, and all victims of war worldwide!
By Steve Andrews from Other on 19 Mar 2022, 10:12
Isn't it interesting these Russian apologists appearing?
I guess we shouldn't be surprised, after all Portugal offered citizenship to one of Putin's allies.
Shame on you and your support of another barbaric dictator.
By James from Algarve on 19 Mar 2022, 14:10