For the third day, Russian propaganda resources continue hysteria about the missile attack of the Ukrainian armed forces on military facilities in the Sevastopol area on June 23, 2024. Kremlin resources and officials call it a “terrorist attack” – according to their statements, 5 people died and 144 were injured. In order to spread the “scandalous” news at the international level, representatives of the so-called Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and other diplomats got involved. About how they manipulate and openly spread falsehood further in the material.
It should be noted that from the beginning of the incident, the Russian propaganda machine failed to agree on versions of events. Initially, Kremlin resources “told” that their air defense had shot down all 5 missiles that were flying at military facilities. But then the Ministry of Defense of Russia announced that 4 missiles had been shot down. But it was the heel that fell / broke on the beach near the small village of Uch-kui and its debris caused the tragedy. http://surl.li/hyxnto
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It was after the “coordination” of this version, which in fact removed the responsibility for the death of people from the Russian aggressors and transferred it to Ukraine, that the Russian Foreign Ministry also got involved. This is what the Press Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sakharova and Deputy Ambassador of the Russian Federation and the UN Nebenzia said:
Zakharova. Message 1.
“In connection with the terrorist attack of the Kyiv regime against the civilians of Sevastopol, the UN Secretariat literally stated the following: “As always, we strive to put an end to the war in accordance with the UN Charter and the resolutions of the General Assembly.”
This is more like a recognition of one’s own needlessness than a comment on the tragedy. In principle, you can say once “we are for all the good against all the bad” and ask to use this universal quote for every occasion.
And it would be fine if the UN Secretariat performed its technical functions without getting involved in politics. On the contrary! For many years now, the total politicization of all statements and actions in the Ukrainian direction has been going on in the direction of the West and exclusively in an anti-Russian way.
Since you have already started playing on the political field, please look at the people killed by the Kyiv regime with American weapons on the beach and condemn the act of terrorism…”
Zakharova. Message 2: The US Ambassador to Moscow, L. Tracy, will be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia
During a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia on June 24 with the summoned head of the US diplomatic mission in Russia, L. Tracy, a demarche was made in connection with the new bloody crime of the Kiev regime, sponsored and armed by Washington, which launched a targeted missile attack on the civilian population, accompanied by numerous victims, including children Sevastopol.
It is emphasized that the USA, which is waging a hybrid war against Russia, has actually become a party to the conflict, supplying the Armed Forces with the most modern weapons, including the ATACMS missiles with cluster warheads used against the residents of Sevastopol, whose targeting and flight tasks are carried out by American military specialists, bear equal responsibility for this crime with the Kyiv regime.
The ambassador was told that Washington’s similar actions, aimed at encouraging the pro-Nazi authorities of Ukraine to continue hostilities until the “last Ukrainian”, gave permission for strikes deep into Russian territory, which would not go unpunished.
Nebenzia Message 1.
“The fact that the USA is directly involved in this crime [missile attack on Sevastopol with the help of ATACMS] does not cause any doubts. Washington and its allies support the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev and encourage their puppets to commit terrorist acts against civilians in Kiev. Recently, NATO countries gave the Kiev regime the green light to strike deep into Russian territory. We are not surprised that the Western mass media are silent about this tragedy. They are not interested in the lives of Russian civilians. The absence of any significant response from the UN Secretariat, which should have confronted such obvious crimes and violations of international law, is even more regrettable.”
First, for the second year of the war, Russian propaganda has been trying to make Western countries, and in particular the United States, a party to the conflict. For this, they use a verbal invented verbal formula – “the supply of US weapons to the Kyiv regime actually makes the United States a party to the conflict.” However, this is a blatant manipulation. There are no such provisions in international law that would state the supply of weapons as direct participation in the conflict. In addition, modern history also works against the propagandists’ message.
So, for example, during numerous Arab-Israeli wars, the USA and a number of Western countries supplied weapons to Israel, and the USSR to Syria, Egypt, and Jordan. However, at that time none of the countries called each other a “party to the conflict”.
Secondly, the statement that “target detection and flight mission input is carried out by American military specialists” is an outright lie. The representative of the Pentagon, Major Charlie Dietz, said that Ukraine “makes its own decisions regarding the selection of targets and conducts its own military operations.” http://surl.li/qrfbhb
Thirdly, in such statements about a “terrorist act” and the wreckage of the rocket, Russian propaganda contradicts itself. It was the Kremlin propagandists who invented the “formula” in order to absolve themselves of responsibility – after every barbaric attack on residential buildings or other civilian objects in Ukraine, Moscow’s information sycophants blamed the victims on the Ukrainian side – they say that it was the fragments of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile that destroyed a house in the Dnipro , it is the Ukrainian air defense missiles that are responsible for the fact that they shoot down Russian cruise and ballistic missiles and they go off course and fall on civilian houses. In order not to shoot them down, they would fly where they need to go… However, as we see, when Russia finds itself in such a situation, the formula no longer works.
Fourth, according to the UN report, as of April 2024, 10,582 civilians were killed in Ukraine and 19,875 were injured. http://surl.li/xntvht
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, as of April 11, more than 1,831 children were injured in Ukraine as a result of the full-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation, and 542 of them died. http://surl.li/ewvqkg
