London. Russian propaganda does not want to admit that the Moscow bombs tragically hit a children’s hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine. And so, the embassy of the Russia a London he published some messages on Twitter even branding the photos of the disaster caused by the Russian raids in the last few hours as “fake”. Tweets that were later removed from the social network as against the guidelines.
Messages of hate and harassment, with one goal: the young Ukrainian Marianna Podgurskaya, local artist and blogger. According to Russian propaganda, she would be the protagonist of the photos following the attack on the hospital, in which three people died, including a child. “Fake! Fake! Shame!”. Within minutes, Podgurskaya came under fire from her Instagram profile, attacked by hundreds of Russians, users and trolls, who accused her of faking her injury.
But the propaganda of the Russian Embassy in the UK has three major problems. The first: there is no certainty that the girl injured in the Mariupol hospital raids is Marianna Podgurskaya, nor has it been confirmed. Second: even if the young woman was the blogger, the embassy and her followers have all posted photos of her half-length or that do not show her pregnant. But Podgurskaya is really expecting a baby, as her Instagram selfies show.
Third: Russia, again through the account of the London diplomatic office, claims that the pediatric hospital had been previously “occupied by the” Azov battalion, a neo-Nazi militia from Kiev “, an accusation never substantiated by facts,” and that therefore the woman could not be there. “And to those who accused the embassy that the images of the disaster are true, Russian diplomacy defined the photographer of the famous and respected news agency Associated Press, Евгений Малолекта“A famous propagandist” against Moscow.
Tweets from the Russian Embassy inflamed online criticism, as did the foreign minister’s words Sergei Lavrov, who denied the Moscow offensive in Ukraine, amidst amazement and general indignation. Downing Street called the embassy’s infamous tweets part of “Moscow disinformation”. Finally, their removal in the late afternoon by Twitter.
“Who knows why the embassy does not show pictures of pregnant Podgurskaya,” she tweeted Elliot Higginsthe young Englishman at the head of the investigation site Bellingcatwhich in the past has proven to be the poisoning of the former double agent spy Sergey Skripal in Salisbury, England, had been ordered and executed by the Gru, the Russian military intelligence that reports directly to the president Vladimir Putin.