Support, tributes, praise and prayers are being widely broadcast for the brave journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested by showing a placard against the war in Ukraine during a television broadcast in Russia. This act of courage in the face of fake news and suppression of the truth in the Russian media is laudable. It is hoped it will inspire others make a stand against the Putin's war and lies. Many like Marina wish to "stop all this madness", to end the war which is denied. The Russian media still refers to the invasion and the war as a "special military operation".
Marina has been fined 30,000 roubles and interrogated for 14 hours. There are concerns for her safety.
Since the war in Ukraine, journalists have resigned from Russian TV channels. Independent channels have been forced to close down.
Through censorship, lies, propaganda, manipulation and intimidation, the Russian people are not being told the truth about the war in Ukraine. The loss of life, especially among the civilian population, is not being accurately reported. The sanctions against Russia, the serious consequences of Putin's invasion, the economic disasters, the isolation of Russia and the global opposition to the Ukrainian war will not be explained by the main stream media in Russia. The people are being deceived by the official state narrative.
According to the official Russian line, Putin never lies but tells ultra super truth. There is no war in Ukraine; it is merely a military operation to help the Ukrainian people who are being harmed by "drug addicts and Nazis", fascists, terrorists and Western subversives. Putin wishes to liberate Ukraine and make Mother Russia great again. He considers it his "holy duty to unite the people of Russia, to collect its people around clear aims and tasks, and remember each day and every minute, that we have one Motherland, one people, and that together we have one common future." This is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" vision for Nazi Germany.
But the truth will come out. In this age of the internet and world wide web, the facts of this Ukrainian war will come to light. Putin's folly will be revealed and the war, special military operation, crimes that he is responsible for. One day history will show how much damage he has done, the suffering he has caused and how mistaken his Ukrainian war turned out to be.
Putin has strengthened NATO, the EU and world democracies against him. His people will suffer much hardship as a result of his brutal regime. The worldwide condemnation is firm and resolute. The anti-war message is proclaimed throughout the world, at the UN, at football matches, outside Russian embassies, at city squares, at schools, colleges, campuses, churches and cathedrals, at parliaments and on the streets of many cities. Russia has lost the moral argument. Under Putin very dark days are ahead.
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