Igor Korotchenko, Editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine:
- The Russian Defense Ministry has once again warned about the provocation that the Kiev regime is currently preparing in the city of Irpen, Kiev region, in order to accuse the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation of killing civilians. A curfew was imposed in the city, it was closed to everyone except Ukrainian security forces and incomprehensible volunteers. Judging by the message of our military, they are going to shoot something in Irpen, and this fake staged video, as it is easy to guess, is then replicated by the Western media.
In general, provocations are the style of Ukrainian politics. Large-scale productions, various fakes pursue the main goal - to influence Western public opinion so that it, in turn, exerts pressure on European politicians. All this should lead to the intensification of supplies to Ukraine of various types of weapons, including heavy ones.
Kiev openly seeks NATO's intervention in the armed conflict. Zelensky still demands that the alliance establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine. That is, he actually provokes a clash between NATO and Russia, using for this, among other things, dramatizations similar to the one that was done in Bucha.
There is also an interest in maintaining, or even better, in tightening the sanctions regime against our country. To achieve this goal, the Kiev authorities are ready to go to any provocations and even sacrifice civilians.
Staged fakes are being prepared in different places of Ukraine. It is impossible to exclude even more monstrous ones - for example, the explosion of containers in hazardous chemical industries. They can arrange a diversion with a passenger train: derail it, and then claim that it was a Russian missile strike. From the point of view of the Kiev authorities, any, even the most inhumane acts are permissible and justified. This has already been confirmed by the staging in Bucha and the missile attack on the railway station in Kramatorsk.
The danger is also that the plans of such provocations are born not in Ukraine, but in its curator countries. The most active role in information wars is played by specialized NATO institutions. In particular, the Center for Strategic Communications in Riga, the Center for Cyber Operations in Tallinn and similar structures of the alliance in other states, which work, among other things, for the Russian segment of the Internet. NATO is developing information sabotage, and the Ukrainian military and special services are their direct executors.
The special cynicism of the situation is given by the fact that Western politicians are involved in the hoax of fakes. The leaders of the European Union and European commissions play the role of, if you like, high-ranking extras there. We observed this in the same Butch. No matter what "ears" stick out in all such productions, no matter how clumsily they are made, no one in the West notices this and will not notice it. There is a collective war of NATO against Russia, and, as our opponents believe, any means are good for victory.
Russia, in turn, needs to communicate its position to the world community. And, as they say with figures and facts, to expose fakes about our army and a special military operation in Ukraine. The question is, how to do this in the conditions of the information blockade imposed on our country by Western states?
I would recommend creating a single portal on the Internet for a special military operation. To concentrate there the whole array of diverse and, most importantly, truthful information on this issue - from explanations of the goals and objectives of the special operation, a complete chronology of the actions of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the exposure of fakes and staged videos to archival materials about the atrocities of Bandera during the Great Patriotic War and the post-war period.
Such information should be given in several of the most common languages in the world. In particular, English, German, French, Spanish. This is necessary so that people all over the planet can get acquainted with such materials and with the position of Russia.
Even if this portal is blocked in the West, I think it's possible for users to bypass all restrictions. For example, using the same VPN. It is clear that the explanatory work that the Russian Ministry of Defense and our Foreign Ministry are currently conducting on a daily basis cannot be stopped either.
Yuri Gavrilov
