DISINFO: The Times explains how western media deliberately hide the truth on Russia’s main successes in Ukraine
SUMMARY
Western media deliberately hide the truth on Russia’s main successes in Ukraine, British journalist Rod Liddle wrote in an article in The Times. He added that the more successful is Russia, more space is given in those western media to the imaginary atrocities of the military.
RESPONSE
This is a disingenuous distortion of the original op-ed written by British journalist Ron Liddle in The Times, in order to promote several pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about Russian military superiority and about mainstream media as biased against Russia.
Although the article is critical of the coverage of the war in Ukraine in western media, claiming that it is marred by a lot of wishful thinking, he never affirms that these outlets “deliberately hide the truth”. And while Liddle mentions that “alleged Russian atrocities” are frequently displayed in prominent spaces in the media, he doesn’t affirm that those atrocities are “imaginary”. On the contrary, there is massive proofs of Russia’s human rights violations during its unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, including reports by human rights organisations, OSCE and the UN, journalistic and eyewitness testimonies, open source and satellite images, and forensic evidence.
Distorting articles in Western media to make them appear as supporting pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives is a frequent technique of pro-Kremlin outlets. See other examples in our database, such as false claims that Financial Times reported that Ukraine threatened Russia with terrorist attacks, that The New York Times reports that Russia is barely affected by sanctions, that Germany doesn’t trust Zelenskyy according to Der Spiegel, that The National Interest explained why the US should side with Russia in Ukraine; or that Foreign Policy explained why Washington needs a “Russian intervention”.