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Washington, March 26 – Sonja Van den Ende, an independent journalist from the Netherlands, has denied on the ground the untruth of today’s Western media campaign about the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine.
In a detailed report on the Ukrainian field, the communicator observed the large-scale manipulation and lies about the Russian troops in a report published by Covert Action magazine.
Based on her experience, the witness pointed out that the Russians were received as liberators in the southern Ukrainian city of Henichesk on the Sea of Azov and were therefore visited in several places.
The communicator’s report echoes that of Patrick Lancaster, a US Navy veteran who speaks Russian and whose coverage of the war in Donbass has been respected by investigative journalists for eight years.
Last week I was drafted into the Russian army and visited two cities in south-eastern Ukraine. The first city was called Henichesk, a port city on the Sea of Azov in Kherson Oblast (province) in southern Ukraine on the border with Crimea, he said.
The Russian army patrolling the city accompanied us – the embedded journalists – to protect us. But in reality the protection was not necessary; The people of Henichesk, at least most I spoke to, are very happy that the Russian army is there, he said.
All the people I spoke to said the same thing: they felt protected from the criminal gangs with their Nazi ideology that were ravaging the cities. In return, they expect Ukraine to prosper again, he explained.
Since the 2014 coup, Ukraine’s economy has performed very poorly, many citizens of Henichesk say. Food was scarce in the market. The Russian army is providing humanitarian aid in all cities liberated from these criminal gangs. That’s what many Ukrainians call them, he noted.
Many residents of Henichesk told me that the Russians left everything untouched when they entered their village. I’ve heard that many times. No damage, no dead, no injured. Most people, they said, were glad the Russians were there.
Reality versus fiction
Western propaganda claims that the Russian army is besieging cities and that the population is starving. According to my observations, said Van den Ende, the latter applies neither to Henichesk nor to the next town, Melitopol, which I also visited.
Western countries have no interest in their (Ukrainian) economy and population because Ukrainians have many similarities with their “brother” countries – Russia and Belarus – and would naturally join them. They share the same culture, language and history of the Nazi invasion of World War II.
The reporter pointed out that the West is only interested in the benefits for its own economies and that for them, she stressed, the Ukrainian people are a pawn in a larger geopolitical game that will cause a potential catastrophe for all of humanity.
(Latin press)