Even though the appearance of hundreds of bodies of civilians in the streets of the Ukrainian city of Bucha prompted immediate condemnation by the international community, The Cuban regime has remained silent in the face of alleged war crimeswhich the official press labeled “fake” and which imitated the Kremlin’s speech.
Cuban Head of State Miguel Díaz-Canel, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MINREX) They have not made any statement or comment on the matternot even through its official pages or social network accounts, although that is the case It is one of the most discussed topics in the field of politics at the International.
But it is even more revealing to check whether lThe official Cuban press failed to mention the international complaints about the surfacing of hundreds of bodies in the streets of Buchasince the state-run Cubadebate portal only referred to the matter once, responding to statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who described the complaints as a “false attack”.
The state media believed Lavrov’s statements in which he explained that “a staging took place in Bucha that Ukraine and ‘its western sponsors’ were disseminated through all possible channels and social networks”.
But, The media controlled by the Cuban regime did not refer to the denunciations by the foreign ministries and the governments of most western countries as well as by the Ukrainian authorities.
Only the state-run newspaper Granma has further mention of what happened in Bucha, as part of its live coverage of what the regime has since dubbed “Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine.” the official press is reluctant to use the terms “war” or “invasion” to refer to the conflict.
In this case, the selected headlines were completely biased, as the first of them announced that Russia had requested the convening of a UN Security Council “regarding the criminal provocations of the Ukrainian military and radicals” in the city of Bucha. This perpetuates the discourse that the images of the crimes are a montage to incriminate the Kremlin.
Another allusion by Granma to what Western media has described as a massacre was in response to statements by the Russian Defense Ministry that “crossed out ‘provocation‘ the images showing corpses of civilians in the streets of the Ukrainian city and denounced that it was a “staging” created “for the western media”.
Later, in the same April 4 reporting, Granma quoted an American journalist named Glenn Greenwald as saying: “the pictures of the city of bucha, near Kyiv, could represent one ‘handling‘ posted on social networks.
The other allusion by the state media was to quote the Russian ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, who said: “Shortly after the Russian troops withdrew, the city of Bucha suffered an artillery attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. with the aim of “blaming Russia for its own atrocities”.
Despite widespread coverage of the statements made by Russian officials the Cuban state press never once gave space to the Ukrainian version.
For this reason, among others, the United States Embassy in Havana condemned the Cuban regime this Monday for spreading false information about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Havana did not condemn Moscow for the invasion and saw the “progressive expansion of NATO to the borders of the Eurasian country” as the trigger for the conflict.
And in addition, its official media echoes Russia’s war reports and brands global opposition to the aggression as “Russophobia.”