PUL New through Reuters Sergei Lavrov, February 21, 2022 in Moscow.
WAR IN UKRAINE – “Russia is not under attack, it is the aggressor,” Emmanuel Macron began this Wednesday, March 2, during a televised speech on the war in Ukraine. But for Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the truth is elsewhere.
During an online conference on Thursday, Russia’s foreign minister accused Western countries of thinking about nuclear war – while Vladimir Putin said he was “putting Russian military deterrents on a special standby basis on February 27” – and criticized France’s view of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, especially in the Donbass region.
“President Macron has spoken out and says Zelensky should not be blamed [le président ukrainien]”Sergei Lavrov said before quoting, without quoting, the journalist Anne-Lor Bonel. “French journalist […] who visited Donbass published her observations on the shelling of schools, the killings of two women working in those schools, and called on Westerners to face the truth, he said. She was not allowed to publish.
On Tuesday, however, Anne-Laure Bonell made a remarkable intervention, accompanied by images of violence, on the set of Pascal Praud on CNews. As Stop on images explains, this sequence was widespread on social networks, many accounts broadcast with “the truths that are hidden from us.”
“I do not defend Putin”
“Look at this teacher, do you see her there, cut in half?” These are the Ukrainian forces, “said the journalist, who traveled to Donbass in 2015 to cover the conflict between the Ukrainian regime on the one hand and the pro-Russian and Moscow pro-separatists on the other.
The conflict situation in this region in the eastern part of Ukraine has continued since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea by Russia. Before the fighting in February, he left more than 14,000 killed, 25,000 wounded and 1.5 million displaced, according to the United Nations. From his experience in this field, Anne-Lone Bonell drew the documentary Donbass.
In a video conference from Donbass, the journalist claimed that “there is no political message”, after which he stated that “we have been talking about this conflict for a week, but it has been going on for 8 years”. “I am not defending Putin,” said Anne-Lor Bonell, telling herself “as close to civilians as possible.”
“Sincerely but dramatically naive”
For Benoit Vitkin, a correspondent in Moscow for the Le Monde newspaper, the journalist explained in his intervention that this conflict was not hidden or hidden from the Western population. “Obviously there has been a war in Donbass for 8 years, it is quite well documented,” he began in a Twitter post. “Those who discover it only today can only blame themselves. In fact, whether in Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro or even Arte, several reports and investigations have been carried out on the armed conflict in Donbass, where the population has been caught in a vicious situation since 2014.
Um, of course, just because Pascal Proud doesn’t know something doesn’t mean he’s a spoon.
Apparently there has been a war in Donbass for 8 years, it is quite well documented. Those who discover it only today can only blame themselves.1 / https://t.co/RLfK0kZW5Z
– Benoit Vitkin (@benvtk) March 2, 2022
“From [2014], there are bombings on both sides, says Benoit Vitkin. Citizens suffer and die on both sides. Probably a little more separatist, more urbanized. ” Without questioning Anne-Lor Bonel’s remarks about the existence of a conflict that led to his death, he said he had a “problem with AL Bonel” who was said to have treated the conflict in a biased and biased manner. Donbass.
For the 2019 Albert London Prize, the 2017 Donbass documentary is “undoubtedly sincere but dramatically naive.” He recalls Anne-Lorne Bonell, “carried into separatist territories by … officials from those same territories […] which we heard in the film ask questions to witnesses, not the journalist. “
In addition, the testimonies of “a beheaded pregnant woman, pensioners with severed ears, mass executions …” have been “dismantled several times”, he explains, describing “fables invented by Russian television and which AL Bonnel guides magically put under his nose” .
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