Information war is going on and RT, while never being trustworthy, is extra untrustworthy now. Parties are interested in producing the propaganda to moralize their supporters and demoralize opponents. Ukraine claims the videos were staged.
Here is something humorous from Russian propaganda department. Google translated link from Russian to English.
Notice the comments below and see how much happiness this fake news creates in Ruskies.
Information war is going on and RT, while never being trustworthy, is extra untrustworthy now. Parties are interested in producing the propaganda to moralize their supporters and demoralize opponents. Ukraine claims the videos were staged.
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Aww... Doesn’t it just SUCK when things like this happen?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/16/us-ukraine-crisis-slaviansk-apcs-idUSBREA3F0K420140416
Thanks for pointing out the source. I’ve been defending Crimea’s secession on many threads, but reliable news sources are almost non-existent. So far, the Swedish-controlled, English-language Moscow Times seems the most likely to present varying points of view. RT, the Guardian, and any US source are ridiculously bad.
A better news source, however, has similar information:
Armoured personnel carriers driven into the eastern Ukrainian city of Slaviansk under the control of Ukrainian armed forces are now believed to be in the control of pro-Russian separatists after Ukrainian soldiers surrendered their vehicles.
Amid escalating rhetoric between Moscow and Kiev, the incident highlighted defiance by pro-Russian separatists, undermining central government efforts to push armed rebels out of captured buildings in 10 eastern towns without bloodshed.
Ukrainian troops had driven armoured personnel carriers flying the Ukrainian flag into the town of Kramatorsk after securing control of a nearby airfield from the rebels on Tuesday, prompting Russian President Vladimir Putin to warn of the risk of civil war.
A soldier guarding one of six troop carriers now under the control of pro-Russian separatists told journalists he was a member of Ukraine’s 25th paratrooper division from Dnipropetrovsk.
“All the soldiers and the officers are here. We are all boys who won’t shoot our own people,” said the soldier, whose uniform did not have any identifying markings on it.