Really? Please provide evidence...something other than just asserting the “Russians lie”. I haven’t seen Russian stories comparable to the rape hoax, the Ghost of Kiev hoax, the Snake Island hoax, the Miss Ukraine hoax, the Bucha hoax, the “no neoNazis in the AFU” lie, the “evacuation” of Mariupol hoax, or the general lying about the wildly successful battlefield performance of the AFU, to name a few. Your sources appear to be promoters of the MSM/neocon narrative. Independent reporting from France, India, Switzerland, and crowdfunded sources have been far more accurate. I will agree that real time war reporting is often inaccurate on all sides, but the “Ukraine narrative” is a psyops operation. If Severodonetsk and the adjacent city fall, it’s probably game, set, and match for the Zelensky government. THE OBAMA/BIDEN governments and NATO are ultimately responsible for destroying Ukraine.
“I haven’t seen Russian stories comparable to the rape hoax”
Happy to help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucified_boy
This one was quite the doozy. The woman who reported this is from Western Ukraine who married one of the Sparta Batallion nazis (one of the irregular nazi forces that fought on the DPR side... you know, the “goodies”).
Galina Pyshnyak’s partner had direct links to Motorola, a senior figure in the Sparta who boasted that he’d personally executed several POWs at Donetsk Airport. (Russia doesn’t argue with this, it just points out that he wasn’t regular army so his war crime doesn’t count.)
But anyway. Here’s her version of the story, as reported by a pro-Russian site.
https://slavyangrad.org/2014/07/13/slavyansk-refugee-remembers-brutal-execution/
If you read the first paragraph in that article, you’ll get a sense of how the major Russian news sources initially treated it as gospel.
The DPR is the only authority in either Russian or Ukrainian controlled areas of Ukraine that has used a 1941 law to reinstate the death penalty for unlawful combatants. It’s also the only one that actually admits that if the right person makes an accusation, not a single shred of evidence is needed for them to decide that someone can be prosecuted for it. Of course, if a regional administration takes an accusation that serious, that seriously, no media outlet in its right mind would ignore the story.
Two different Russian agencies thought the story was so horrific and so far outside what’s allowed in the course of a war that it needed to be prosecutable, so they bent over backwards looking for more witnesses, a confession, or even some signs that a tank had been dragging bodies around the square.
I’ll give Russian media credit where credit is due. Having discovered there literally was NO evidence to support the story, they all quietly dropped it.