Posted on 02/16/2022 9:02:06 AM PST by Mount Athos
Some U.S. media outlets have been spreading “blatant fake news” about the threat of a further Russian invasion of Ukraine, Chairman of Ukraine’s Servant of the People parliamentary faction David Arakhamia said during the Pravo Na Vladu (“Right to Power”) show on the 1+1 TV Channel on Feb. 14.
He compared role of U.S. media outlets with Russian propagandists, though the MP added that he thinks “the panic phase (of the crisis) will disappear” in a few weeks.
“I think when the phase disappears in two or three weeks, we should do a retrospective analysis of how large, very well-known media outlets began to spread information worse than (Russian propagandists) (Olga) Skabeeva and (Vladimir) Solovyov,” Arakhamia said.
“Blatant fake news in CNN, Bloomberg, WSJ… We must study this, since these are elements of a hybrid war.”
He said “attempts are being made now to make a new collective security treaty,” and Ukraine is only a platform for negotiations.
Arakhamia also said that the publication of information about the threat of invasion by the Russian army “costs the country $2-3 billion every month.”
“We can’t borrow in foreign markets because the rates are crazy there,” he continued.
“Many exporters are idle. We count the economic losses every day and then submit this information to our partners through the Foreign Ministry, since they have to understand this.”
“When someone decides to relocate the embassy to (the western city of) Lviv, they must understand that such news will cost the Ukrainian economy several hundred million dollars,” Arakhamia added, referring to recent decisions made by a few foreign governments to move their consulate services away from Kyiv.
The Ukrainian hryvnia has been one such cost of late, with the National Bank of Ukraine pointing to recent drops in the Ukrainian national currency’s price, compared to the dollar, as due solely to “geopolitical risk,” and has been selling foreign reserves to meet demand for currency.
Media hype or an imminent threat?
Russia has deployed about 140,000 troops and equipment on the border with Ukraine.
It has officially denied its intention to carry out a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, while continuing to arm and command its proxy groups in non-government controlled regions of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.
On Feb. 11, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. government “continues to see very troubling signs of Russian escalation, including new forces arriving at the Ukrainian border.”
U.S. political media outlet Politico also reported on Feb. 11 that U.S. President Joe Biden told Western leaders that Russia would start a physical assault on Ukraine as soon as Feb. 16.
Meanwhile, the U.S.-based Bloomberg news agency reported that a fresh Russian aggression against Ukraine could begin on Feb. 15.
Russia in turn accused foreign media of a “large-scale disinformation campaign.”
Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has again said that the Ukrainian government has “everything under control.” He also announced Feb. 16, 2022 as Unity Day.
According to NSDC Secretary Danilov, Ukraine’s leadership sees no signs of Russia preparing for a full-scale offensive on Feb. 16.
The whole thing could have been a setup to try to get Biden’s poll numbers up.
Biden stares down Putin by doing almost nothing.
It could be another clumsy attempt by the democrat/msm to manufacture an imaginary invasion, and then credit biden with staring down putin.
That looks suspiciously plagiaristic.
“Some U.S. media outlets have been spreading “blatant fake news”
Get out!!! ...can’t believe it. /s
Why are they beating around the bush? Just come right and say it was the evil, corrupt Biden regime that was spreading the fake news.
Don’t understand why they are being so diplomatic with that diaper wearing a$$hole. The scum bag Biden and ALL his troglodyte enablers are going to pay the price come November 8th. The bastards are going to pay dearly.
Also one could say its good strategic thinking by Putin in propping Xiden up. It keeps the US weak and unlikely to effectively interfere.
Ukrainians are starting to realize the US deep state lizards are playing them.
The neocons goal is not the welfare of Ukraine, but rather, to use Ukraine as a PR wedge to control Germany and France, Keep Russian energy from flowing directly to Germany and Europe - and a strategic tool to have a weak, poor and unstable sore permanently festering on Russia’s border.
One of the ministers today asked Brandon for the dates of the Russian invasion so they could plan their vacations around it!
However the press plays this up here, making Brandon the current day Kennedy, the world knows he has been played and made to look like the fool he is. Worse is how it makes the US look. More importantly it has demonstrated the weakness in NATO and how little foreign reach politically we now have. The guy has become like Cagney “top of the world” scene: a wild man screaming he is on top as his world blows up around him. Sad.
I was wondering why Russia would go through the expense of all those exercises if it was just to help Biden.
Something about pipelines.
It’s Wednesday, where’s the invasion?
My guess is that Biden was sending a message to Ukraine not to mess with or expose Hunter’s dealings in their country.
Fake news —> MSM — its what they do
I think I read somewhere that the ecercises were either already scheduled or close to that date. Anyway good tactic to kick off an invasion or not from a exercise. Keeps’em gussing !
Don’t discount China and the close of the Nolimpics.
It’s all about The Benjamins.
“ Some U.S. media outlets have been spreading “blatant fake news””
That’s about the only media we have anymore - libtard propagandists 🤪
So, Vladimir, what are you waiting for?
Waiting for Godot.
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