When Rastus Johnson cake-walks thru Berlin
Posted on 05/07/2022 9:37:01 AM PDT by Kazan
Germany’s Der Spiegel removes clip in which Azovstal evacuee criticized Ukraine.
Citing “discrepancies in content,” the German magazine Der Spiegel has removed a video showing the testimony of an evacuee from Mariupol’s ‘Azovstal’ factory, a stronghold of the neo-Nazi Azov militants and other Ukrainian fighters.
The woman in the video had revealed that her family were basically being lied to, held hostage, and used as human shields by the Ukrainian militants.
Another German outlet, Junge Welt, noticed the deletion on Thursday evening. According to JW, Der Spiegel published the three-minute video on Monday. It featured Natalia Usmanova, who had worked at Azovstal before the conflict and sheltered there with her husband and children.
In the recording, Usmanova tells reporters that Azov militants “kept us in the bunker” for two months and did not allow her family to leave using the humanitarian corridors established by Russian troops.
“They hid behind the fact that they are supposedly concerned about our safety,” Usmanova said, according to a German translation, adding that her family was repeatedly yelled at to “Go back to the bunker!”
“Ukraine has died for me as a state,” Usmanova said at the end of her testimony.
Der Spiegel said it had obtained the video from Reuters, and that it was temporarily taken down “because of discrepancies in content that were subsequently discovered.” Asked to specify the alleged discrepancies by RIA Novosti, Der Spiegel said they were “still in the process of clarifying this issue.”
The video published by Reuters is only a minute long, however, and has Usmanova talking about the intensity of artillery fire and the difficult life inside the bunker. Both videos come from the same interview with multiple press outlets – including RIA Novosti, which has confirmed the authenticity of Usmanova’s remarks from the now-deleted Spiegel clip.
Instead of the video, the German magazine now features a photo of Usmanova in a bus with other civilians, taken by a RIA Novosti photographer on May 1.
Usmanova’s testimony directly contradicts claims by Azov militants and the government in Kiev that Russia is preventing the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal complex. Moscow has repeatedly opened humanitarian corridors from the area. The UN announced that another 500 civilians have been evacuated from the plant in the night between Thursday and Friday.
Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.
The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
The Azov battalion ARE neo-Nazis. They have been using civilians as human shields and they and other Ukrainian nationalists have been persecuting the ethnically Russian population for eight years.This simplistic narrative of Russia bad, Ukraine good. Is a lie.
Ukraine doesn't resemble a democracy or free country. Zelensky has imprisoned opposition leaders, banned or suspended all opposing political parties and has banned opposition media outlets.
THANK GOD they were deleted - we need to maintain our war footing, or we won’t get the WW3 we all want.
Right now there is a story on Yahoo of the “Russians raping while the loved one’s forced to watch”.
For some reason, one of the Azov Nazi has just been apprehended for doing exactly the same to the Mariupol couple and then killing the husband.
I think the similar “Russian” story is a lie planted for distraction from the real story. This war is officially the end of journalism.
Just like the stories of Germans bayoneting Belgian children.
Ukrainians lying? I’m shocked I tell you, shocked.
Thanks for the info. The People who live these wars are more believable, not the media.
That was an intentional wartime propaganda, not an attempt to imitate objective reporting. The volume of fake news regarding the Ukrainian situation is just mind-boggling.
You misspelled "Orkrainians"...
And yet, she has been evacuated.
fact: Russians invaded.
fact: Ukrainians defended.
fact: Soviet Russia decimated Ukrainian population.
fact: when Unoon troops marched into Virginia, Gen. Jackson persecuted the invasion, with intent to eradicate the invaders, at bayonet point.
So, invader is met by defender, defender vows to protect homeland, with his utmost. So, old hatred flames.
“This war is officially the end of journalism.”
It happened in stages, at least in the US.
But it was all-out ended when they immediately called Trump a liar for saying the election was stolen, and continue to do so in, literally, EVERY article on the subject. At most, they can say that Trump is making “unsupported claims” that the election was stolen, but the bottom line is that there exists TONS of evidence that really bad things happened here, and literally NONE of them are given any credence.
So the crap with Ukraine is no surprise to us MAGA types, which is why they don’t support the war. The people making the most noise either don’t live in the US, or are Neocons.
The Ukraine is fortunate in that its invasion coincides with an intense, innate hatred of Russia AND the leftist dogma STILL being perpetuated that “Russia, Russia, Russia” is responsible for Trump -—— and MAGA.
It doesn’t help truth and reason that their current plight, bolstered by support from leftist America that hates Trump, is ALSO aided by war-mongering RINOS and MIC payees aching to cash in on more war, protracted unending war through which they will make billions.
Why, their plight supersedes ALL of our US problems: crippling inflation, more taxes coming, rampant debt, completely unchecked invasion on our Southern Border and unending whining about abortions, menstrual dignity and the pandemic that isn’t.
I for one am not willing to countenance WWIII for a country whose leader berates and carps at every foreign governmental body that we OWE him everything we have for war - including the risk of nuclear exchange......
Not even....
“All women, children and elderly” have been evacuated from Azovstal, Ukrainian government says Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4061210/posts
No more “hostages”, that is, if there ever were any.
Same tactics they used on COVID. If that isn’t enough proof this is psyops for some sort of nefarious objective I don’t know what is.
The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty stuff in Ukraine.
When Rastus Johnson cake-walks thru Berlin
The Democrats must have been doing some really dirty stuff in Ukraine.
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The over the top support of Ukraine by the likes of Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff should give anyone pause.
The We Stand With Ukraine banners popped up everywhere on the Internet overnight.
An elderly, senile friend who was a lifelong Libertarian and does not even own a television now hates and fears Putin, thinks he is worse than Hitler, and wants us to go to war with Russia.
Kind of like what I see here.
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