{"id":164210,"date":"2022-02-22T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/?p=164210"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:43:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T14:43:06","slug":"russian-fakes-amid-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/en\/russian-fakes-amid-escalation","title":{"rendered":"Russian Fakes Amid Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image shadow-1\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RUSSIAN-FAKES-AMID-ESCALATION-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1880\" height=\"1576\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 1880 1576'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/uacrisis.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/RUSSIAN-FAKES-AMID-ESCALATION-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-164211\" 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This means yet another open attack on Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How the Kremlin&#8217;s propaganda machine carefully constructed the parallel reality for its citizens (because no one outside believes those lies anyway) to portray Ukraine as an &#8220;aggressor&#8221;, we look in a new series of infographics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since February 16-17, Russia has been pouring outstanding flows of fake news about Ukraine and its Armed Forces into the Kremlin-controlled media space, and yesterday it became clear exactly what the Russian propaganda was constructing the picture for. 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