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COMMENT | Massacre of Bucha: Why propaganda can be deadly

COMMENT | The unprovoked Russian aggression against Ukraine has been topping international headlines for more than a month now.

Humankind is witnessing with disbelief the horrific crimes taking place in the middle of 21st century Europe.

The cruel, unjust and unnecessary war imposed on the world by the Kremlin already resulted in a tremendous humanitarian crisis with thousands of civilian casualties, seven million internally displaced persons in Ukraine and another four million seeking refuge in the neighbouring countries.

It is a tragedy caused by the sick imperial ambitions of an economically underdeveloped, but overstuffed with nuclear warheads regime living in a nostalgic hallucination.

The Bucha massacre, a small town near Kyiv, where a mass burial site was discovered after the Russian retreat with hundreds of corpses, bodies of raped women and girls, tortured and executed civilians, some with their hands tied, lying on the streets, has already become a gruesome symbol of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vision of “neutrality” and “denazification” for Ukraine and brought back the memories of Srebrenica.

Yet, the audacity of Russian propaganda and voices of...


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