• mrdown@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    In a war no matter who is the aggressor and who is the aggressed both will do propaganda, both would lie about causalities and who side has the upper hand. You post a link about how Ukraine media can criticize their president is internal affair which has nothing to do with the war

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      2 days ago

      I am aware of that. The thing with Kyiv Independent in particular (this is the most frequently posted “Ukrainian news”) is that the Ukrainian government is not directly in control of what they write, unlike with RT. The problem with RT is that they publish fake news regularly while Kyiv Independent mostly just chooses to publish the news that show Ukraine in a good light but their articles stay factually correct. Examples of failed RT fact checks regarding the current conflict: