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Driven by military setbacks in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin continues his strategy of denial. Propaganda is a weapon used by the Russians since the beginning of the war.
According to the latest information from the Pentagon, the Russian cruiser Moskva was sunk by two Ukrainian missiles on Thursday April 14 in the Black Sea. But the Russians deny a Ukrainian attack and give the thesis of a complication. According to Vladimir Putin’s army, ammunition exploded by accident and the loss of this ship had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
Manipulating information is a strategy used since the beginning of the conflict by Moscow. Last March, Russia denied its involvement in the terrible massacre of Boutcha (Ukraine). The Kremlin also contested the bombardment of a maternity ward in Mariupol (Ukraine). “Current Russian propaganda is very similar to that which took place under the Syrian conflict with a whole questioning of the massacres”analyzes the historian Marie Peltier