It is an undeniable fact that the media in Russia has been under the control of President Vladimir Putin for a long time and there is propaganda that manipulates the people in the country. Of course, while there are organizations that serve propaganda in almost every country today, the seriousness of the situation in Russia has been shared with the stories of Ukrainians today.
The news published by the BBC World Service Disinformation Research Team describes the efforts of some people living in Ukraine, whose relatives are in Russia, to convince their families that there is a war and that Russia is attacking them. However, these people cannot convince their relatives despite the evidence they send.
They cannot convince their own parents:
For example, 25-year-old Oleksandra, 25-year-old Oleksandra, said that her city was bombed. He sent videos to his mother by making videos showing But the mother said that despite these videos, she was not convinced of her daughter. Oleksandra believed that such incidents were accidental, that the Russian army would never target civilians, and that the Ukrainian army killed her own people. Also, the mother said that the soldiers came to Ukraine to ‘liberate’ them, that they would not harm anything.
According to the BBC, Russian channels showed the cause of the war as Ukraine’s aggression and described it as a ‘special liberation operation’. While it is known that the words war, occupation and attack are banned in the Russian media, it is stated that media outlets that use these words are in danger of being banned on the grounds of ‘deliberately spreading disinformation about Russian soldiers’.
Another story is from Mikhailo, whose father works in Russia, who managed to get his family out of Ukraine. Expressing that his father never called him, Mikhailo explained that when he called his father and told him what had happened, his father said that these events were not true. His father said, “No, there is no war, the Russians are saving Ukraine from the Nazis.”
Anastasya, another example, said that her family, who lives in the village in Donetsk and watches Russian channels, does not believe the situation. Anastasya, who called her mother at five in the morning, said that her mother had told her, “Don’t worry, Russia will never bomb Kiev.” When she told her mother that the bombing had begun, she said, “But that’s what we had to do when Ukraine bombed Donbas.” she got her answer.
You can reach the special news published by the BBC by clicking this link.
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