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🗓 On November 22, 1941, the first supply lorries drove across the ice of Ladoga Lake into besieged Leningrad. The 30 km-long route became known as the Road of Life — the only transport route linking the northern capital with the mainland during the Siege.
Over 2.5 million people, including 400,000 children, still remained in Leningrad on September 8, 1941, when the Nazis besieged it and thousands of people were dying of hunger daily before the Road of Life became operational.
🌾 During the first relief trip 60 of the legendary GAZ-AA “polutorka” lorries delivered 70 tonnes of flour to the people of Leningrad. Despite extremely bad weather conditions and constant Nazi shelling and bombing, the participants in the operation ensured the uninterrupted functioning of the transport route, making up to 3 trips per day to deliver the food to the residents of Leningrad.
🕯 To give you the scale of the operation: 300,000+ people were involved in the servicing and using the ice route. Nobody knows the exact number of people who gave their lives on the ice of Lake Ladoga. They were drivers, antiaircraft gunners, repairmen & traffic regulators.
💬 Driver of the 804th auto base on the Road of Life, Leonid Barkovich:
Overall, more than 1.6 million tonnes of cargo were delivered to the besieged city and 1.376 million people were evacuated by the end of the Road of Life’s operation in the spring of 1943. Combat hardware produced by Leningrad plants were carried in the opposite direction. This included KV tanks that were critical for the front and were manufactured only in Leningrad at that time.
Owing to the incredible efforts of drivers, freight handlers, engineers and auto mechanics, tens of thousands of people in Leningrad were saved from starvation. The delivered relief allowed them to survive the most horrible days of winter in the besieged city.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
Over 2.5 million people, including 400,000 children, still remained in Leningrad on September 8, 1941, when the Nazis besieged it and thousands of people were dying of hunger daily before the Road of Life became operational.
🌾 During the first relief trip 60 of the legendary GAZ-AA “polutorka” lorries delivered 70 tonnes of flour to the people of Leningrad. Despite extremely bad weather conditions and constant Nazi shelling and bombing, the participants in the operation ensured the uninterrupted functioning of the transport route, making up to 3 trips per day to deliver the food to the residents of Leningrad.
🕯 To give you the scale of the operation: 300,000+ people were involved in the servicing and using the ice route. Nobody knows the exact number of people who gave their lives on the ice of Lake Ladoga. They were drivers, antiaircraft gunners, repairmen & traffic regulators.
💬 Driver of the 804th auto base on the Road of Life, Leonid Barkovich:
Each of us wanted to avoid an enemy shell but everyone knew that death alone would prevent us from doing our duty and carrying out orders.
Overall, more than 1.6 million tonnes of cargo were delivered to the besieged city and 1.376 million people were evacuated by the end of the Road of Life’s operation in the spring of 1943. Combat hardware produced by Leningrad plants were carried in the opposite direction. This included KV tanks that were critical for the front and were manufactured only in Leningrad at that time.
Owing to the incredible efforts of drivers, freight handlers, engineers and auto mechanics, tens of thousands of people in Leningrad were saved from starvation. The delivered relief allowed them to survive the most horrible days of winter in the besieged city.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
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🎙 Briefing by Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Rodion Miroshnik on the crimes committed by the Kiev regime.
📍 Moscow, November 21, 2023
Key talking points:
• The Maidan became a trigger that led the country to decades of bloodshed and degradation. The acting president was illegitimate and he ordered gangs of radicals to kill the residents of Donbass that did not agree with the coup d'etat.
❗️ We are convinced: were the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic not recognized by Russia on February 21, 2022, and the agreements on mutual assistance were not signed, the residents of Donbass could've faced the plight of the victims we are now witnessing in the Middle East.
• We can state the facts of the Ukrainian army hitting ambulances, medical staff, and the purpose is to deprive people of getting emergency medical assistance.
• The use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian armed forces has become a common practice.
• The Kiev regime is striking technogenically hazardous and radiation-hazardous sites. They try to use the technogenical danger in order to aggravate the situation.
☢️ The issue of attempts to create a radiation catastrophe for the Kiev regime is a separate item, as the Ukrainian armed forces and other special services of Ukraine have made repeated attempts to strike three nuclear facilities at once run by Russia. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was the most frequently hit by Ukrainian armed formations.
• Latest data confirms that time for the purposeful strikes by Ukrainian military on social institutions on Russian territory is chosen deliberately to target more civilians, given that high-precision weapons are used.
☝️ We investigate all of these cases in order to follow the prosecutors for these crimes. <...> We will finally move to organizing a specialized criminal investigations against the political leadership of Ukraine for their terrorist activities and violating humanitarian law, as well as those crimes mentioned before.
📍 Moscow, November 21, 2023
Key talking points:
• The Maidan became a trigger that led the country to decades of bloodshed and degradation. The acting president was illegitimate and he ordered gangs of radicals to kill the residents of Donbass that did not agree with the coup d'etat.
❗️ We are convinced: were the Donetsk People's Republic and the Lugansk People's Republic not recognized by Russia on February 21, 2022, and the agreements on mutual assistance were not signed, the residents of Donbass could've faced the plight of the victims we are now witnessing in the Middle East.
• We can state the facts of the Ukrainian army hitting ambulances, medical staff, and the purpose is to deprive people of getting emergency medical assistance.
• The use of terrorist methods by the Ukrainian armed forces has become a common practice.
• The Kiev regime is striking technogenically hazardous and radiation-hazardous sites. They try to use the technogenical danger in order to aggravate the situation.
☢️ The issue of attempts to create a radiation catastrophe for the Kiev regime is a separate item, as the Ukrainian armed forces and other special services of Ukraine have made repeated attempts to strike three nuclear facilities at once run by Russia. The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant was the most frequently hit by Ukrainian armed formations.
• Latest data confirms that time for the purposeful strikes by Ukrainian military on social institutions on Russian territory is chosen deliberately to target more civilians, given that high-precision weapons are used.
☝️ We investigate all of these cases in order to follow the prosecutors for these crimes. <...> We will finally move to organizing a specialized criminal investigations against the political leadership of Ukraine for their terrorist activities and violating humanitarian law, as well as those crimes mentioned before.
🎙 Russia's President Vladimir Putin took part in the extraordinary G20 summit, held via videoconference.
💬 Vladimir Putin: The state of affairs in the global economy and the world at large require collective, consensus-based decisions that reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community, including both developed and developing countries. <...>
The enormous stress on the global economy is a direct consequence of the ill-considered macroeconomic policies of some countries. <...>
Unlawful trade restrictions and the climate agenda pursued by some countries in order to improve their own competitiveness, continue to have a negative impact. <...>
🇷🇺 Russia advocates restoring the spirit of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation based on the UN Charter and the principles of collegial and mutually respectful joint work.
It is important to achieve an effective optimisation of the global economic governance system, in particular, to restart the WTO in its entirety, including its arbitration function.
We need to enhance the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank, and to use those bodies’ resources to promote the development of countries and regions that really need it, and not for opportunistic political purposes.
🤝 We are ready to work together to address these urgent issues at the G20 and other international institutions, including BRICS, an association that is gaining weight and influence – this much is obvious, especially considering its ongoing expansion.
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💬 Vladimir Putin: The state of affairs in the global economy and the world at large require collective, consensus-based decisions that reflect the views of the overwhelming majority of the international community, including both developed and developing countries. <...>
The enormous stress on the global economy is a direct consequence of the ill-considered macroeconomic policies of some countries. <...>
Unlawful trade restrictions and the climate agenda pursued by some countries in order to improve their own competitiveness, continue to have a negative impact. <...>
🇷🇺 Russia advocates restoring the spirit of open and mutually beneficial international economic cooperation based on the UN Charter and the principles of collegial and mutually respectful joint work.
It is important to achieve an effective optimisation of the global economic governance system, in particular, to restart the WTO in its entirety, including its arbitration function.
We need to enhance the role of developing economies in international financial institutions, including the IMF and the World Bank, and to use those bodies’ resources to promote the development of countries and regions that really need it, and not for opportunistic political purposes.
🤝 We are ready to work together to address these urgent issues at the G20 and other international institutions, including BRICS, an association that is gaining weight and influence – this much is obvious, especially considering its ongoing expansion.
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#Opinion of Maria Zakharova
Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen: “To begin with, we have a free civil society in Finland and we Finns are eager to help the Ukrainians in this defensive battle. We also have the right and even an international commitment to do this in accordance with the UN Charter.”
💬 Ms Valtonen, you are helping a neo-Nazi regime. Face the facts and don’t forget it!
As for a “free civil society,” nobody in Finland asks for its opinion.
What kind of a free society is it if its opinion is not even considered when making the most important decisions for the people and the country? Or have I missed something and a referendum on Finland’s accession to NATO was actually held?
I recall President Sauli Niinisto always said that if and when this issue became urgent it would be necessary to hold a consultative referendum. He also invoked “freedom” and “democracy.” But when it became necessary to go from words to deeds, nobody asked your “society.” Everything was done according to Washington’s instructions.
Foreign Minister of Finland Elina Valtonen: “To begin with, we have a free civil society in Finland and we Finns are eager to help the Ukrainians in this defensive battle. We also have the right and even an international commitment to do this in accordance with the UN Charter.”
💬 Ms Valtonen, you are helping a neo-Nazi regime. Face the facts and don’t forget it!
As for a “free civil society,” nobody in Finland asks for its opinion.
What kind of a free society is it if its opinion is not even considered when making the most important decisions for the people and the country? Or have I missed something and a referendum on Finland’s accession to NATO was actually held?
I recall President Sauli Niinisto always said that if and when this issue became urgent it would be necessary to hold a consultative referendum. He also invoked “freedom” and “democracy.” But when it became necessary to go from words to deeds, nobody asked your “society.” Everything was done according to Washington’s instructions.
🕯 We mourn the untimely death of Boris Maksudov, correspondent of the Rossiya-24 television channel.
This is an irreparable loss for the entire journalistic community in Russia. The memory of him as a talented professional and a bright creative personality will forever remain in our hearts.
It was thanks to his selfless work that the world could see the truth about what was happening on the line of contact and about the terrorist methods used by the criminal Kiev regime against civilians, including journalists.
We express our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
This is an irreparable loss for the entire journalistic community in Russia. The memory of him as a talented professional and a bright creative personality will forever remain in our hearts.
It was thanks to his selfless work that the world could see the truth about what was happening on the line of contact and about the terrorist methods used by the criminal Kiev regime against civilians, including journalists.
We express our sincere condolences to his family and friends.
🎙 President of Russia Vladimir Putin took part in a Plenary Session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in Minsk.
💬 President Putin: The Belorusian chairmanship and the team of all states taking part in this session have conducted active work throughout the year. This work facilitated the consolidation of our allied ties in the CSTO on the principles of respect, consideration of each other’s interests and support.
In this way, the CSTO member-countries in effect promoted the CSTO’s key role as a regional defensive structure responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the vast Eurasian space.
☝️ Importantly, this year the CSTO has also developed its contacts with our natural partners, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) and the #CIS.
I would like to make a special mention of our joint efforts to improve the collective rapid deployment forces, aviation and the CSTO peacekeeping forces. A number of measures have been taken to maintain combat readiness, enhance the command and control system and provide more training for military personnel.
✅ We have consistently promoted cooperation between our security services and law enforcement bodies. Notably, the CSTO is continuing its Operation Mercenary aimed at preventing the recruitment of citizens of our countries and blocking the channels of their exit for participation in international terrorist groups.
✅ We implemented together a package of measures on countering extremism, cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking.
✅ The CSTO Coordination Council on Biological Security has launched its work. It has focused on preventing threats linked with the development and use of biological weapons and ensuring radiation, chemical and medical protection.
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💬 President Putin: The Belorusian chairmanship and the team of all states taking part in this session have conducted active work throughout the year. This work facilitated the consolidation of our allied ties in the CSTO on the principles of respect, consideration of each other’s interests and support.
In this way, the CSTO member-countries in effect promoted the CSTO’s key role as a regional defensive structure responsible for the maintenance of peace and stability in the vast Eurasian space.
☝️ Importantly, this year the CSTO has also developed its contacts with our natural partners, including the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (#SCO) and the #CIS.
I would like to make a special mention of our joint efforts to improve the collective rapid deployment forces, aviation and the CSTO peacekeeping forces. A number of measures have been taken to maintain combat readiness, enhance the command and control system and provide more training for military personnel.
✅ We have consistently promoted cooperation between our security services and law enforcement bodies. Notably, the CSTO is continuing its Operation Mercenary aimed at preventing the recruitment of citizens of our countries and blocking the channels of their exit for participation in international terrorist groups.
✅ We implemented together a package of measures on countering extremism, cross-border crime, illegal migration and drug trafficking.
✅ The CSTO Coordination Council on Biological Security has launched its work. It has focused on preventing threats linked with the development and use of biological weapons and ensuring radiation, chemical and medical protection.
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⚡️ Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s comment on the killing of Russian journalist Boris Maksudov
💬 On November 22, the Kiev regime gunmen deliberately attacked a group of Russian journalists with a drone carrying a fragmentation shell. The journalists were working on a report about Ukrainian shelling of civilian targets in the Zaporozhye Region. The next day, military correspondent Boris Maksudov succumbed to his wounds.
🕯 First and foremost, we express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Boris Maksudov and those of all media professionals who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The criminal Kiev regime continues to consider Russian journalists and war correspondents as priority targets, and is hunting them down. Despicably, it targets unarmed correspondents, photographers, and cameramen. The regime employs blatantly terrorist methods to eliminate them, without fearing any criticism from its Western curators or biased human rights organisations. They flaunt their actions.
❗️ The brutal killing of Boris Maksudov is yet another heinous crime committed by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, which bears responsibility for the deaths of many thousands of innocent civilians. We are confident that this crime will not go unpunished, and the culprits will not escape fair and lawful retribution.
💬 On November 22, the Kiev regime gunmen deliberately attacked a group of Russian journalists with a drone carrying a fragmentation shell. The journalists were working on a report about Ukrainian shelling of civilian targets in the Zaporozhye Region. The next day, military correspondent Boris Maksudov succumbed to his wounds.
🕯 First and foremost, we express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Boris Maksudov and those of all media professionals who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The criminal Kiev regime continues to consider Russian journalists and war correspondents as priority targets, and is hunting them down. Despicably, it targets unarmed correspondents, photographers, and cameramen. The regime employs blatantly terrorist methods to eliminate them, without fearing any criticism from its Western curators or biased human rights organisations. They flaunt their actions.
❗️ The brutal killing of Boris Maksudov is yet another heinous crime committed by the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, which bears responsibility for the deaths of many thousands of innocent civilians. We are confident that this crime will not go unpunished, and the culprits will not escape fair and lawful retribution.
🗓 On November 24, 1944, the Baltic Strategic Offensive concluded. It resulted in the rout of Germans in the Baltic countries and the liberation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from the Nazis.
Through their grip on the Baltics, the Nazis controlled shipments in the Baltic Sea, protected East Prussia and used the territories of the Baltic states as one of their main supply depots.
🕯 The Nazis destroyed over 500,000 civilians and 600,000 POWs in punitive operations and executions during the occupation of the Baltic republics. Baltic collaborationists took direct part in the Nazi policy of exterminating the Jews. In Latvia alone, 95 percent of Jews – about 70,000 Latvian Jews and approximately 20,000 Jews brought to Latvia from other countries, were killed in 1941-1944.
🌟 Despite the German command’s plan to contain Soviet troops for more than six months, the Soviet soldiers completed its large-scale offensive in 71 days. The success of the Red Army allowed it not only to free considerable territories of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, but also to create prerequisites for ousting Nazi invaders from East Prussia.
Apart from Soviet troops, the 16th Lithuanian rifle division, the 8th Estonian rifle corps and the 130th Latvian rifle corps played an active role in liberating their homelands.
💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from the weekly briefing on November 17, 2021):
🎖 During the Baltic Offensive, 112 Soviet officers and soldiers were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and three servicemen received second Gold Star medals. Orders and medals were conferred on over 332,000 military.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
Through their grip on the Baltics, the Nazis controlled shipments in the Baltic Sea, protected East Prussia and used the territories of the Baltic states as one of their main supply depots.
🕯 The Nazis destroyed over 500,000 civilians and 600,000 POWs in punitive operations and executions during the occupation of the Baltic republics. Baltic collaborationists took direct part in the Nazi policy of exterminating the Jews. In Latvia alone, 95 percent of Jews – about 70,000 Latvian Jews and approximately 20,000 Jews brought to Latvia from other countries, were killed in 1941-1944.
Apart from Soviet troops, the 16th Lithuanian rifle division, the 8th Estonian rifle corps and the 130th Latvian rifle corps played an active role in liberating their homelands.
💬 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (from the weekly briefing on November 17, 2021):
It is regrettable that attempts are being made to obliterate the memory of heroism of the Soviet Army, which fought side by side with Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians to liberate the Baltic states from Nazism, and that monuments to the liberators are being dismantled and demolished because they allegedly constitute elements of communist propaganda.
🎖 During the Baltic Offensive, 112 Soviet officers and soldiers were awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and three servicemen received second Gold Star medals. Orders and medals were conferred on over 332,000 military.
#Victory78 #WeRemember
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🎓 The registration is open for the International Scientific Physics Olympiad to be held on December 3 – 11, 2023 in Khanty-Mansyisk, Russia.
The Olympiad invites school students and school graduates who haven’t yet started to study in universities or who have been enrolled to a university after July 1, 2023.
🌐 The competition is open to both national delegations or individual participants. Each participating state can send a delegation consisting of school teams (no more than 5 contestants) and 2 accompanying persons (delegation leaders).
The Olympiad is aimed at increasing the interest of school students in in-depth study of physics and providing the participants a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience in solving and modeling theoretical and experimental problems.
The event is organized by the Government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education.
#ISPhO uses English as its main language.
The Olympiad invites school students and school graduates who haven’t yet started to study in universities or who have been enrolled to a university after July 1, 2023.
🌐 The competition is open to both national delegations or individual participants. Each participating state can send a delegation consisting of school teams (no more than 5 contestants) and 2 accompanying persons (delegation leaders).
The Olympiad is aimed at increasing the interest of school students in in-depth study of physics and providing the participants a unique opportunity to gain valuable experience in solving and modeling theoretical and experimental problems.
The event is organized by the Government of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education.
#ISPhO uses English as its main language.
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In a spectacular U-turn the inimitable Owen Matthews, who last year gloated that "sanctions are working", has by now deduced the obvious - that they have "utterly failed".
His conclusions that the #West has shot itself in the foot, helping #Russia to "de-offshore" & boost its economy while inflicting collective punishment against Russian communities across Europe, seem to have been lifted straight from Russian Embassy's Twitter account.
Thanks, Owen. But this doesn't mean you are coming off our "stop-list" any time soon.
His conclusions that the #West has shot itself in the foot, helping #Russia to "de-offshore" & boost its economy while inflicting collective punishment against Russian communities across Europe, seem to have been lifted straight from Russian Embassy's Twitter account.
Thanks, Owen. But this doesn't mean you are coming off our "stop-list" any time soon.
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🎙Read excerpts from the statement of Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE M.Buyakevich
«On the report by the OSCE Representative on the Freedom of the Media» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 23.11.23)
💬 Summarising the results of Teresa Ribeiro activities as Representative on Freedom of the Media, we are forced to admit that she has failed to live up to expectations placed on her. The office of such an important and uniquely functional structure is in the deepest crisis
🔻Mrs.Teresa Ribeiro failed to ignore the pressure exerted on her by some Western countries, to carry out her functions transparently, equidistantly and without “double standards”, as required by the mandate
🔻Representative's choice of information sources by assessing the media situation in participating States continues to raise many questions. None of our concerns, submitted to the office in writing recently, have been taken into account
«On the report by the OSCE Representative on the Freedom of the Media» (meeting of the OSCE PC, 23.11.23)
💬 Summarising the results of Teresa Ribeiro activities as Representative on Freedom of the Media, we are forced to admit that she has failed to live up to expectations placed on her. The office of such an important and uniquely functional structure is in the deepest crisis
🔻Mrs.Teresa Ribeiro failed to ignore the pressure exerted on her by some Western countries, to carry out her functions transparently, equidistantly and without “double standards”, as required by the mandate
🔻Representative's choice of information sources by assessing the media situation in participating States continues to raise many questions. None of our concerns, submitted to the office in writing recently, have been taken into account
🇷🇺 Russia's EMERCOM delivered 15 tonnes of humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip
✅ Food products;
✅ Baby food;
✅ Clothing;
✅ Sleeping bags;
✅ Hygiene items.
The humanitarian cargo will be distributed by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📷 EMERCOM of Russia
#RussiaHelps
✅ Food products;
✅ Baby food;
✅ Clothing;
✅ Sleeping bags;
✅ Hygiene items.
The humanitarian cargo will be distributed by the Egyptian Red Crescent Society.
📷 EMERCOM of Russia
#RussiaHelps
#AntiFakeOfTheDay
That's exactly how they did it with Russia
Today, the entire world witnessed how members of the British Labour party mocked Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for "misusing a hammer."
They released a video showing Prime Minister Sunak using a hammer on its side. The video captions read: "Not the son of a toolmaker. Man who hammers working people can't work a hammer."
However, if one watches the full clip from ITV, a British television network, it becomes clear that the video was taken during the politician's visit to a jewelry workshop in Yorkshire, in the north of England. In the complete version of the video, it is evident and audible that Sunak was specifically instructed to use the hammer sideways. The Labour party only released a portion of the video, omitting the part with the instructions.
Today, when this manipulative post was shared, Rishi Sunak became Russhi Sunak, as in Russia 👉 This is exactly what the West has been doing with Russia, by selectively using video clips, audios and quotes without context or by focusing only on specific actions, twisting their original meaning.
Subsequent refutations based on facts are either ignored or deliberately hushed up.
This is information manipulation, spreading fake news that is detrimental to the world. In the case of the British Prime Minister, the dissemination of misinformation was targeted and could be halted. But the anti-Russia media campaign has become a real (info)pandemic.
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That's exactly how they did it with Russia
Today, the entire world witnessed how members of the British Labour party mocked Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for "misusing a hammer."
They released a video showing Prime Minister Sunak using a hammer on its side. The video captions read: "Not the son of a toolmaker. Man who hammers working people can't work a hammer."
However, if one watches the full clip from ITV, a British television network, it becomes clear that the video was taken during the politician's visit to a jewelry workshop in Yorkshire, in the north of England. In the complete version of the video, it is evident and audible that Sunak was specifically instructed to use the hammer sideways. The Labour party only released a portion of the video, omitting the part with the instructions.
Today, when this manipulative post was shared, Rishi Sunak became Russhi Sunak, as in Russia 👉 This is exactly what the West has been doing with Russia, by selectively using video clips, audios and quotes without context or by focusing only on specific actions, twisting their original meaning.
Subsequent refutations based on facts are either ignored or deliberately hushed up.
This is information manipulation, spreading fake news that is detrimental to the world. In the case of the British Prime Minister, the dissemination of misinformation was targeted and could be halted. But the anti-Russia media campaign has become a real (info)pandemic.
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