Big TVs play Russian state news in support of the invasion. The port city occupied by Putin’s troops still lacks electricity and water
< /i> Russian propaganda in Mariupol
The Kremlin has deployed three vans disseminating Russian propaganda at humanitarian aid points in the captured city of Mariupol.
Russia began broadcasting its news of state television in the devastated port city of Mariupol and other places it controls in eastern Ukraine, Russian and Ukrainian officials said Thursday.
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, or MChS, said it has launched “three mobile complexes to inform and alert the population” that will be “broadcasting news for two hours in different parts of Mariupol.”
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Such mobile units also operate in the city of Volnovakha and the Lyman district of the Ukrainian province of Donetsk, transmitting state news programs, “practical information” and cartoons. for kids, Russian state news agency Tass reported on Thursday.
Petro Adnryushchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol, published images of MChS trucks on his Telegram channel with TV screens broadcasting Russian news programs to crowds of people in the Russian-occupied city.
Russia began broadcasting its state television news in the devastated port city of Mariupol and other places it controls in eastern Ukraine
“Yesterday, the occupants launched three mobile propaganda cars and also installed 12 75-inch televisions in mass gathering places: humanitarian aid distribution points, paperwork points and water access points,” he wrote. “The practice of ‘there is no food, so let’s fill them with lies’ is gaining momentum.”
“Truth and propaganda,” wrote Anton Gerashenko, advisor to the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs, publishing a video of the trucks superimposed on images of the city’s ruins. This is “the Russian world”, he added.
Such mobile units also operate in the city of Volnovakha and the Lyman district of the Ukrainian province of Donetsk
How the situation in Mariupol is progressing
The head of the Russian-backed breakaway region in eastern Ukraine says there may be more Ukrainian fighters hiding at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, even after Moscow officially declared the operation to seize the control was successful and completed.
Denis Pushilin of the Donetsk People’s Republic said on Thursday about the Ukrainian fighters:“They could be hiding… They could be lost somewhere, lagging behind” those who surrendered and were captured.
The Russian army declared Azovstal and all of Mariupol “fully liberated” on May 20 and reported that a total of 2,439 fighters had left the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the besieged city.
Pushilin says Ukrainians who left at the plant do not pose a threat to Russian forces.
Russian officials have said that the steelworks’ vast territory is being demined. Pushilin said that it will be possible to say that there is no one left there only after that process is completed, the debris is cleaned and the plant is thoroughly inspected.
“Unfortunately, we already have wounded sappers,” he said. “There are a lot of traps, booby traps. Technically, they had everything for this. Therefore, mine clearance is very complete.”
(With information from AP)