{"id":102554,"date":"2022-04-08T14:48:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/?p=102554"},"modified":"2022-04-08T14:48:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T12:48:53","slug":"disinformation-to-conceal-war-crimes-russia-is-lying-about-atrocities-in-bucha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/disinformation-to-conceal-war-crimes-russia-is-lying-about-atrocities-in-bucha\/","title":{"rendered":"Disinformation to conceal war crimes: Russia is lying about atrocities in bucha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The images of bodies strewn across the streets of Bucha, killed execution-style, show the true face of Putin\u2019s Russia. These images speak louder than words about the nature and aims of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. Still, the pro-Kremlin media bolstered by Russian diplomatic social media accounts are speaking, in an attempt to distract and obfuscate the facts of war crimes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102555 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hands-Ukraine-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian provocation, a set-up to unleash World War III, a coordinated attack by the Western media, a distraction from \u201cUS biological laboratories\u201d in Ukraine, a British plot \u2013 explained by the EU-sanctioned propagandist Vladimir Solovyov\u00a0 with the resemblance of the name Bucha to the English word \u201cbutcher\u201d \u2013 the excuses made by the pro-Kremlin media are as sickening as they are repetitive. (And they have been extensively debunked, see for example: BBC, Bellingcat, the Insider, MediaZona, NYT and others).<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin is trying to occupy the information space by flooding it with contradicting \u201cexplanations\u201d of the events. The goal is not only to deflect the blame for this particular atrocity against peaceful civilians, but also to pre-emptively shape narratives for countering and discrediting any evidence or investigation into Russian war crimes in Ukraine. Russian state-controlled news agency RIA Novosti is working hard to fulfil this task already, alleging that Ukraine is preparing a \u201cprovocation\u201d in Kherson, involving the deaths of civilians\u2026<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/disinformation-the-harder-you-push-the-harder-they-resist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin-Zelensky-wresting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"93\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/disinformation-the-harder-you-push-the-harder-they-resist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disinformation: The harder you push, the harder they resist<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These tactics of flooding and preventively occupying the information space come straight out of the Kremlin\u2019s disinformation playbook and were applied before, for example in the aftermath of Russia\u2019s downing of flight MH17. The EUvsDisinfo database contains hundreds of examples of pro-Kremlin disinformation claims alleging, among other things, that like the killing of civilians in Bucha, the killing of civilians aboard MH17 was a provocation and a set-up to frame Russia, involving fake dead bodies (compare the claims in 2014 and now).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian diplomatic accounts on social media used for disinformation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In contrast to 2014, the flooding of the international information space has become more complicated for the Kremlin, especially after the EU sanctioned RT and Sputnik. At the same time, Russian diplomatic accounts on social media have been playing a prominent role in the Kremlin\u2019s communication strategy related to the invasion of Ukraine. In particular, Twitter accounts of Russia\u2019s diplomatic missions acting in a coordinated network have been trying to discredit the reporting of independent media from Ukraine, and amplify disinformation narratives justifying the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the network of Russian diplomatic Twitter accounts is amplifying lies about the Bucha killings, linking to a recently-created website that spreads disinformation behind the fa\u00e7ade of fact-checking.<\/p>\n<p>Russian diplomats on Twitter are also taking an active part in shaping the narrative of global \u201cRussophobia\u201d. Claims that the world is unfair and hostile to Russia and Russians have been at the core of pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives for years, and continue to be deliberately stoked in the context of war. On social media this has taken the shape of the \u201cStop hating Russians\u201d campaign, distributed by Russian diplomatic accounts and portraying Russians as persecuted people because of their nationality (since the beginning of March a related hashtag was mentioned more than 24,000 times on Twitter).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26.png 1600w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26-1280x720.png 1280w, https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-26-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 5 April, Twitter announced it \u201cwill not amplify or recommend government accounts belonging to states that limit access to free information and are engaged in armed interstate conflict\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support system for the war machine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Russian diplomats are attempting to frame Russia as a\u00a0victim\u00a0of its own aggression against Ukraine \u2013 an effort that is likely to intensify amid calls supporting the\u00a0investigation of Russian war crimes\u00a0and crimes against humanity \u2013 pro-Kremlin pundits are charting a way forward.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 99.9988%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: double; border-color: #001f7d;\" cellpadding=\"0,5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/putin-the-new-tamer-of-neo-nazism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Putin-Nazi-row-of-soldiers--768x432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cde.ual.es\/en\/putin-the-new-tamer-of-neo-nazism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Putin: The new tamer of neo-Nazism?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To boost the notoriously poor morale of the invading Russian forces (and, perhaps, distract them from\u00a0looting\u00a0and\u00a0marauding), Russian state news agency RIA Novosti published a long-form article headlined \u201cWhat Russia should do with Ukraine\u201d. Among other things, the text is calling for mass repression of the Ukrainian population and a ban of the name \u201cUkraine\u201d itself. You can find a more detailed analysis\u00a0here.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this context that disinformation trying to obfuscate the Russian atrocities in Bucha should be seen \u2013 as a\u00a0support system for Russia\u2019s war machine and as a part of deliberate strategy to destroy Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information: <a href=\"https:\/\/euvsdisinfo.eu\/disinformation-to-conceal-war-crimes-russia-is-lying-about-atrocities-in-bucha\/\">EUvsDisinfo &#8211; Press release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The images of bodies strewn across the streets of Bucha, killed execution-style, show the true face of Putin\u2019s Russia. These images speak louder than words about the nature and aims of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. 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