RT Studio . File photoMOSCOW, Feb. 28The US company Meta will restrict access to RT and Sputnik in the EU, said Nick Clegg, vice president of the world's largest social network operator.
"We have received requests from a number of governments and the EU to take further action against Russian state media. Given the emergency nature of the current situation, we will be restricting access to RT and Sputnik within the EU for the time being,» Clegg wrote on Twitter.
On Sunday, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced the blocking of the work of a number of Russian media in the EU as one of the sanctions measures in connection with the special operation carried out by Russia to demilitarize Ukraine. Von der Leyen said the ban will include RT, Sputnik and their subsidiaries. The head of the EC added that the European Commission is developing the necessary tools for this. The situation with the Russian media in the West has become increasingly difficult in recent years. In November 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution stating the need to counter the Russian media, with Sputnik and RT named as the main threats in the document. A number of Western politicians, including US senators and congressmen, as well as the President of France, accused Sputnik and RT of interfering in the elections in the US and France, but did not provide any evidence. Official Russian representatives called such statements unfounded.Russia is obliged to block FacebookRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine early on Thursday, February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the President of Russia emphasized. On Monday morning, more than 1.1 thousand objects were hit: airfields, command posts, radar stations, and so on. The territory around the Chernobyl (mothballed) and Zaporozhye (operating) nuclear power plants was taken under control. Eight years later, the North Crimean Canal was unblocked, water supply to the Crimea was restored.The West has opened a second front against Russia. EconomicThe offensive is going on in several directions, Kyiv is blocked from the west. A detailed map of the regions of Ukraine in which the Russian military operates, however, has not yet been officially published. The RF Armed Forces have achieved air supremacy over the whole of Ukraine. According to the RF Ministry of Defense, there are dead and wounded among the Russian troops, but the losses among the Ukrainian troops and nationalists are many times higher. Exact figures have not yet been released. The Russian military department reports a number of cases of voluntary laying down of arms by Ukrainian troops — they are guaranteed safety and return to their families. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian security forces are deploying multiple rocket launchers right in the residential areas of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. Putin called this a terrorist tactic.The development of the situation is in the online report >>
The genocide against which Europe laughsPosted by: A. Pokrovskaya