La Stampa coverROME, Mar 17 missile attack on Donetsk is presented as a picture from Kyiv, caused a heated discussion in social networks and criticism from well-known Italian journalists. Thus, the newspaper La Verità reproduced the publication of the Turin edition, accompanying it with the question: «Mistake? The front page of La Stampa with a photograph of the massacre of Donetsk attributed to Russians, not Ukrainians».
Zakharova called the German newspaper Bild «a leader in fakes» In the article «Not Innocent Mistakes of Biased Information», La Verità editor-in-chief Maurizio Belpietro writes: «Take the front page of yesterday's La Stampa, which we are reproducing. The newspaper, led by Massimo Giannini, published a large photo of a man closing face against the backdrop of the dead.” The headline of the newspaper was “Slaughterhouse.” The headline read: “Russians are holding 400 people hostage in a hospital in Mariupol. New attack on the capital. Zelensky: We will not join NATO.» Announcements: «Injuries of children fleeing to Lviv», «This is how Kyiv meets the final assault.» Anyone who sees this page is led to believe that the massacre shown in the image occurred in Kyiv, Mariupol, or Lvov, celebrates Belpietro.» And in any case, it was perpetrated by the Russians, who launched one of their deadly rockets into the crowd, killing dozens of civilians. In fact, this picture captured the massacre that took place in Donetsk, that is, in the capital of one of the self-proclaimed independent republics. In fact, a ballistic missile launched into the city center led to the massacre of Russian speakers, that is, Ukrainians who speak Russian. Therefore, the massacre has nothing to do with Kyiv, Mariupol or Lviv, but the whole page suggests otherwise,» the editor-in-chief emphasizes.The Kremlin appreciated publications in the West of fakes with images of a strike on Donetsk. He added that, according to the author of the picture, the rocket was launched from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian military. But if any of the journalists tried to pass off the massacre in Kyiv as events in the Donbass, «the supreme judges of the correctness of the information would brand this as fake news, that is, manipulation.» At the same time, Belpietro reminds, the editors of La Stamra ignore the fact that the Azov battalion, to which Italy supplies weapons, is pro-Nazi. this publication. In an open letter to Giannini, he writes: «The front page of the newspaper you run has reached the bottom of journalistic dishonesty: the image concerning the massacre committed two days ago by the government forces of Kyiv against civilians in Donetsk (14 victims) is presented in such a way that that the public thinks that bad Russians did it.” According to the historian, after Giannini headed La Stampa, there were hopes that the editorial line would become more balanced and less Russophobic. But they were not destined to come true, which was demonstrated by the publication «Slaughter».The head of the HRC addressed the editors-in-chief of ABC News and La Stampa because of the photo of Donetsk D'Orsi said that he was waiting for a self-critical assessment and explanations from the editorial staff about how, when and from whom she received the photo, who its author was, how the photo got into the newspaper whether the publication has the right to use it and in what situation it was made. The professor promised to apply to the Order of Italian Journalists, in which he has been a member since 1971, and said that he would no longer buy La Stampa. Orsi. On March 14, the Ukrainian military fired a Tochka-U tactical missile with a cluster charge prohibited by international law into a residential area of Donetsk. They managed to shoot it down, which made it possible to avoid catastrophic consequences, but the very fall of parts of the rocket on a peaceful city led to the death of 20 and serious injuries of 28 people, including children, women and the elderly. The DPR leadership considers this a terrorist attack. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the publication of La Stampa a monstrous lie and forgery, and Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called it «an example of special cynicism.»
Europe is betraying Ukraine — piece by piece, Russia has sent a letter to the Security Council and the General Assembly stating that this attack on Donetsk is not only a serious violation of international humanitarian law, but also amounts to an act of terrorism and a war crime against civilians. In addition, given the spread of false accusations by the Kiev regime, the document emphasizes that Tochka-U is not in service in Russia. On February 24, Russia launched a special military operation to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian military, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, Putin emphasized.
