There is a total information war against Russia, the head of the Human Rights Council said

Valery Fadeev. Archival photoMOSCOW, April 15There is a total information war and a distortion of real processes under the control of Western forces in terms of Ukraine and Russia, Valery Fadeev, head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. «Now, at least in terms of Ukraine, Russia, there is a total information campaign, a total distortion of real processes. This campaign is undoubtedly under the control of those Western forces that we are actually fighting in Ukraine,» Fadeev said. The State Duma called Google the cudgel of the US information war. In addition, he said that he had not received a refutation from the American ABC News TV channel and the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which issued photographs from the site of the Ukrainian missile strike on Donetsk for the actions of the Russian army. «Neither adequate nor inadequate response I didn't get it. In our intellectual circles, for a long time there was an idea of ​​the independence and objectivity of the Western media. Unfortunately, this is not the case. We see that there is neither independence nor objectivity,» Fadeev added. Previously, Fadeev sent letters to the editors-in-chief of the American TV channel ABC News and the Italian newspaper La Stampa, which released photos from the site of the Ukrainian Tochka-U attack on Donetsk for Russian troops striking Western Ukraine and Kiev. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.