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“There are no military targets in Kyiv. We’re striking to intimidate civilians”: Russian propagandists have effectively admitted to the true purpose of the attacks

“There are no military targets in Kyiv. We’re striking to intimidate civilians”: Russian propagandists have effectively admitted to the true purpose of the attacks

Iryna Mazipchuk
Iryna Mazipchuk

managing editor

“There are no military targets in Kyiv. We’re striking to intimidate civilians”: Russian propagandists have effectively admitted to the true purpose of the attacks
Kyiv Kyiv Regional Military Administration

Russian propagandists on the “Solovyov Live” TV channel openly stated that the strikes on Kyiv are primarily intended to create a “media sensation” rather than serve any military purpose.

Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky drew attention to this after analyzing a segment of the broadcast.

In one of the remarks, it was claimed that there are allegedly “no significant military targets” in Kyiv, so Russian strikes are primarily intended to spread disinformation.

According to Kazansky, such statements effectively confirm what Ukraine has been saying since the start of the full-scale war: massive missile attacks on Ukrainian cities are aimed primarily at terrorizing the civilian population, rather than achieving military objectives.

The journalist noted that such statements can be viewed as a public admission of the true purpose of the Russian shelling, since the propagandists themselves acknowledge the absence of significant military targets in the capital and explain the attacks as a desire to achieve a “media effect.”

Five years of terror have yielded no results for Russia. Strikes on civilian infrastructure have not changed the situation on the front lines. Instead, Ukraine continues to ramp up production of drones and missiles and deliver increasingly devastating strikes against military and economically vital targets on Russian territory

Denis Kazansky
journalist

In his view, terrorizing the civilian population only strengthens the resistance of Ukrainians and does not bring the war any closer to an end.

As a reminder, the Russian Ministry of Justice recently published on its official website the Nazi film “Hitler – the Liberator,” created during World War II for residents of occupied Soviet territories.

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    • Iryna Mazipchuk
      Iryna Mazipchuk

      managing editor

      She studied at the School of Journalism at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv. She has been working in journalism since 2011. She has worked for the television channels Channel 5, PravdaTUT, STB and ZIK.

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