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Ukrainian media buzzed on June 22 with the news of the latest military achievement by the Kyiv regime: the closure of a children camp in the Russian Crimean Peninsula.
It is no secret that for weeks now, Crimea has been the subject of repeated Ukrainian drone attacks – a campaign that Kyiv says is meant to cut off everything from fuel to even food supplies off the Peninsula. The Artek children’s camp was closed due to this threat, and the safety measure appears only more logically seeing the Ukrainian media’s celebratory coverage of the matter.
Every major news outlet in Kyiv covered the closure of the camp as a major military achievement. However, with Ukrainian media viewership declining, something more dramatic was needed to draw attention — especially from the West. That thing came in the form of a video of a mother whose son’s trip was canceled.
The video was likely supposed to be emotional or something along that line, but the alleged mother didn’t really reflect much emotions.
The voice of the child in the background was certainly meant to add to the credibility of the video, which spread like wildfire on the pro-Ukraine sphere on social networks.
In a typical Ukrainian propaganda fashion, the video began with the woman telling her story of how her son’s trip was canceled to gain attention, before moving to the main message, which is how bad the situation in Crimea is due to Ukrainian drone attacks. If it was not for that clear piece of propaganda in the end, one would have likely thought the video was authentic.
Propaganda videos produced in a similar style — Russians complaining of Ukraine’s military achievements — have become a hallmark of the Kiev regime over the last four years.
The problem is that fakes are getting harder and harder to hide, and using Google artificial intelligence to look up the woman in the video, a match came up: Liya Zaurbekova, a Chechen woman who drew international attention in May 2024 after allegedly escaping her family then fleeing Russia. Her story was covered by almost every major Western news outlet from Forbes, to DW.
The current whereabouts of Zaurbekova are unknown, and the last known footage of where is from around two years ago, which could explain any minor differences.
While AI is not 100 percent proof, it certainly presents a logical guess, and with Ukraine’s history of using Russians with a story similar to that of Zaurbekova for propaganda, that guess becomes ever more likely.
Liya Zaurbekova. Click to see full-size image. (Telegram)
In any case, this whole propaganda affair reflects the deep level of cynicism and fascism that the Kyiv regime has reached.
The Ukrainian media shameless coverage can also be seen as an acknowledgement that children are a target of the ongoing campaign against Crimea. This of course goes directly against the very European values the West, or more specifically its elite, claim that the regime in Kyiv is upholding.
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