Along with the military aggression of the Russian Federation is waging an information war.
From the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine Russia's occupiers have killed more than 20 journalists and destroyed more than 100 regional media outlets in Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
, turning them into an “information ghetto”, according to the Foreign Ministry.
“The invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops on February 24 marked a new stage of brutal repression against independent journalism in Ukraine. In more than two months, Russian invaders have killed more than 20 Ukrainian and foreign journalists. More than a hundred regional media in the temporarily occupied territories were forced to stop working due to threats, destruction of editorial offices, inability to work under temporary occupation, “the statement said.
The Foreign Ministry also reminded that a recent victim of Russian aggression was Radio Liberty journalist Vira Girich, who was killed in a house in the center of Kyiv where a Russian missile hit her.
“Russia committed this crime during a visit to Ukraine. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which showed his true attitude to international institutions and the basic principles of international law, “the Foreign Ministry said.
Along with Russia's military aggression, it is waging an information war. Russia's list of crimes against the media in Ukraine includes the murder and abduction of journalists, the shelling and seizure of TV towers, and hacking attacks on information sites.
“Ukrainian cities occupied or surrounded by Russia are isolated from the Ukrainian information space, where Ukrainian broadcasting and the work of national Internet operators are blocked,” the Foreign Ministry said.
channels used for even greater information expansion, justifying Russia's invasion and inciting ethnic hatred.
The Foreign Ministry stressed that Ukraine, together with international partners, is coordinating efforts to combat Russian propaganda and disinformation.
The Foreign Ministry called on the international community to expand sanctions against Russian media that spread propaganda and disinformation. “The media of the aggressor state must be cut off from the possibility of distorting the facts of Russia's war against Ukraine,” the ministry said.
In addition, the Foreign Ministry thanked Ukrainian and international journalists who, in difficult conditions, often risking their lives, work in combat zones to tell the truth about Russia's war crimes in Ukraine.
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Earlier, it was reported that the State Committee of Ukraine for Television and Radio Broadcasting recorded 243 crimes of Russian aggressors against Ukrainian journalists and media in 16 regions of Ukraine. Russia has committed the most crimes in Kyiv and the region. These include killings, injuries, disappearances, abductions, shelling of journalists and TV towers, threats, cybercrime .
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