"Putin and his thugs are just trying to blame somebody else... It has happened before. There were blown-up houses, shootings, explosions, and they always blame others," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address.
  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    52·
    8 months ago

    as soon as i heard about the attack, i knew Russia would try to blame Ukraine, even before they did.

    • DontAskAboutUpdog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      8 months ago

      They are barely holding on. Russia fires 7x more shells than ukraine. The absolutely need and should get more support from the free world.

    • muntedcrocodile@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      8 months ago

      They are not absolutly winning that is russian propaganda to slow western support. Without the continue support from the west ukraine will fall.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/kyiv-independent-bias/

      Which actually makes me wonder: What do you mean with “source”? The Kyiv Independent doesn’t exactly have a track record of being uncritical of Zelensky, are you surprised that the journalists are not challenging his assessment? That they might, *gasp*, agree with him?

    • halva@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      they’re not a reliable source but there’s no reason for the ukrainian military or secret services to gun down a random concert in moscow

      murdering someone like vladlen tatarsky has rather obvious strategic value but this does not

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      The US Security Service has already confirmed the attacks were by ISIS, not that they were ever denying it.

      If Ukraine can get units that far behind the front line they’re not going to bother going after civilians are they?