The New York Times has fallen into the trap of Russian propa

New York Times. Russian propaganda. Kursk region. Armed Forces of Ukraine

On 12 July, The New York Times published a report from the Kursk region of russia entitled ‘Landscape of Death: What Remains Where Ukraine Invaded Russia.’ This is a shameful example of unprincipled journalism that presents the opinions of international criminals as ‘the views of the other side.’ This does not seem to be a case where balance is needed to understand the essence of things and events. Is The New York Times planning to produce reports under the supervision of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or the Houthis, or from North Korea's decision-making centre?

What is important to understand:

russia is using every opportunity to spread the narrative of ‘Ukrainian atrocities,’ ‘Ukrainian Nazis,’ and the like in order to cover up its own war crimes against Ukraine. To this end, they willingly use ‘independent journalists’ who do not mind having coffee with armed criminals (terrorists, rapists, looters, and those who order murders). Last year, the Kremlin's special services already used the NYT in this way. But the editorial board decided to go further.

moscow is particularly active in spreading lies about ‘crimes committed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kursk,’ using fakes and manipulation to justify its aggression against Ukraine and dehumanise Ukrainians. We have previously published materials on this topic: Fake: Ukrainian soldiers shot local residents in the Kursk region and Journalists of the Washington Post refuted yet another russian fakeand Fake: The Ukrainian military uses Nazi symbols en masse

There is ample evidence that russian soldiers personally committed crimes in the aforementioned region against their own people. For example, on 1 February, russian troops carried out an air strike on a boarding school in the town of Sudzha, even though the russian command knew that there were civilians there preparing for evacuation. Everything was done to blame Ukraine and ‘sell’ the materials to ‘independent journalists’ again.

The NYT publication actually helps moscow promote its false narratives, mislead the international audience and continue its genocidal war against Ukraine, as well as its information aggression against NATO and the EU, sabotage and cyber attacks around the world.

As noted in the NYT, the author of the article visited the Kursk region accompanied by militants from the Akhmat unit, known for its war crimes, including torture and executions of civilians. Has the NYT really missed Al-Qaeda's ‘professional successes’?

Journalists must maintain a balance of opinions, but it is unacceptable to consider the victim and the aggressor simply as ‘two sides of the conflict.’ Could it be that the NYT believes that Hitler had grounds to destroy at least 50 million people in the 20th century?

"Whoever at The New York Times thought it wise to report alongside russian war criminals made the most foolish decision. This is not balance or “the other side of the story”. It is simply allowing russian propaganda to mislead the audience. It is sad to see Duranty-level* manipulation returning to the NYT," the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said.
At a time when the entire civilised world is trying to defend itself against ugly and aggressive russian propaganda, the criminal influence of kremlin agents on the governments and societies of independent states, and the unfolding of an unprecedented threat to democracy, The New York Times is hammering away at these efforts.
Based on materials from Stopfake.org

* Walter Duranty was an American journalist who headed the moscow bureau of The New York Times for 14 years, wrote many laudatory articles about the leaders of the Soviet empire, and denied the Holodomor in the countries occupied by moscow.

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