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Ukraine hits residential district in Russian city ahead of summit (www.rt.com)

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[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 6 points 1 day ago

rt.com as a news source for coverage on the Russo-Ukraine conflict? Are you serious?

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

How is that different feom posts talking about the qar citing ukraniains news?

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 3 points 1 day ago

Quite different. RT/Russia Today is a state-run thing, while the "Ukrainian news" that you are most likely referring to are private news agencies. You won't see such news in Russia Today about Russia: Kyiv Independent - Zelensky signs law destroying independence of Ukraine's key anti-corruption bodies, while they are being published in the "Ukrainian news"

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

In a war no matter who is the aggressor and who is the aggressed both will do propaganda, both would lie about causalities and who side has the upper hand. You post a link about how Ukraine media can criticize their president is internal affair which has nothing to do with the war

[-] kebab@endlesstalk.org 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I am aware of that. The thing with Kyiv Independent in particular (this is the most frequently posted "Ukrainian news") is that the Ukrainian government is not directly in control of what they write, unlike with RT. The problem with RT is that they publish fake news regularly while Kyiv Independent mostly just chooses to publish the news that show Ukraine in a good light but their articles stay factually correct. Examples of failed RT fact checks regarding the current conflict:

Fact Check: Did Russian Ka-52 Destroy Ukraine Barge Near Nuclear Plant?
RT: U.S. Special Envoy Says Russia Seeks to 'Freeze' Conflict in Eastern Ukraine To be clear, I do not support publishing the news from news agencies based in any of the countries involved in the conflicts (not just this one, same goes for Al Jazeera reporting on conflicts in the Arab world), but there is a difference between RT and the other media outlets. Both aren't reliable but RT is just at another level when it comes to "unreliable"