The Swiss TV channel SRF airs anti-Russia report about Russia amassing troops on the border with Ukraine

The frenzy in the Western media around Russian-Ukrainian relations has reached boiling point, or rather the final stage of hysteria. They are churning out ever more absurd materials, but the Swiss TV broadcaster SRF took the cake by releasing a video report called Russia Pulls up Troops to Ukrainian Border.

“What’s going on at the Russian-Ukrainian border?” inquires a flashy intro to the video. A blood-red background is obviously intended to stir up interest and raise the degree of panic among its European viewers, who are frightened as it is.  

However, the audience is not going to get a clear answer to the question. Because the ensuing footage looks like a random video collection, the result of a Google search for “Russia winter military hardware.” 

“Russia amasses huge forces on the border with Ukraine,” the journalist claims. “The military equipment, including tanks, has been brought from Siberia thousands of kilometres away.”  

To illustrate, the Swiss video editing geniuses offer a mix of footage including, for some obscure reason, clips of a mixed arms formation training exercises in the Southern Military District.  

As he makes such loud claims to scare the Western public, the journalist is in fact referring to the Russian-Belarusian defensive exercise Union Resolve 2022 with the participation of some units from the Eastern Military District.  

DEFENSIVE. EXERCISE.

On the territory of the UNION STATE.

They heard the song but got it wrong. However, they managed to cook up yet another bogeyman story for an ignorant audience that has been fed such fakes for years.  

Our dear Swiss friends, this is beyond unprofessional. It is a medical diagnosis. If you want to make a report about the exercise, please inquire at the Russian Defence Ministry (you have already learned to borrow footage and use it out of context). They will teach you to use a map and give you the facts. They will tell you what testing DEFENSIVE potential is about.  

But SRF’s Russia correspondent David Nauer continues to heighten tension: “We just don’t know what the Kremlin wants. We don’t know if the war will break out.” We would like to advise Mr Nauer to get out of his shell, discover the internet and go to the kremlin.ru site. The President of Russia has repeatedly, patiently and in great detail (just for such journalists) spoken about our principled position.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also gives regular in-depth accounts of the Russian foreign policy approaches. By the way, his comments and interviews are translated into German. Just yesterday Sergey Lavrov said, clear as day, in an interview to four radio stations, “If it depends on the Russian Federation, there will be no war. We do not want wars.” So it is high time questions about whether there will be war are redirected to Washington, Brussels and Kiev.

For those under a rock. 

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