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Fake news published by Swedish newspaper Expressen
On June 27, 2022, Swedish media outlets hurried to reprint the Kiev regime’s fake news about the alleged “Russian attack” on a shopping mall in Kremenchug. Johan Ronge, a correspondent of the evening newspaper Expressen who contributed a piece titled “Russian attack on shopping mall: At least 1,000 people inside,” quoted outrageous statements by Vladimir Zelensky: “Russia continues to punish ordinary people for its impotence. It’s pointless to expect adequacy or humanity from it.”
The Swedish media outlets, which claim to be “free,” did not bother to provide comments by Russian officials, although the next day Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said the following during a briefing: “On June 27, in Kremenchug (Poltava region), the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a high-precision air attack at hangars with armament and munitions delivered by the USA and European countries at Kremenchug road-machinery plant. (…) The detonation of the stored munitions caused a fire in a non-functioning shopping centre next to the facilities of the plant.”
The groundless allegations that Russia is deliberately targeting civilian facilities were laid bare by President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. Their statements were posted immediately on the Russian Embassy’s social media accounts. But the Swedish media only made note of the statement about “ten people killed and 40 wounded” in a “missile attack,” which head of the Poltava Region Military Administration Dmitry Lunin made.
Despite the obvious discrepancy between the facts and the Kiev regime’s statements made to rekindle Western interest in Ukraine, the Swedish media promptly took up the “trendy” Russophobic news in the best “democratic” traditions and in full disregard of the Russian position.
https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/kopcentrum-med-1-000-civila-traffat-av-rysk-robot/
Swedish tabloid blames Russia for creating the food crisis
In the July 6 issue of Aftonbladet with the headline yelling: “Putin’s new plan – to cause terrible famine,” journalist Nora Fernstedt claims that the President of Russia allegedly plans to kill the world by famine “to win a war in Europe.” In this article, she refers to US historian Timothy Snyder.
The arguments of the above professor are based on groundless accusations, for example, the collective West’s well-publicised accusation that Russia is blocking Ukrainian ports to prevent food exports. According to Timothy Snyder, Putin’s secret plan is to destroy Ukraine as a functioning state, provoke migration flows from North Africa and the Middle East (that depend on Ukrainian grain) and conduct a propaganda campaign blaming the Kiev regime for every misdeed.
In a June 9, 2022 infographic, the Russian Foreign Ministry convincingly refuted similar fake claims.
(https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/evropejskij-souz-es/1817028/?lang=en)
Thoughtlessly reprinting fantasies that have nothing to do with reality, local journalists ignore the fact that Russia had nothing to do with unleashing the food crisis. Having received instructions from above to make these ungrounded allegations, they stubbornly refuse to see that the threat of famine is being created by European and American functionaries. The latter are deliberately disrupting logistics chains in their bid to impose sanctions against “an aggressor” but these sanctions are hitting their own compatriots.
The Swedish establishment artificially exaggerating the “Russian threat”
On July 8, Sweden’s Aftonbladet newspaper published bombshell statements by Michael Claesson, Lieutenant General of the Swedish Armed Forces, who said that even though most of Russia’s military capabilities are “engaged in the offensive war in Ukraine,” Russia still has resources in the Baltic Sea region that “could be used against Sweden.”
This fantasy scenario that the officer describes included Russian attempts to sever maritime connections with Sweden. In a worst-case scenario, a missile is to be fired at a “target devoid of any military significance or population.” Apparently, for a more intimidating effect, the article is dressed up with a photograph of a shopping centre in Kremenchug after a missile attack the collective West is blaming on Russia.
The reporter, John Granlund, who quoted the high-ranking army officer, seemed to forget that the only “generator” of threat in the Baltic Sea region is official Stockholm. On May 16, commenting on Sweden’s decision to apply for NATO membership, the Russian Foreign Ministry unambiguously pointed out that “NATO membership will not enhance Sweden’s security if only because nobody is threatening the country. However, it will definitely lead to the loss of its sovereignty in foreign policy decision-making.”
All that’s left to do is express regret that so-called “independent” journalists are finally losing touch with reality in their madness, desperate to maintain the Russophobic policy unleashed by the collective West and deliberately imposed on their own citizens rather than admitting that it was not Russia that created the “threat.”
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