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Russia lashes out at US/UK 'war propaganda'
The spokesperson for Moscowโs Foreign Ministry says London and Washington are breaking international law
The US and Britain are currently engaging inillegal war propaganda, prohibited by the UNโs International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Sunday.
Writing on her Telegram channel, Zakharova accused the West of breaking the treaty, signed in New York in 1966, which mandates sanctions against countries inciting war and hatred.
โWhat we are seeing now is warpropaganda in its purest form,โ Zakharova said, accusing London and Washington of provoking violence by supplying arms to Ukraine, while also sending over instructors and holding military exercises.
โThe US and the UK have pulled out a tool from their stash that they have been keeping for a good half-century. And now they are waving it around like a club, supportingcontrolled hysteria through CNN, Bloomberg, and British tabloids, thereby influencing public opinion in their countries,โ she continued.
According to Zakharova, the covenant was signed during the height of the Cold War as a means of averting any chance of serious conflict. In her opinion, both the USSR and Russia have since โabandonedโ the practice of war propaganda, but the UK and US havenโt.
In recent months the US has accused Russia of placing more than 100,000 soldiers near its border with Ukraine, with some believing this is a sign of an impending military incursion. This claim has been repeatedly denied by the Kremlin, and has also been played down by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
This weekend, the US and dozens of other nations announced they were to begin evacuating its diplomats from Kiev.The Ukrainian authorities have condemned these moves and continued to urge citizens not to panic.
https://www.rt.com/russia/549286-us-uk-war-propaganda/