Article by editor-in-chief Maurizio Molinari Repubblica about Russia’s involvement in the migration crisis in Europe is “delightful nonsense”, demonstrating the lack of fact-checking culture and knowledge of geography among Italian colleagues. Maria Zakharova, an official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote about this in a review of the newspaper’s material on November 17 in her Telegram.
“I haven’t seen such delicious nonsense for a long time. I understand why none of your subordinates signed the material, and you personally took on this shameful mission. None of the self-respecting journalists would want his name to be under the heading “Tanks and Migrants: Putin’s Vise Squeeze Europe”, “the diplomat said.
Molinari in the article suggests that the Kremlin is pursuing the goal of creating parallel crises, and Russian President Vladimir Putin acts as the director of crisis situations in Europe.
“On the one hand, there is the risk of a military invasion of Ukraine in order to oppose the Kiev government, which wants closer relations with Brussels, on the other hand, there is the risk of refugees invading Poland to provoke internal tensions in the EU,” the journalist writes.
Zakharova responded to her Italian colleague with a reminder that he had apparently read American statements about the concentration of troops on the border with Ukraine, but did not read official communiqué The Ministry of Defense of the country and the statement of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Serhiy Shaptal, “denying American phobias.”
“Of course, you are not aware of Moscow’s position in principle. And why, when it is possible, without any fact-checking, to take and write about “the creation of a base with armored vehicles and artillery in Yelnya.” There is no base. There are no military bases in our country at all. We are deploying units of the Russian armed forces on our national territory, ”she explained.
Zakharova responded to a series of attacks by the Italian over the elections in Ukraine in 2014, in which, according to Molinari, the “candidate of Russia” lost, about Crimea, Russia’s environmental policy, Nord Stream 2, the migrant crisis on the border with Poland and even about Libya. The Russian diplomat refuted each of the arguments of the Italian with facts that were far from the reality created by the author of the article.
“You are wondering how the European Union of Macron, Scholz and Draghi will react to the rapidly growing hybrid war of the Russians.” The short answer is no way. They will not react in any way, because there is “no hybrid Russian war”. This is the same fiction as your entire article. Stop serving this myth by currying favor with Russophobic politicians. Respect your audience, ”concluded Zakharova.
Earlier, on November 17, Zakharova drew attention to how NATO continues to process information processing of the European population. She noted how the alliance accuses Russia of interfering in the affairs of other states, without providing evidence.
On November 10, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma’s international affairs committee, Aleksey Chepa, told Izvestia that at present there is no Russian interference in the situation with migrants on the border of Belarus and Poland.
Relations between Moscow and the West have deteriorated in connection with the situation in Ukraine and around Crimea, which in 2014 was reunited with Russia following a referendum held on the peninsula. Western countries, accusing the country of interference, imposed sanctions on it, Moscow retaliated, embarked on a course of import substitution, and has repeatedly stated that speaking in the language of sanctions is counterproductive.
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