Citing “discrepancies in content,” the German magazine Der Spiegel has removed a video showing the testimony of an evacuee from Mariupol’s ‘Azovstal’ factory, a stronghold of the neo-Nazi Azov militants and other Ukrainian fighters.
The woman in the video had revealed that her family were basically being lied to, held hostage, and used as human shields by the Ukrainian militants.
Another German outlet, Junge Welt, noticed the deletion on Thursday evening. According to JW, Der Spiegel published the three-minute video on Monday. It featured Natalia Usmanova, who had worked at Azovstal before the conflict and sheltered there with her husband and children.
In the recording, Usmanova tells reporters that Azov militants “kept us in the bunker” for two months and did not allow her family to leave using the humanitarian corridors established by Russian troops.
“They hid behind the fact that they are supposedly concerned about our safety,” Usmanova said, according to a German translation, adding that her family was repeatedly yelled at to “Go back to the bunker!”
“Ukraine has died for me as a state,” Usmanova said at the end of her testimony.
Der Spiegel said it had obtained the video from Reuters, and that it was temporarily taken down “because of discrepancies in content that were subsequently discovered.” Asked to specify the alleged discrepancies by RIA Novosti, Der Spiegel said they were “still in the process of clarifying this issue.”
The video published by Reuters is only a minute long, however, and has Usmanova talking about the intensity of artillery fire and the difficult life inside the bunker. Both videos come from the same interview with multiple press outlets – including RIA Novosti, which has confirmed the authenticity of Usmanova’s remarks from the now-deleted Spiegel clip.
Instead of the video, the German magazine now features a photo of Usmanova in a bus with other civilians, taken by a RIA Novosti photographer on May 1.
Usmanova’s testimony directly contradicts claims by Azov militants and the government in Kiev that Russia is preventing the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal complex. Moscow has repeatedly opened humanitarian corridors from the area. The UN announced that another 500 civilians have been evacuated from the plant in the night between Thursday and Friday.
Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.
The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.
Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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‘Discrepancies’. That’s rich since western MSM will print ANYTHING that the pro-Kiev Ukrainians say. Remember the ‘ghost of Kiev’, who single handedly shot down the entire Russian air force? There were no concerns over that fabrication.
Like the late Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn stated, why the World doesn’t know, get the TRUTH; ‘ Because the World M.S.M. is in the barbaric-bloody hands of the Perpetrators, Enemies of Mankind!’
Finally i can say that my countryman, the one in the secretariat of the United Nations did a good job! He helped resquing some hostages from the Azovstal that the Nazi´s had held and with the presence of the U.N, they had to release.
Lies are very common. I visit Ukrainian websites: there is no news from Russia. They don’t know anything. 90% of Ukrainians still think that NATO is at the walls of the Kremlin. I was on Red Square in Moscow yesterday. I saw Putin’s parade and motorcade. That was awesome!
Congrats, i hope one day i could be seeing it live.
It should be painfully clear that the American public is being guided to a single narrative that will call for war with Russia. Any war with Russia will automatically enact the draft. The Disinformation Governance Board is created to get ahead of any dissension. Making sure the calls for peace are never heard and prevent stories of mass casualties from discouraging Americans from sending their boys into a meat grinder. But more importantly, cover up the Zionist role behind the movement to war and their scheme for global dominance through the destruction of Europe and America.
Problem is, a war with Russia would go nuclear within hours. That is the true intent of Zionists of all stripes, Christian and otherwise.
The American way. I started to realize it after the 300 foot wide plane left a 12 foot wide hole in the Pentagon. The government took all the video recordings from private cameras and showed only a few frames of a missile. The flight in Pennsylvania berried itself underground, but not before leaving a red terrorist cotton bandana for all to see, but nothing else. The US has such sheep, it is stories for fools.
After at least two decades of MSM lies and propaganda, who is surprised by this? The Zionist plan to make an end of the USA as we know it is well underway. A catastrophic war with Russia, coming right up.
The last two decades of MSM lies and propaganda were where more the lies and propaganda was them increased but that not started there , they start at least 60 year ago. The worse of last decades is the no return serious brainwash observed in lastest generations which is more evident in the more younger people.
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