Ukraine war: ceasefire in Oleshky

Peter Pomerantsev, executive editor of The Reckoning Project, an organisation dedicated to documenting war crimes, warns in The Kyiv Independent:

“This city of weak, hungry and vulnerable people will face a new danger as Oleshky slowly opens: under the pressure of living on the brink of death, they could become props for Russian propagandists attempting to rewrite the history of what happened in the city. … Key Russian media figures are already starting to spread the narrative that Russia is ‘rescuing’ the residents that it has been terrorising. … At moments like this it’s important that news media do not slide into bothsideism which credits well-known sources of disinformation with the same valency as more reliable sources.”