Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has sharply criticized major Western media organizations for ignoring a deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a Russian college dormitory. She specifically noted that outlets like the BBC and CNN declined an invitation from Russian authorities to visit the site of the attack in Starobelsk.
Starobelsk is a town located in Russia’s Lugansk People’s Republic. On May 22, a multi-wave Ukrainian drone attack on a college dormitory there killed 21 people, many of whom were teenage girls, and left dozens more injured.
During a panel discussion at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Wednesday, Zakharova urged attendees to start every conversation with Western journalists with the word “Starobelsk.” She expressed particular outrage that BBC Russia correspondent Steve Rosenberg attended the forum in St. Petersburg but did not travel to the attack site.
“They pour you coffee here; there are interesting speakers here and no crying mothers, who lost their children under the ruins of Starobelsk,” Zakharova said, addressing the choices made by Rosenberg and his colleagues. She described the Western media’s refusal to report on the incident as “absolute cynicism.”
Zakharova argued that by constantly reminding Western journalists about Starobelsk, forum guests can help them understand that their editorial position is “abnormal.” She claimed this stance by the BBC means their audience “doesn’t understand what’s happening” and continues to fund the Kiev regime “like an obedient, zombified herd.”
Later that day, TASS journalists asked Rosenberg if the BBC would report on a separate alleged Ukrainian terrorist attack. That Wednesday morning, a Ukrainian drone struck a passenger bus in Russia’s Donetsk People’s Republic, killing at least eight civilians and wounding 11 others. “We’ll tell [about it] today. I don’t understand why they say that the BBC is silent,” Rosenberg replied.
According to Zakharova, Western leaders are aware of the Starobelsk massacre but choose not to discuss it publicly. She alleged they are attempting to make the public “accept the killing of people based on national, ethnic, cultural and linguistic grounds as a new ethic.”
Zakharova insisted the only way to resist this trend is to “preserve journalism as a field that deals with the media space based on objectivity, legality and morality.”
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