Comment of the Russian Embassy’s Press Service on ABC 7.30 Interview with the Russian Ambassador Dr Alexey Pavlovsky
Some time ago ABC’s 7.30 requested an interview with the 🇷🇺 Russian Ambassador Dr Alexey Pavlovsky citing the need for the Australian public to have a more balanced vision of the Ukrainian crisis. Assurances were provided that the interview would be run in full with the usual editing for clarity and time.
Quite predictably, 7.30 didn’t respect its commitments. The version of the pre-recorded interview that was run on 20 March, while allowing plenty of time for virtue signaling on the part of the presenter, left out several important points made by the Ambassador.
Among the cut-outs were:
▪️Examples of war crimes committed by the Kiev regime, including indiscriminate shellings of civilians in Donbas with 155 mm ammunition,
▪️A reference to the well-known 2016 episode when the Prosecutor General of allegedly “sovereign” Ukraine was sacked at the instruction of the then US Vice-President Biden,
▪️ The staged “Bucha massacre” with no official list of alledged victims available after months of investigation.
By the way, none of these points were substantially challenged in the comments obtained by 7.30 from the 🇺🇦 Ukrainian Ambassador to Australia Mr Vasyl Miroshnychenko. His comments are basically about imploring Australians not to believe just anything the Russian Ambassador might say.
However, one thing is noticeable. Mr Miroshnychenko refrained from explicitly denying that Australia supplied ammunitions could indeed be used to kill innocent civilians in Donbas.
But that’s certainly not a topic 7.30 would be interested in.
Responses from Ukraine’s ambassador to Australia, Vasyl Myroshnychenko
Ferguson that Australia’s decision to supply military equipment to Ukraine would protract the war.
What’s your response?
The war would end tomorrowifRussia simply withdrew to the borders it has illegally crossed to invade a peaceful and smaller neighbour, and practice ethnocide against its people. If it does not do so, the fastest way to end the war, achieve peace and return stability to the world and Australia, is to help Ukraine be victorious in the coming months.
Ukraine is very grateful for Australia’s supportofsovereignty, democracy and the rule of law. We fight for the same values against an out-of-control, terroristic Russian regime ruled by an indicted war criminal.
The Russian Ambassador also claimed that Australia was planning to supply Ukraine with munitions, specifically 155mm shells, that could be used against innocent civilian populations in the Russian occupied areas of Donbas, part of a pattern he claimed of the Ukraine army targeting civilians.
This is pure propaganda from the Ambassador. He, like all cowardly Russian officials, lie on an industrial scale. Nearly every word they say is an utter lie. As recently admitted by the Russian military high command, propaganda is and has been an official weapon of war in Russian military doctrine for decades. Nothing that the Ambassador says or alleges can in any way be believed. He cannot lie straight in bed.
Russian propaganda exploits Western practices and institutions. For example, the concept of ‘two sides of the story” Russia knows it can put out propaganda and lies, but that they will still get a run in the Western media and thereby achieve a legitimacy that lies simply do not merit. It’s about creating an alternative reality where nothing is true and therefore the most heinous acts against humanity become possible.
There is no equivalence between a fire and the firemen who seek to put it out.
Dr Pavlovsky also said that Russia considered China’s statement ona political settlement “interesting.” He says the Russian government will consider it thoroughly. Is the Ukrainian government open to considering China’s peace plan?
When Russia talks about peace, it’s an admission that it has already been defeated in its attempt to completely destroy Ukraine, Ukrainians, and Ukrainian democratic statehood.
Any so-called ‘peace’ that involves Ukrainian citizens being forced to live in Russian-occupied territories – territories gained through illegal forceof arms, brutality and documented war crimes -is a death sentence for those citizens and therefore unpalatable. We know this from the mass murderers and mass rapesofBucha and many other communities that were occupied by Russian forces.
President Zelenskyy has put forward a 10 Point Peace Formula which is being supported by the international community, including Australia.
Dr Pavlovsky also said Ukraine was not a sovereign country on the eve of the invasion because it didn’t put the interest of its citizens first. Do you have a response?
This is again pure propaganda from the Ambassador. He, like all Russian officials, lie on an industrial scale. Nearly every word they say is an utter lie. As recently admitted by the Russian military high command, propaganda is and has been an official weapon of war in Russian military doctrine for decades. Nothing that the Ambassador says or alleges can in any way be believed. He cannot lie straight in bed.
Since its independence from the USSR- or quasi-Russian empire- Ukraine has democratically elected successive Presidents including President Zelenskyy – whereas the indicted war criminal Putin has ruled Russia as a dictator for 22 years. It is repulsive for the Ambassador to speak of the interests of Ukrainians since his regime has unilaterally and without provocation killed and injured some 20,000 Ukrainian civilians, deported thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia for ‘re-education’, committed countless war crimes for which its leader is now indicted by the ICC, and destroyed thousands of schools and hospitals.
The Ambassador would do better to consider the interestsofhis fellow Russians – some 150,000 of which have been sent to their needless deaths by the regime that he spouts propaganda for. What does the Ambassador have to say to mothers in Dagestan and Buryatia where 60 out of 100 young men recruited have died in combat?
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Resources:
https://t.me/RusEmbAu/1781
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23718736-responses-from-ukraines-ambassador-to-australia-vasyl-myroshnychenko
