Paul Goble
Staunton,
December 25 – On Western Christmas when too few outside of Moscow and Kyiv are
paying close attention, the Moscow media has filled up with stories that the
Ukrainian military is preparing to launch a chemical weapons attack against the
breakaway regions of Ukraine’s Donbass. Yandex news lists 82 such stories as of
1400 EST.
All
of the stories rely on a report from Eduard Basurin, the deputy chief of the
popular militia of the DNR (youtube.com/watch?v=XcIbdfSLLGI),
and almost without exception they appear to have been written or broadcast to
stir up anti-Ukrainian hysteria. (For
examples, see.)
rg.ru/2018/12/25/poezd-s-toksichnym-veshchestvom-zametili-pod-doneckom.html,
gazeta.ru/politics/2018/12/25_a_12107827.shtml,
новости-донбасса.ru-an.info/новости/представитель-армии-днр-в-красногоровку-каратели-завезли-бочки-с-химическим-отравляющим-веществом/
and m.lenta.ru/news/2018/12/25/nanuxalis/
There is no other confirmation of
Basurin’s claims. What makes this media explosion of charges against Ukraine
especially worrisome, as Pavel Felgengauer has pointed out, is that Russian
officials often charge others in advance with doing exactly what Moscow is
planning to do itself (windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2018/12/both-russia-and-ukraine-ready-for-new.html).
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