Donetsk warns of another fake video that nationalists have staged in Mariupol

DONETSK, March 16. /ST/. The Donetsk People’s Republic’s militia has obtained evidence of more video and photo fakes in Mariupol, the militia’s spokesman Eduard Basurin said on Wednesday.

 

“Evidence has been obtained of another fake video  in Mariupol staged by the Ukrainian nationalists. This time the Ukrainian army’s command was tasked with discrediting the Russian forces by demonstrating to the Western public what looks like a mass grave of civilians allegedly killed as a result of artillery bombardments and air strikes in the course of the special military operation,” the Donetsk People’s Militia said on its Telegram channel.

 

Basurin said that trenches had been dug on the territory of Mariupol’s old city cemetery where the remains of Ukrainian soldiers and nationalists, killed as a result of hostilities, were brought to be buried in civilian disguise. Then, “according to the plot the Ukrainian army’s center of psychological operations made photos and videos of what has been presented as a mass burial of up to 1,300 bodies,” Basurin said.

 

He stressed that the fake content had been distributed among foreign mass media.

 

“We do not rule out that a similar scenario may be used in other Ukrainian cities, where Ukraine’s nationalist units hold civilians hostage by force,” Basurin said.

 

Earlier on Wednesday, the Donetsk militia’s spokesman said that Mariupol’s civilians still had no chance of using the humanitarian corridor to leave the city, where clashes were continuing and residential areas were being cleared of pockets of resistance. There where the DPR forces have a firm foothold civilians have begun to be evacuated.

 

Source: TASS