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Top Western media outlet deletes video critical of Ukraine

Germany’s Der Spiegel removes clip in which Azovstal evacuee criticized Ukraine.

Citing “discrepancies in content,” the German magazine Der Spiegel has removed a video showing the testimony of an evacuee from Mariupol’s ‘Azovstal’ factory, a stronghold of the neo-Nazi Azov militants and other Ukrainian fighters.

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The woman in the video had revealed that her family were basically being lied to, held hostage, and used as human shields by the Ukrainian militants.

Another German outlet, Junge Welt, noticed the deletion on Thursday evening. According to JW, Der Spiegel published the three-minute video on Monday. It featured Natalia Usmanova, who had worked at Azovstal before the conflict and sheltered there with her husband and children.

In the recording, Usmanova tells reporters that Azov militants “kept us in the bunker” for two months and did not allow her family to leave using the humanitarian corridors established by Russian troops.

“They hid behind the fact that they are supposedly concerned about our safety,” Usmanova said, according to a German translation, adding that her family was repeatedly yelled at to “Go back to the bunker!”

“Ukraine has died for me as a state,” Usmanova said at the end of her testimony.

Der Spiegel said it had obtained the video from Reuters, and that it was temporarily taken down “because of discrepancies in content that were subsequently discovered.” Asked to specify the alleged discrepancies by RIA Novosti, Der Spiegel said they were “still in the process of clarifying this issue.”

The video published by Reuters is only a minute long, however, and has Usmanova talking about the intensity of artillery fire and the difficult life inside the bunker. Both videos come from the same interview with multiple press outlets – including RIA Novosti, which has confirmed the authenticity of Usmanova’s remarks from the now-deleted Spiegel clip.

Instead of the video, the German magazine now features a photo of Usmanova in a bus with other civilians, taken by a RIA Novosti photographer on May 1.

Usmanova’s testimony directly contradicts claims by Azov militants and the government in Kiev that Russia is preventing the evacuation of civilians from the Azovstal complex. Moscow has repeatedly opened humanitarian corridors from the area. The UN announced that another 500 civilians have been evacuated from the plant in the night between Thursday and Friday.

Russia attacked the neighboring state in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

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  1. Many of the so called civilians in the Azov steel factory are families of neo-nazi Azov battalion. These are Ukranians from the West part of Ukrain who moved to control the russian speaking population in Maiupol after 2011. Tanks rolled in and the city was taken over by the neo-nazis after 2011, and they also brought their families. There are also civilians who were taken as human sheild, and not surprising they speak out.

    MSM lies to the sky on the Ukranian issue. A British lad exposes these MSB bullshit (lies) regularly on YouTube
    https://m.youtube.com/c/iEarlGreytv/videos

  2. ♦ Selon certaines indiscrétions, des officiers français, britanniques et d’autres pays se trouveraient avec les nazis d’azov dans les bunkers d’Azovstal ..

  3. A Polish journalist tried to provoke the Russian ambassador after he was assaulted with red paint in Warsaw yesterday.
    “You are covered in the blood of the Ukrainian people, which this paint symbolizes, how do you feel?” the Polish journalist began.
    “I am covered in syrup,” replied Sergey Andreev.
    – “But it symbolizes blood…”
    “It symbolizes theater. The theater here and the theater in Bucha,” the ambassador replied.

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