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From the Guardian feed today:
A gigantic pro-Russian mural realized by an Italian street artist on a bombed-out building in occupied Mariupol has sparked a row in Italy with the artist accused of plagiarism and spreading the Kremlin’s false information on the conflict in Ukraine.
On 11 July, Italian street artist Ciro Cerullo, known as Jorit, announced on his Instagram profile that he had completed a mural in the devastated Ukrainian city. The mural features the little girl with the colours of the flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in her eyes. Behind her, bombs with the word “Nato” are falling.
“They lied to us about Vietnam, they lied to us about Afghanistan, they lied to us about Iraq, and now I have proof: they are also lying to us about Donbas”, Jorit wrote in his post on Instagram. ‘’Be wary of those who would like to give us morals, their hands are covered in blood.’’
In an interview with Giornale Radio, Jorit said he had painted “a living little girl from Donbas who spent her first years in Mariupol surrounded by war”.
However, a number of users on Instagram and Twitter pointed out the striking resemblance to a photograph that appeared on the 2018 cover of the Australian photography magazine Capture, realised by Australian photographer Helen Whittle with the subject being her daughter, the very same little girl allegedly used as a model by Jorit in Mariupol.
As noted by Valigia Blu, an Italian non-profit independent fact-checking and debunking website focusing on journalism, “before the full-scale Russian invasion there was a mural dedicated to a Ukrainian girl from Mariupol, Milana Abdurashytova.’’
“In January 2015, she was hit by a missile strike launched by pro-Russian separatist forces, and she lost her mother and a leg” reports Valigia Blu. “Three years later, to commemorate Milana Abdurashytova’s story, street artist Sasha Korban dedicated a mural to her on the facade of a building on Prospekt Myru. But after the occupation, the Russians covered it up. For the Ukrainians — and the legitimate administration of Mariupol — the occupiers are “trying to erase the 2015 tragedy from the memory of the city’s residents”.
Soon after the Russian invasion – in late February – Mariupol was one of the first major cities to be encircled. Viewed as a key Kremlin objective, the city was the scene of a siege that the Red Cross has defined as “apocalyptic”. The outskirts of the city became the site of a mass grave, and the bodies of many more men, women and children were either dumped in the streets or remain buried beneath the rubble.
As always, these people are "useful idiots" for Putin's regime, they bolster and support Putin's disinfo and propaganda.
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Hi all, is the "Telegraph" a traditionally anti Ukrainian paper or is there a feeling setting in in the media that the Ukrainian counter offensive has been a failure thus far ?
Dont get me wrong, I'm 100% behind the Ukrainians and their war against the scum that is Russia but its disconcerting to see a number of headlines like the ones below in recent days online.
Has the counter offensive been a failure up to now, in your opinion ?
I'm reading about these "Probing attacks" for weeks now but the Russian defenses seem to have been under estimated, with Ukrainians not able, up to now, to achieve any relevant breakthrough.
The Ukrainians are fighting with one arm tied behind their backs against the Orcs.
Its obvious they are better equipped, better trained and more cohesive as a fighting force than the Russians are but the drip feed and stalling from the west seems to have given the Orcs the upper hand with lots of time given to them to prepare for the counter offensive, whilst the west decided whether to give Ukr Tanks, F16s, long range missiles etc etc etc.
The equipment given this far to the Ukrainians is mostly suitable when it is complimented by sufficient air cover, but there basically is none...The western strategists in the US \ NATO etc all know this and would never allow their forces attempt such breakthroughs as Ukr is attempting without air cover, yet.. they expect the Ukrs to be able to do it ?
Its all gone very strange and ones starting to think that the US in particular, under Biden, is doing one of two things.....A. Using the "expendable" Ukr troops as cannon fodder in order to diminish over time Russians military capabilities or B. Biden is genuinely "Afraid" of Putin and the possibility that if NATO "Upsets" Putin too much, the war will escalate into a much broader and globally serious war.
To me, and boy could I be wrong, those two possibilities can be the only 2 reasons we're seeing this war continue in its current vein.
Throw in a couple of miscalculations on the US \ NATOs part and we could indeed see Ukr having to concede land to the Orcs, irrespective of what bluster and defiance may emanate from Kyiv....the autumn is fast approaching, Ukr has not taken back anywhere near the land they and the rest of us had hoped they would have by mid July and a slowdown come the bad weather again will only allow the Russians dig even deeper to hold those lines.
This is not a pretty picture for either side, but in my opinion, and I speak only for myself, I think we're at a very dangerous junction in this conflict, where time is quickly running out and if nothing substantial is gained within the next couple of months, this war will turn in to that stalemated attritional conflict we'd all hoped would not materialise, but even more dangerous, is how long the west will continue to back Ukr in such a protracted conflict before war fatigue, home audience discontent and financial issues become catalysts for mind changes in western powers
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