It’s poison, smears and anti-British propaganda

IT’S been years since the Russian state even vaguely pretended to be honest. By lying about an invasion, a genocide and a war, Moscow has perfected the art of deception to the point where the only correct action is to ignore what comes out of the Kremlin.

That said, Putin’s propaganda is pumped into homes across Britain by his official broadcaster Russia Today (RT).

During the early stages of Covid, the channel spread fear and panic, trying to tear apart our community and undermine our response.

When British firms discovered a vaccine, RT spread lies trying to convince people not to take it, costing lives.

Time and again, the Englishlanguage service has done its best to confuse and undermine Britons at times when clarity was so important. It’s not an information network. It’s a weapon against us.

Our media watchdog, Ofcom, should have banned RT. If it had, viewers would not have been exposed to a correspondent called Rory Suchet (who began his career as a pop music radio DJ), claiming to report from eastern Ukraine as he lied that Russian tanks were helping to ‘liberate’ the region and that the Ukrainians defending their homes were nationalists and neo-Nazi battalions.

The channel disgracefully allowed a Russian military commander to claim that the Ukrainian army was using civilians as human shields. They’re not.

Make no mistake, RT is trying to excuse the Kremlin for war crimes being committed by Putin.

It gives a platform to charlatans