The strike having killed 12 civilians in Kyiv portrayed in the Kremlin as targeting military infrastructure

On the night of April 24, the Russian armed forces launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, which killed at least 12 and injured about 90 civilians according to official sources.

The Russian military used North Korean ballistic missiles and dozens of drones, many of which targeted several districts of Kyiv. The attack caused extensive damage to residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.

The propaganda machine claims hitting military targets

Channel One Russia, covering the large-scale airstrike, presented the destruction of residential areas and buildings as an attack exclusively on military infrastructure.

“A massive attack on the military infrastructure of Ukraine tonight. Numerous powerful blows thundered in Kyiv,” the commentator reported in a short story avoiding the fact of dozens of casualties.

At the same time, the Press Secretary of the Russian President, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the attack, claimed that the Russian armed forces continue to destroy exclusively military and “almost military” infrastructure.

Meanwhile, there are numerous images on the Internet and in the international press documenting the destruction of residential buildings and dozens of casualties.

The attacks by Russia even upset US President Donald Trump, and he expressed his discontent on his social media page.

He directly called on Putin to stop. This is the first time since being elected US president that Trump has criticized Putin and personally called on him to exercise restraint.

Thus, Russian propaganda continues to portray attacks on civilian infrastructure and civilians as strikes on military targets.

Nane Manasyan