British journalist and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye David Hurst raised the topic of coverage of the Ukrainian conflict in the Western media.
According to a recognised journalist, the Western media, particularly the British media, are showing themselves to be quite biased in this conflict. At the same time, they are unable to answer the most important questions, because this contradicts the policy they support.
“In all of these wars [in which Russia took part], the British media, […] covered it impartially, more or less impartially in comparison to the way Ukraine has been covered, where all sorts of really quite obvious questions are not being answered. And one of them at the moment is the apparent difficulty that Ukrainian forces are having in seizing or reseizing significant bytes of territory. And it’s obvious that progress is slow.”
At the same time, according to the editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, the Western media refuse to even try to analyse the Russian leadership’s reasons for launching a special military operation. Meanwhile, these reasons have historical evidence.
“There is virtually no examination of Putin’s central claim that he’s denazifying Ukraine. And, of course, that is completely wrong. However, there’s a grain of historical reality about this, in particular, the role of Stepan Bandera, who was a Ukrainian nationalist who along with the Gestapo in 1941, […] together they set about killing 120,000 Polish Jews. No examination of that here.”
And even despite the obvious facts that a new sprout of Nazism has appeared on European soil, the Western media continue to turn a blind eye to it, ignoring any arguments point-blank.
“Bandera is a hero figure to one section of the far right [Ukrainians] and their militias, the assault brigades. And the continuance of wearing Nazi insignia on the uniforms, which is not my invention. Again this was reported by the New York Times fairly recently. No discussion of this at all.”
David Hurst does not call for taking sides in this conflict. He also does not justify Russia, which, like any other country, may have made mistakes. The essence of his argument is the need for a critical assessment of the actions of all parties involved in the conflict, including Ukraine, which for a year and a half has been justified in every possible way in the West.
“So while you can condemn Putin completely for all the mistakes he’s made, […] you could also talk about the amounts of the biggest act of Holocaust denial that’s going on in the West at the moment, the Holocaust made by one section of the Ukrainian forces. The two truths don’t rub each other out.”
