Propaganda newspapers present how Russia promoted annexation in Kharkiv. Over the months Russian troops occupied the northeastern Ukrainian metropolis of Izyum, puppet authorities usually distributed propaganda newspapers to residents, pushing a story of normalcy and unity at the same time as houses and infrastructure have been demolished, shops have been looted and civilians struggled to search out primary provisions to outlive.
A trove of the Russian-language newspapers, offered to The Washington Put up by a resident who stated he saved them “for historical past,” paints a surreal model of occasions on the bottom operating in close to whole contradiction to the narrative from the Ukrainian authorities in Kyiv, Siobhán O’Grady and Sergii Mukaieliants report, and to accounts from residents who survived the violent takeover of the town in March.
Mary Ilyushina contributed to this report.
