Russian plane crash: Everything we know as Moscow and Kyiv dispute details
In any war, there is the physical fighting, and then there is the information war – an aspect of conflict that can make establishing facts more difficult.
Russia has accused Ukraine of bringing down a military transport plane it says was carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange. What is worth remembering is that Moscow has a long history of disinformation. Take the annexation of Crimea, which has been occupied by Russia since 2014 – the Kremlin denied that Russian soldiers were involved before eventually acknowledging their presence. There were also the statements around the shooting down of MH17 and the novichok poisonings in Salisbury.
Indeed, was launched on the false claim, often repeated since, that a “Nazi” regime in was putting Russian-speaking inhabitants of the country at risk.
