Alec Luhn in Moscow
While western media focuses on bombings and civilian
deaths, reports within Russia are very selective and defensive of Kremlin
When warplanes bombed a hospital in
rebel-held east Aleppo last week, causing rubble to fall on patients in the
intensive care unit, the deaths of yet more innocent people made
headlines in many countries.
But the
airstrike was not on the news agenda in Russia, where the media focused on the
Syrian government’s battle for the city, backed by
Moscow. “The Syrian air force conducted massive strikes on militants near
Aleppo,” read a headline from state
news agency RIA Novosti.
The story was
picked up by state news agency Tass and several other publications. Channel One
reported that Russian soldiers had delivered humanitarian
aid to “refugees from districts of Aleppo controlled
by terrorists”.
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