A Dutch journalist on the ground in Ukraine has an urgent message for the Western world: Stop believing the fake news and endless lies served up by mainstream media.
According to Sonja van den Ende, an independent journalist from Rotterdam, Netherlands, the mainstream media “lie continuously about everything just to implement their own agenda.”
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Unlike mainstream media hacks who are reporting on the war from their comfortable inner-city broadcast studios in Western capitals, Van den Ende is reporting from Ukraine and watching how the Russian military operation is unfolding on the ground and with her own two eyes.
Van den Ende says there are “only a handful” of Western journalists on the ground in the hotspot of Donbass, Ukraine, while the Western mainstream press is “rubber-stamping fake news” about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Disillusioned with mainstream media lies, Van den Ende travelled to the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and became an embedded reporter with the Russian army to see what is really happening in Ukraine.
The sound of shelling and explosion no longer frightens her. Seven years ago, van den Ende worked in Syria, months before the Russians stepped in at the request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and destroyed ISIS, changing the tide of the civil war. She says the parallels between the Western mainstream media coverage of the Syrian and the Ukrainian conflicts are striking.
“They lie continuously about everything just to implement their own agenda,” said Van den Ende. “Like in Syria, President Assad was ‘the murderer’ and now President Putin is ‘the butcher.’ They had used this script for many years in Iraq, Venezuela and [other] countries which don’t comply with their agenda; they need a bad “guy”. But they (media) are not even there on the ground, they can’t judge. Only a handful of journalists from the West are here: Graham Philips, Patrick Lancaster, Anne-Laure Bonnel and me.”
This is not the only striking parallel, according to the Dutch journalist. She has drawn attention to Kiev’s fake reports and “false flag” operations including the infamous Snake Island hoax, hype over Russia’s alleged “attack” on the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), the now-debunked story of Russia’s “strike” on a Mariupol hospital, and the most recent Bucha provocation.
Van den Ende says that Ukrainian claims and Western media disinformation resemble false flags by jihadists in Syria and the White Helmet’s staged “gas attacks”.
She specifically recalls the 4 April 2017 chemical provocation in Khan Sheikhun, Idlib, which was debunked by investigative reporters including Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh.
“The same happened in Bucha,” says the Dutch journalist. “Many witnesses are saying that the Russian army left on 30 March. Even the Ukrainian military who came in on 1 April didn’t report about corpses on the streets. This happened on 3 April, according to the Western media. Also, evidence is saying that the bodies had white armbands, the sign of the Russian army, the soldiers wear them. So the soldiers are killing the Russian Ukrainians? No way.”
Ukrainian Neo-Nazism is No Myth
Van den Ende talked to many Ukrainian civilians while travelling across Donbass. She says nearly everyone condemned Zelensky’s Kiev regime for prohibiting the Russian language and depriving them of many cultural and domestic human rights.
“The majority of the people whom I spoke with were very happy that the [Russian special] operation has started,” the Dutch journalist says. “Of course, nobody wants violence and war, but they have been suffering already eight years from the war, carnage and destruction by the Ukrainian forces. The worst were the Nazi battalions, who were fighting along with the regular army.”
Ukrainian neo-Nazism is not a myth, insists van den Ende. When she visited the Ukrainian port city of Odessa in 2016 and 2017 she noted the fascist sentiment which has been spreading across the nation since World War II.
The ideological successors of Stepan Bandera, the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the 14th SS-Volunteer Division “Galicia,” and the Nachtigall Battalion went underground during the Soviet period. However, after many years these forces have emerged from the shadows again and now the US, UK and EU are using them to destabilize Ukraine, she says.
The way these Western geopolitical actors are using the Nazis closely resembles the way Obama used ISIS to destabalize Syria and unseat Assad, says the journalist.
According to van den Ende, after carrying out a 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine, the minority of neo-Nazis seized power and have been terrorizing most of the eastern part of the country using vicious and cruel Nazi-style methods for the past eight years.
Feeling Protected at Long Last
The West is continuously trying to blame Russia for all the damage inflicted on Ukrainian villages and towns. However, Eastern Ukrainian eye-witnesses say that most of destruction in the civilian areas was caused by the retreating Ukrainian army and neo-Nazi formations, including the notorious Azov Battalions, according to the Dutch journalist. In addition to using civilian facilities as shields, the Ukrainian military are reported to have indiscriminately shelled the positions they left and ceded to the Russian forces.
To illustrate her point, van den Ende describes the shelling of a hospital in Volnovakha, in the Donetsk People’s Republic. The building was not bombed from the air, but attacked with grenades and rockets, she says, citing a Volnovakha resident.
The West claims it was bombed by the Russians, but as a lady told me, that she worked there all her life, and that the Ukrainian [military]–who were quartered in the hospital–shelled and destroyed the facility and her house, which was next to the hospital.
According to the Dutch journalist, Eastern Ukrainians are treated very well by the Russian army and regularly receive humanitarian aid in most locations. What’s more, the locals say that at long last they feel protected, she adds.
Ferocious battles between the Ukrainian armed forces and neo-Nazi battalions on the one side and the Russia-backed DPR and LPR militias on the other side left many houses ruined. However, the people of Donbass have not given up, highlights the journalist.
“As a woman said: ‘We are strong, we can rebuild it, for our children and grandchildren, to have peace,’” notes van den Ende.
Is Russia Losing an Information War?
Some observers suggest that Russia is losing the information war with the West. The Western Big Media machine is working day and night with the backing of Big Tech, while most Russian news outlets have been either censored or completely silenced in the Western countries.
“No, Russia is not losing the information war completely,” argues van den Ende. “I think it’s up to us, the handful of Westerners, to awaken the majority of Westerners who are still asleep and getting bombarded with fake news and made-up stories day by day.”
One should bear in mind that this conflict is being fanned by the Western politicians in the first place, says the Dutch journalist. According to her, the West did the exact same thing in Syria but ultimately lost that war.
The world is changing and the Western establishment has yet to reconcile itself to the emerging multipolar world order, according to van den Ende. She notes that Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined the beginning of this change in his 2007 Munich speech.
Although globalist elites opted to ignore his words at the time, it is now becoming obvious that a unipolar New World Order is gone for good, the journalist concludes.
Baxter Dmitry
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Zelensky is a clown doing the bidding of his masters. I love how he is egging on the world to get involved and all the idiots are buying in.
You love how things not happening are happening.
Obviously you didn’t read the article.
I’ve read the article. It doesn’t take much to realize that she is being allowed only to see the stuff Russia wants her to see. They are quite experienced at snowing people like her.
That’s what you’re basing it on? yes Russians are experts at propaganda, but so is U.S. I was in Russia in1977, I saw for myself and spoke to Russians there about alot of things. I was also in Ukraine same trip, We were told Nazis had been there since WW2, never left. In 2014, Nazis took over govt and they are running pedophile crimes/child sex trafficking/adrenachrome/drug trafficking etc. crime in Ukraine. They are a threat to Russia which is why Russia wants them gone and is clearing them out. There are only several journalists in Ukraine reporting to U.S about this but they are not boots on the ground, aren’t witnessing a damn thing. I’ve gotten reports from a number of people from various countries about this and it adds up with what I saw in Russia and have kept up with events in Russia since then. I’ve known a number of Russians who escaped communism and told me alot.
Nazis did not take over Ukraine. Taking that as true means you are beyond gullible. Ukraine has never been a threat to Russia either. Russia is, however, a threat to all its neighbors and Putin has proven that beyond doubt since 2008.
Russia is one of the most addicted countries in the world. Drug trafficking is beyond out of control there. Russia makes Ukraine look like an honest country. There are indications that Putin himself is a pedo. It’s past time for people like you to quit taking Putinazi agitprop uncritically.
Yes, the western media is entirely trustworthy.
As if Putin isn’t a known liar.
Sad but true !
That’s what happens if a Nation – instead of one of their own – elect a Chosen One to Lead their Country :-(((
market mulipulation by global infrastructure operations a backup plan to covid marketing and market mulipulations.Z is a employee of the 1%
send and spend has no end as the 1% lick thier chomps on the fallen souls on the battlefeild and american sends our lunch money to Zz& we watch our leaders pad thier pockets yet again
POOPaganda nee deep hoopla sells war for the 1% as the rich speed off to mars again and we go foodless again as all the cat food and dog food is gone from the wally markets again and we see our taxs buying profits for the war mongerSS
the article says “The way these Western geopolitical actors are using the Nazis closely
resembles the way Obama used ISIS to destabalize Syria and unseat Assad,
says the journalist.”
Assad is still in power, do some fact checking. BTW newspunch is just a controlled opposition site run by the CIA. THIS WEBSITE is used to track your comments and you.
So why are you here ?
Earning good bucks from Uncle Soros or reporting to the CIA ?
4,000 thumbs up for you! Thank you.
Thx !
And yet, oddly enough, this site is one of the few sites actually printing the truth. Are YOU the CIA tracking us? Just wondering.
Kyiv did not outlaw the Russian language as people keep claiming. The Neo-Nazi claim is old and stale and hasn’t been true of regular ukrainian forces. Azov was not originally part of teh forces structure, but it is now and the neo-Nazi leanings have been ended.
The stories she says have been debunked have not been debunked except in the sick minds of the Russians. The woman has simply become one more outlet for Putin’s agitprop.
Working for Uncle Soros ?
FYIO 😕
Hungary Blocked the Admission of Ukraine for the SAME REASON :
The AGGRESSIVE Ukrainianization of the Country with a policy HARSHER that what used to be in the Stalinist Era .
There were physical Assaults, Threatening Marches of the ” Non-Existent ” Neo-Fascist organizations and the building of the Cultural Centre set in fire .
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING – 8 September 2014
AI Index: EUR 50/040/2014
Ukraine: Abuses and war crimes by the Aidar Volunteer Battalion in the north Luhansk region.
Our findings indicate that, while formally operating under the command of the Ukrainian security forces combined headquarters in the region members of the Aidar battalion act with virtually no oversight or control, and local police are either unwilling or unable to address the abuses.
Some of the abuses committed by members of the Aidar battalion amount to war crimes, for which both the perpetrators and, possibly, the commanders would bear responsibility under national and international law.
For nearly 8 years
the international community has been blind to the mass murder, rape, torture,
ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Fascist battalions in East Ukraine.
Lindsey Graham knows this but chooses to politically blame Russia. It is
fascist to blame the victims for the many many crimes against humanity
committed against them .
Too bad that is nothing more than fabulism.
It was a nice try – but FACTS remain FACTS .
IF they were facts. Too bad they aren’t. It’s just another regurgitation of Putinazi agitprop.
So the Amnesty International is a Putinazy Organozation ?
Amnesty International is no more reliable than any other Soros supported organization. What she has done is simply regurgitate what she is allowed to see and that is nothing more than a set up.
Thank you for doing a Great Job for me !
Your Employer :
Uncle Soros
Your juvenile attempt at trolling is noted.
Your fervent struggle is hopefully noted ny by your Minder and you will get a pay rise .
You are either too naive to see the truth about this, or you are a troll or paid opposition. Which one is it?
I none of that. I’m simply an informed individual who doesn’t get snowed as easily as you.
I’ve been researching the deep state govt for over 25 yrs, every single day for hours every day. I also have family who were in politics, and told me alot that the public doesn’t know and a dad who was an advisor to a top president and passed on info to me. I’ve also been places where most people were afraid to go. And your experience, other than reading mainstream media?
I’ve held elective office and seen things from the inside. I know whereof I speak. I also don’t read the MSM.
You are the one who isn’t speaking truth.
You’re too ignorant to know what is truth and what isn’t. There is a reason KGB types dominate the Russian regime.
I think you are too ignorant to know what is truth. As I”ve said before, when I was in Ukraine in 1977, Nazis were still there. I remember reading about when Nazis took over govt in Ukraine in 2014, it was in numerous news places, in the REAL news not mainstream garbage.
Russia is overrun with Nazis. By comparison, they are nearly nonexistent in Ukraine. Moscow, as just one city, has been filthy with skinheads and people like the head of Wagner for years. Nazis didn’t take over in Kyiv. That’s is simply Putinazi agitprop. You simply get your trash from the Putinazi propaganda machine. It’s just as bad as the MSM. It’s hilarious to see you claim you aren’t getting garbage.
By the by, Putin defines a Nazi as any Ukrainian that doesn’t want to be Russian. I’d be wise to give more thought to where you are getting your info.
I remember reading back in 2014 that the Nazis had just taken control of the Ukraine govt. I was there in 1977 and we were told that the nazis had been there in Ukraine since WW2 they never left. But in 2014 they overtook the govt and have been causing destruction ever since. Putin came in to clean out the Nazis.
Thx !
The infos You gave is Highly Appreciated !
Thank you, glad I could help. Thank YOU for the info you’ve given, hope to see you here again in the future.
I spend more time on OANN and mostly on Newsweek – there I use another ID . . .
The media are dishonest manipulative and deceitful .And paid to be.
But it’s the Nazification of the west that has caused little socialist communities of sheep to all compliantly follow their gruppenfuhrer and obey every Word from their mouth 9f their “well respected members 9f the community ‘.
Like morons .
Lying? No. Brandon propaganda is an active participant in the war. They have brainwashed Ukrainians and now they want them to die for so-called “western civilization”