WASHINGTON, April 4. /TASS/. The Ukrainian authorities are lobbying for US military intervention by posting videos from the town of Bucha, while US media outlets are presenting it as verified fact, American journalist and political commentator Michael Tracey wrote on Twitter.
"For weeks, US media has been happy to take photos/video/claims produced by Ukraine government officials and present it as verified fact. They've abandoned all journalistic standards to assist the propaganda efforts of a foreign government openly lobbying for US military action," he pointed out.
"There is nothing subtle about this latest attempt to cajole US/NATO military intervention", Tracy added, commenting on videos, which, according to the Kiev authorities, prove Russian troops’ crimes in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
"Looks like we're entering a new phase of lobbying for US military intervention. As usual, spurred by emotional outbursts in reaction to the Ukraine government's deliberately-crafted war propaganda, which journalists and ‘experts’ repeat as verified fact," Tracey emphasized.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that the Russian Armed Forces had left Bucha, located in the Kiev region, on March 30, while "the evidence of crimes" emerged only four days later, after Ukrainian Security Service officers had arrived in the town. The ministry stressed that on March 31, the town’s Mayor Anatoly Fedoruk had confirmed in a video address that there were no Russian troops in Bucha. However, he did not say a word about civilians shot dead on the street with their hands tied behind their backs.