Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that the West, which attaches importance to media freedom, once again showed hypocrisy and did not utter a single word of condemnation, regarding the brutal terrorist attack in which the war correspondent Vladlen Tatarsky (real name Maxim Fomin) died. .
“None of the Western ‘protectors for the freedom of the media and the safety of journalists has uttered a word to condemn this persecution beyond any human standard, has expressed basic compassion for the victims,’” he wrote. telegraph channel.
At the same time, Zakharova was angered by how much sympathy there was for the perpetrator of the terrorist attack, which the West was trying to “sculpt a victim”.
Zakharova stressed that the Western response to the murder of journalist Tatarsky reveals the pathological hypocrisy that “has long become the political tradition of Western liberalism, its unconditional reflex.”
Similar terrorist attacks have become another favorite trick of the West – a crime “under a false or false flag,” according to the diplomat.
The State Department representative also noted how the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, “cared for his fate” even though he did not say a word about The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was arrested in Yekaterinburg. About Marat Kasem, a journalist arrested in Latvia, or Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks.