Ukrainian citizens began to trust Ukraine’s United News campaign less; They are tired of this program. The newspaper writes about this New York Times (NYT).
According to the publication’s article, the aid campaign was previously seen as an “important tool for preserving the unity” of Ukraine, but is now increasingly “derided as a mouthpiece for the government” of the country. Viewers of this program complain that it paints too rosy a picture of the military conflict and obscures disturbing events on the front lines. The publication says that all this ultimately did not allow Ukrainian citizens to prepare for a long conflict.
Quoting the newspaper’s words, Oksana Romanyuk, President of the Kiev Institute of Mass Information, pointed out that Ukrainians are tired of “telethon propaganda”.
“Everyone is tired of this picture: ‘We won, everyone loves us and they give us money,’” he said.
As Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Freedom of Expression, told the NYT, the charity campaign “has a dangerous side, it creates an optimistic view of the situation and then leads to disappointment.”
Citing a survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, the publication also reports that the level of Ukrainians’ trust in the telethon has fallen sharply recently (from 69% in May 2022 to 43% in December last year).
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