#Opinion by Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
Read in full (Telegraph)
💬 Yesterday, the US Department of State congratulated me on
International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace in a personal way – by publishing a
detailed paper that was entirely devoted to me!
I believe I am probably the only head of the Foreign Ministry Press Service with a personal page on the websites of two nuclear superpowers – my homeland
Russia and now the
United States.
The US foreign policy office has not mastered this new genre for free. The Maria Zakharova profile was compiled by the Global Engagement Centre at the Department of State. Thanks to
The New York Times, we know that
$120 million were allocated for this, including my profile.
The Department of State
claims that I spread a fake item about Osama Bin Laden’s reception at the White House. This is untrue. Any fake item is deliberate. Speaking on Rossiya Channel 1 on October 30, 2017, I made a mistake by mentioning the photos of Bin Laden and members of the Taliban, but I immediately wrote in my
Facebook account about this. I clarified that I had two different historical facts in mind.
The first fact.
Ronald Reagan’s meeting with the Mojahedin at the White House (this post was written in 2017 when the US was still fighting the Taliban (that included the Mojahedin) in Afghanistan. The US’s shameful flight took place four years later). Senator Rand Paul, Reagan’s reputable fellow party member
admitted that the US was arming Bin Laden for fighting the USSR.
The second fact.
Bin Laden’s photo in The Independent under the heading “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace.”
Based on the most stringent requirements for journalists and officials for spreading false information, I decided not to limit myself to one post and went to the studio of the same programme, “60 Minutes,” and
talked about all this on November 9, 2017.
Further on, I’m accused of
“lying” about “the Anglo-Saxons needing war at all costs, and their favourite method of resolving their own problems includes provocation, disinformation and threats.”
The fact that the United States needs a war at any cost is backed up... by the State Department and White House
officials.
This report mentioned Bucha and “forcible deportations” separately. Where are the verified lists of the people who died in Bucha? We have been asking this question for months, but what we get instead of an answer is silence or aggressive mumbling.
With regard to forcible deportations, Russia is not moving anyone out by force. Millions of refugees from Donbass are fleeing from Ukrainian and the West’s bombs and missiles. They are not fleeing to Poland, but to a safe and secure place, Russia. As for the “children issue,” I think the recent Arria-Formula Meeting at the Security Council on this issue could well disavow all accusations. Or, the people behind this opus did not watch it, maybe because their NATO allies
blocked the broadcast? It’s all right, I will share the
recording, and even in English. And if that is not enough, here's the full video of
Maria Lvova-Belova's news conference. Let them take a look.
Truth be told, they could have come up with something more serious for $120 million, or, maybe just wire the money to Zelensky for drugs.
☝️ Unfortunately, this shows once again that the
motto of American foreign policy is hoaxes, fakes and insults. On top of that, it’s a mediocre job even though done for an inordinate amount of money.
