08.04 11:16
BBC journalists exposed the lies of Russian TV channels that showed the story of 10-year-old girl killed during the shelling in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk. The journalists conducted their own investigation and visited the alleged “crime” scene.
It turned out that no resident of the Petrovsky district of Donetsk was able to confirm this information, reports BBC.
“I heard it on TV, too” – said one of the residents of Donetsk, and added that she actualy does know nothing about the “incident”.
Meanwhile, another woman said that the city wasn’t even shelled that day.
Reporters interviewed several other residents, but no one heard about the “tragedy”. “If something like that happened here we would know about it… The news spread quickly in here,” – said one of the women.
In addition, journalists visited the morgue in Donetsk. Nikolai Kalashnikov, director of the morgue, said that they haven’t received the body of the allegedly deceased girl.
“There was no girl. She did not die. We just were compelled to broadcast this, “- said one of the Russian journalists on a Russia-backed militants’ checkpoint.
For your interest, only NTV channell admitted taking the information about the death of the girl from the speeches of spokespersons of self-proclaimed republics. Other Russian channels haven’t responded to the request by British journalists.
Was there any cause for fake news? Political influence or money for broadcasting etc...?
I think the unique "valide or possible" reason is a political influence from a government, I don't have anything else in mind (but maybe someone from Ukrainian can explain better what is happened and the reason).