The German TV channel ZDF reported an invasion of 50 Russian tanks, showing a photo from 2009 from a Korean blog
Berlin – Kyiv, February 16 (PolitNavigator, Vasily Ablyazimov) – The scandal that erupted in the Senate over fake photographs of a "Russian tank invasion" provided by Ukrainian MPs Semenchenko, Bereza, and others is continuing. Readers of German media have begun to notice that editors are illustrating the latest reports of a "Russian troop invasion" with photographs taken much earlier. Now, according to Deutsche Ekonomike News , the website of Germany's central television channel ZDF has been caught in the act.
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The publication writes: " ZDF illustrated a report about the alleged invasion of 50 Russian tanks into eastern Ukraine with old photos. The channel's audience filed official complaints with management:
“In the Live Blog article “Kyiv reports 50 Russian tanks ...” dated February 12, 2015, a photo was published as evidence with the following caption: “On Thursday night, the troops also brought about 40 missile systems, as well as many armored vehicles to the control “Izvarine checkpoint in the Luhansk region,” said Ukrainian army representative Andrey Lysenko in Kyiv.”
However, the photo used for the article was published on a Korean blog in 2009 in a text that reported on Russian troops in Georgia.
Readers are asking why such a dramatic and important statement about the penetration of regular troops into the territory of Ukraine is illustrated by old photos? Can't the security services take at least a few fresh photographs?
“There is a high level of fanaticism in the reports and publications of the Ukrainian media,” Maren Müller, a member of the German state Media Appeal Board, comments on this fact. “These reports really shouldn’t be taken seriously.” Maren Müller notes that German journalists need to approach the official reports of the Kyiv authorities very critically, since they reflect only one interested party in the conflict of the pro-Western Kyiv government. Because of this pro-Westernism, Müller believes, many German media fell into the trap of publishing government Kyiv reports without due criticality, which were not always objective. “We've received hundreds of complaints from readers,” Mueller says. “Unfortunately, the German media are not always critical of information from Kyiv.”
German TV channel ZDF reported on the invasion of 50 Russian tanks, showing a 2009 photo from a Korean blog.