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 broke out in the Senate with fake photographs of the “invasion of Russian tanks” provided by Ukrainian deputies Semenchenko, Bereza etc. gets its continuation. Readers of the German media began to notice that the latest reports about the “invasion of Russian troops” are illustrated by editors with photographs taken much earlier. Now they write German economic news, the website of the central German TV channel ZDF was caught forgery.
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The publication writes: “Report of an alleged invasion 50 Russian tanks to Eastern Ukraine was illustrated by ZDF with old photos. The channel’s audience appealed to the management with official complaints:
“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 in korean blog in 2009 in a text that reports 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.”
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Now the editors are aware.