RT reported today on an interview with Steve Sweeney, an international editor for the British newspaper, Morning Star, who accused the major British media of “whitewashing” the role of Nazis in Ukraine. “A great effort is being made to really whitewash or rehabilitate the Azov [military battalion] as either having no influence in Ukraine or being just simply misunderstood nationalists,” the journalist pointed out. “You have the Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the BBC, Sky News, Channel 4 all really producing identical reports from Kyiv and Lviv that don’t deviate at all from the government line, from the NATO line on what’s happening” in Ukraine’s conflict with Russia, he said.Sweeney went as far as to describe the BBC’s reporting on the Azov regiment as “a masterclass in fascism denial.”
Sweeney, who recently returned from the Ukrainian city of Lviv near the border with Poland, said he had to travel there himself because the U.K. media was so controlled, and couldn’t be trusted to be reliable. While in Lviv, he noted that “the city itself was essentially full of fascists and mercenaries, and people in military fatigues that are using civilian transport networks to enter Ukraine” from Poland.
