Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation has rushed to analyze the “discrediting of the election of the new Prime Minister of Great Britain by Russian propaganda.” Both the length of the article it posted yesterday, and its attention to a government other than Ukraine are unusual.
“Coverage of the election of the new Prime Minister of Great Britain in the Russian Federation is dominated by a contemptuous tone with a transition to personal humiliation and emphasis on the image of Russia’s enemy,” the CCD objects.
The CCD is happy about Truss’s support for Ukraine and promises of more which “Russian propagandists” are denouncing (here the CCD includes her “readiness to use nuclear weapons in case of need” and determination that the UK not “assume strategic dependence” on China), but not so, about Russian talk that Miss Liz will not be in office for long, “given the scale of the `decade-record’ prices for electricity and fuel and food products, falling incomes and rising inflation, etc.”
The CCD goes to great lengths to dismiss all questioning of the UK’S ability to financially afford to continue military and “free weapons” to Ukraine as “Russian propaganda.” It even went so far as to imply that Britons are rich enough to absorb usurious electricity prices, with this remarkable statement: “The propaganda of the Russian Federation is happy that in two years in Britain the average annual electricity bill has increased from 1.3 to 3.6 thousand pounds. But they do not indicate that the average annual salary in Britain is about 30 thousand pounds.”
