On Oct. 5, Newsweek magazine published a purported “fact checker” story, asserting that the Ukrainian Myrotvorets operation is not a “kill list,” but merely a database which tracks people who promote “the Kremlin agenda,” which, they admit, is used by the Ukrainian government. The scandalous story goes so far as to state that “Mirotvorets does not advocate violence against those on its database,” a bald-faced lie which anyone who merely visits the Myrotvorets website can refute.
Newsweek’s desperate CYA piece was published in the midst of mounting international pressure for the Myrotvorets list and its companion, the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD), to be shut down. That pressure includes vociferous, public demands by prominent retired U.S. military and intelligence professionals, including on platforms organized by this news service and the Schiller Institute, that the U.S. government must cut off all U.S. funding and cooperation with these operations, and discussion which has also begun within the U.S. Congress.
The Newsweek defense of Myrotvorets is so preposterous that it had to have been commissioned by some U.S. or British intelligence network panicking over the increasing coverage, internationally and inside the U.S., of the fascist nature of the Ukrainian regime receiving tens of billions of dollars and weapons from the United States and Europe.
