New Cold War: Ukraine and Beyond — Italian daily La Repubblica breaks Western media silence over assassinations in Kyiv

Italy’s second largest newspaper, La Repubblica, has broken Western media’s silence over the latest wave of political murders in Ukraine. It describes a “a ruthless sweeping away of every form of political opposition taking place in Kiev”.

In an unusually frank assessment by mainstream Western media of Kiev’s post-Maidan regime, the Italian daily La Repubblica has denounced “a ruthless sweeping away of every form of political opposition taking place in Kiev”. The paper was reacting to yet another assassination in Ukraine — this time of a popular journalist Oles Buzina on April 16. 

Not shy of calling a spade a spade, the article leaves no doubts as to what is happening in Ukraine, right from the headline: “Pro-Russian journalist murdered in Kiev. The third political homicide in 24 hours.” 

The captions describe Oles Buzina as a “journalist and writer very well known in the Ukrainian capital”. His murder is described as an “execution on his door step”. 

“Somebody is systematically killing all those opposed to the Ukrainian government borne from last year’s ‘revolution’,” the article reads.Noteworthy here are the inverted commas into which the Italian newspaper puts the word ‘revolution’, thereby putting in doubt the democratic nature of the regime change in Kiev. 

The article by the newspaper’s Moscow correspondent Nicola Lombardozzi then quotes President Putin as saying that this is “one of the many crimes of the new Ukraine”. 

One would be hard pressed to find anywhere in Western mainstream media other articles like this, which report Putin’s statements without the slightest attempt of casting his words in a somewhat negative or misleading way.

Media silence is an aspect of media propaganda.

The Western press was almost unanimously in an uproar of fake outrage of "Putin's" assassination of Boris Nemtsov. Nary a word has been reported on the multiple deaths of opponents of the Ukrainian regime and very little of the military destruction targeted at civilians in Donbass.

New Cold War: Ukraine and Beyond
Italian daily La Repubblica breaks Western media silence over assassinations in Kyiv