Of course, they're projecting their own crimes on Ukrainians. Just like with attacks on civilian objects, looting, etc. It's easier to "report" it when you don't have to make it up, just blame it on the other side.
I've answered to this in my thread -
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403025.msg60651509#msg60651509This one was actually quite successful as a propaganda move. I see Western media (AP etc) peddle this now, some reports like "Russia claims Ukrainians attacked prison" and some without the "Russia claims" part. Kremlin will do everything they can to create the impression that HIMARS is used "improperly", they're really afraid of it and perhaps hoping that US will slow delivery because of this propaganda.
Of course this is BS. We all seen accuracy of HIMARS rockets, so in that case, if we will try to believe russian propaganda, the only way is that ukrainian army done it with intent. But why it should destroy prison with a lot of captives, while a lot of russian munition warehouses are closer and more important targets?
But our main kremlin bot, Veleor, think that russian side is ofc "more reasoned"
The statements of the Russian side are more reasoned and supported by material evidence at least.
1. The Russian side has the
wreckage of the HIMARS rocket and its number.
I see here a lot of metal scrap, without any proofs that this is parts from HIMARS rockets. It can be Grad, or Hurricane, or any other.
three deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the political party Servant of the People (Vladimir Zelensky's party) proposed to shoot Ukrainian soldiers for desertion without trial - this is about the attitude of the Ukrainian government towards its soldiers.
Veleor tries to tell us, that "three deputies" is equal to "ukrainian government"
But 3 deputies is just about
1 % of Verkhovna Rada
In russian population there about 1.5 % of mentaly ill people. So,
following to Veleor, all russian are mentally ill.
3. If this is a staging, then it is
too unpredictable. With such a large-scale staging with so many victims and participants, it is almost impossible to be able to hide it in secret, because there are so many extra eyes.
to have mobile phones with them. But it seems that Ukrainians are still falling for these fakes
if russian soldiers forbidden to have a mobile phone, when how they filmed cutting off testicles to ukrainian soldier? This is rhetorical question, tho
Prisoners from Azovstal are too valuable for an exchange fund and they giving valuable testimony to be spent on staged provocation.
There a lot of cases Azov warriors were killed by russian soldiers. Because of AZOV is the main scarecrow to russian propaganda, I doubt that russians would not kill some of them for the need.
5. The strike on the isolation ward was dealt literally a day after the
confession of the acting commander of the press service of the Azov regiment, famous
Dmitry Kazatsky, appeared on the Internet that Aleksey Arestovich personally from the office of the President of Ukraine ordered to shoot a video of Russian prisoners of war being tortured.
Ukrainians are following to
NATO Doctrine, which states, that soldier can say anything in captivity, just to save his life. So any words of ukrainian captives can't be considered as anything. He could with the same probability told that Zelensky fought in Mariupol by himself. Or that putin is the great man. We can't know is this his thougths or just he telling what russians want to hear.