America: Ukraine censors war news
A senior U.S. State Department official said Ukraine is heavily restricting media coverage of the war. |
report Mehr News Agency quoted Rashatudi, a senior official of the US State Department said that the government of Ukraine should be more transparent about communicating the bitter truths of the battlefield situation to its people.
James Rubin, head of the Center for Global Engagement of the US Department of State, announced in an interview with Politico on Thursday that Ukraine is not very transparent with its people about the realities of the battlefield. It is not.
The head of the US Department of State’s Global Engagement Center emphasized that although Ukraine is moving in the right direction, it is still not a completely perfect country in terms of democracy.
He said that the authorities in Kyiv may in some cases resist the freedom of information, which is normal for us.
The American diplomat asked the Ukrainian government to be less restrictive when monitoring media coverage of the war. He reminded that on some days, war reporters report things that are not necessarily in favor of Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine.