{"id":119577,"date":"2022-06-09T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=119577"},"modified":"2022-06-09T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:29:12","slug":"ukrainian-official-admits-she-lied-about-russians-committing-mass-rape-wanted-to-convince-countries-to-send-more-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=119577","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Ukrainian Official Admits She Lied About Russians Committing Mass Rape, Wanted to Convince Countries to Send More Weapons<\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>And it worked.<\/h2>\n<p>Paul Joseph Watson<br \/>\nSUMMIT News<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-post-feat-img\" class=\"left relative mvp-post-feat-img-wide2\">\n<div style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment- wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2022\/06\/090622ukraine1.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2022\/06\/090622ukraine1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2022\/06\/090622ukraine1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summit.news\/2022\/06\/090622ukraine1-768x403.jpg 768w\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lyudmila Denisova, the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-wrap\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-out right relative\">\n<div class=\"mvp-post-soc-in\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-body-top\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\" class=\"left relative\">\n<div id=\"tps_slideContainer_21503\" class=\"theiaPostSlider_slides\">\n<div class=\"theiaPostSlider_preloadedSlide\">\n<p><strong>The top Ukrainian official who was fired for spreading misinformation has admitted that she lied about Russians committing mass rape in order to convince western countries to send more weapons to Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lyudmila Denisova, the former Ukrainian Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, was removed from her position following a vote of no confidence in the Ukrainian parliament which passed by a margin of 234-to-9.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament member Pavlo Frolov specifically accused Denisova of pushing misinformation that \u201conly harmed Ukraine\u201d in relation to \u201cthe numerous details of \u2018unnatural sexual offenses\u2019 and child sexual abuses in the occupied territories, which were unsupported by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an interview published by a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lb.ua\/news\/2022\/06\/03\/518875_lyudmila_denisova_azovtsi_z.html\">Ukrainian news outlet<\/a>, Denisova admitted that her falsehoods had achieved their intended goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen, for example, I spoke in the Italian parliament at the Committee on International Affairs, I heard and saw such fatigue from Ukraine, you know? I talked about terrible things in order to somehow push them to make the decisions that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people need,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F3iCPS6VR8w?start=2100\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Denisova noted that Italy\u2019s Five Star Movement was originally \u201cagainst the provision of weapons to us, but after [her] speech, one of the party leaders\u2026 said that they will support [us], including by the provision of weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that her claims about mass rape were false, they were repeatedly amplified by legacy media outlets like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/09\/europe\/ukraine-russian-soldiers-brovary-rape-victims\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/11\/ukraine-refugees-russia-filtration-camps\/\">Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe media was quick to put this woman\u2019s BS claims out but couldn\u2019t care less about correcting the record,\u201d writes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=63138\">Chris Menahan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there have been innumerable outright hoaxes and falsehoods throughout the war where so-called \u2018fact checkers\u2019 have been noticeable by their absence.<\/p>\n<p>These include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/03\/04\/ukraine-claims-dubious-russian-attack-on-nuclear-plant-in-bid-to-lobby-for-nato-no-fly-zone\/\">radiation leaks<\/a>\u00a0at besieged nuclear plants which turned out not to have occurred, the media\u2019s complete misinformation about what happened on Snake Island, the \u2018Ghost of Kiev Hoax, as well as the \u2018attack\u2019 on a Holocaust memorial that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/03\/03\/babi-yar-holocaust-memorial-unscathed-according-to-israeli-journalist\/\">never happened<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"They did it again!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1tQjqeWJXHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/06\/09\/ukrainian-official-admits-she-lied-about-russians-committing-mass-rape-to-convince-countries-to-send-more-weapons\/\">https:\/\/summit.news\/2022\/06\/09\/ukrainian-official-admits-she-lied-about-russians-committing-mass-rape-to-convince-countries-to-send-more-weapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it worked. 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