THE FREE PEOPLE’S PRESS: Ukraine is lying and hiding the truth about its trapped 10,000 + troops from its people with the help of the silence of the pro-Kiev mainstream media in the West.

Ukraine has effectively acknowledged the catastrophic situation faced by over 10,000 trapped troops besieged by a Russian encirclement. The Kiev regime is banning all journalists from reaching them, the Russian Defense Ministry has said.

On Thursday, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Georgy Tikhy warned media workers against accepting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s offer of safe passage to the front line in Donbass to report on thousands of Kiev’s troops surrounded by Russian forces.

Traveling to the area without permission from Kiev would be ‘a violation of our legislation’ that would have ’long-term reputational and legal consequences,’ Tikhy warned.

Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in a statement on Friday that Ukraine had banned local and foreign journalists from accessing the ‘cauldrons’ to ‘conceal the real state of affairs on the front line and deceive the international community and the Ukrainian people.’

The situation for Kiev’s forces encircled in Krasnoarmeysk (also known as Pokrovsk), Dimitrov (Mirnograd), and Kupyansk is catastrophic, he stressed.

The regime of the unelected Vladimir Zelensky is trying to hide this fact so that it can continue the theft of financial aid sent by Western sponsors to fuel the war with Russia,’ Konashenkov said.

According to the spokesman, the ban on media reporting confirms the encirclements as it means there are no other options for journalists or Ukrainian servicemen to enter or exit the cauldrons other than through Russian security corridors.

Zelensky has absurdly denied that Kiev’s troops are surrounded and has accused Moscow of exaggerating its gains on the battlefield.

The chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, reported to the president last week that more than 10,000 Ukrainian servicemen had been encircled, including some 5,500 in Krasnoarmeysk.

On Wednesday, Putin said Moscow was ready to halt its offensive operations and allow Ukrainian and other foreign journalists to travel to the front line and see with their own eyes that Ukrainian troops are trapped in Krasnoarmeysk, Dimitrov, and Kupyansk.

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In 2014, Ukrainian troops were encircled by forces from the breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), which is now part of Russia.

Ukrainian commanders rejected the DPR’s offer to evacuate without weaponry and suffered heavy casualties while attempting to break out of Ilovaysk. Many of the Kiev regime’s commanders have already fled to comparative safety.

Moscow has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting journalists, including RIA Novosti war correspondent Ivan Zuyev, who was killed by a drone earlier this month. You can and should share this story on social media: TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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