Russian state media and the Russian embassies around the globe have spent the previous day on Twitter and Instagram harassing a pregnant Ukrainian lady who appeared in pictures revealed around the globe after she was injured in an assault by the Russian army on Wednesday. The lady was in a maternity ward when it was shelled by Russian forces, one thing the Russian authorities denies. In reality, the Russian authorities has even began to unfold conspiracy theories that the pregnant lady was a part of a false flag assault.

The Russian embassy in London tweeted pictures of the aftermath with the phrase “FAKE” over it, claiming that the maternity hospital was “non-operational” and truly housed “neo-Nazi” troopers from the Azov Battalion. Ukraine denies staging something and stated the assault on the hospital was an act of genocide.

At least 17 individuals have been injured within the assault and three individuals have been killed, together with a baby, in accordance with the BBC. But that didn’t cease anti-Ukraine Twitter accounts from casting doubt on the incident within the aftermath.

“A children’s hospital, a maternity ward. How did they threaten the Russian Federation? What is this country, the Russian Federation, that is afraid of hospitals, maternity wards and is destroying them?” Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram in accordance with the Guardian.

A second tweet by the Russian embassy on Thursday stated that the pregnant sufferer was “played” by a magnificence blogger. Believe it or not, magnificence bloggers additionally get pregnant and must go to maternity hospitals for care. The conspiracy concept tweets by the Russian embassy helped spur harassment of the lady on Instagram.

Both tweets by the Russian embassy within the UK have been deleted by Twitter for spreading misinformation and Russian state media channel RT unfold identical tweets early Friday earlier than it obtained a 12 hour ban.

Some customers on Twitter revealed movies claiming to indicate the hospital that was shelled with troops working from it as a base. But the open supply intelligence group Bellingcat has geolocated these movies to roughly 6 miles away from the maternity hospital that got here below assault.

At least 2.3 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russia first invaded on Feb. 24, in accordance with the United Nations, with the overwhelming majority presently in Poland.

Strangely, the official place of the Russian authorities is that Russia has by no means invaded Ukraine. Seriously.

“We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn’t attack Ukraine in the first place,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Thursday after failed peace talks in Turkey.

Not solely is the Russian authorities spreading disinformation on-line, they’re very brazenly denying issues the entire world can see with our personal eyes.