The German TV channel ZDF has come under criticism for reporting from Mariupol captured by the Russians, Bild reports. The program was presented as “a rare glimpse into the Russian occupation.”
Correspondent Armin Körper was directly in the city, spoke about “a lot of destruction”, and what is being done “a lot of restoration work”. “Streets, schools, residential buildings and entire neighborhoods are being restored. And it happens very quickly. Mariupol is not a ghost town,” – said Kerper. He says that the film crew came to the city on their own, through Moscow and Rostov, having received Russian documents.
The report began to be quoted by Russian media and criticized in Ukraine and the West. “The ZDF seriously says that before the Russian occupation it was forbidden to speak Russian in the theater, and therefore many people are glad that Russia occupied the city,” – Sergey Sumlenny, an expert on Eastern Europe from the European Center for the Resilience Initiative, comments in X. The journalists were also criticized for entering Mariupol using Russian documents.
The ZDF responded by saying that they considered the city illegally occupied, and the journalist said that opponents of the Russian occupation there had to fear reprisals if they spoke to a Western journalist.
Original
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkQ4-JsdSHA
With the translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g2abYnSNag
Commentators are already asking whether journalists should be fired, or was all this done deliberately?
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