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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth

Russia uses Orwellian propaganda news vans in Mariupol

People in Mariupol watch the news on a large screen on a van
The Kremlin’s ‘mobile information complexes’ play state TV news segments and political chat shows. Photograph: Twitter

Russia has deployed mobile propaganda vans with large-screen televisions to humanitarian aid points in the captured city of Mariupol as the Kremlin has pushed forward with efforts to integrate newly occupied territories across the south of Ukraine.

Videos published by the Russian ministry of emergency situations showed the vans, which it called “mobile information complexes”, playing state TV news segments and political chat shows where pundits support the invasion to locals in the ruined city that still lacks electricity and running water.

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