https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062536033158279463#m

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
🇷🇺🇬🇧 We asked BBC's Steve Rosenberg why he didn't go to Starobelsk to cover the Ukrainian attack on a university that killed 21 students. His answer: "We were told it wasn't safe." Every other foreign journalist still went.

(vid - worth a watch to see him squirm)

https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062488623203618934#m

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
🇷🇺 "I think Steve should reconsider his career and maybe report on fashion" - Our friend @sashameetsrus and @ChrisHelali ambushed BBC's Steve Rosenberg at SPIEF, and asked him why he didn't want to come to Starobelsk to report on Ukrainian terrorist attacks.

Vid:



https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/2062160738878128463#m

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
Jun 3
🇷🇺🇬🇧 At SPIEF, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova publicly called out BBC correspondent Steve Rosenberg, asking why he shows up to SPIEF events and exhibitions, but could not make it to Starobelsk to cover Kiev's terrorist attacks.

Rosenberg subsequently promised to cover the attack in Yenakiyevo, where today a Ukrainian drone struck a civilian bus on the Moscow-Simferopol route, killing 7 people.

The BBC does not use the word "terrorist attack," claimed Rosenberg. Anywhere in the world. A 3 second search through the BBC's own website says otherwise.

(vids)

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Zakharova refutes Rosenberg's claim about 'safety', saying the BBC refused on principle to send a journalist there:

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https://nitter.net/bbcstever_not/status/2058242401488277910#m

(Vid)

(1:00) '[They]refused.They sent us a formal notice of refusal. And the corporation stated that it wasn't merely that they couldn't go but that they would not go on principle. Neither jointly, nor separately - under no circumstances. That's their approach.

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Pretty unbelievable, and obvious they would have risked hell & high water to send a reporter to a similar atrocity in Ukraine.

jeers,
I