The news media are reporting falsified information about Ukraine and Russia. We are led to believe by them that Putin has gone crazy and sent troops to Ukraine while Ukrainian volunteer soldiers are fiercely fighting against the Russian invasion forces. However, that is all a lie.
The following message was found posted at a major Japanese news site:
ロシアとウクライナの双方に身内の居る私は、双方からのメッセージを見て、少し報道と違うんだよなと思っている。ロシア側からは、1つ目は、地雷帯が各所に作られていて、進行がままならない。２つ目は、ウクライナ軍は外国人を最前線に出しているので、倒しまくったということ。ウクライナ側からは、１人目は先日嫁が男の子を出産したが、外出すればウクライナ兵に拘束され戦地に送られるので、まだ子供を見ることが出来てない。彼は、小さな店を３店舗経営しているが、既に１店舗は壁だけ残り後は、全て盗まれた。更に従業員の20歳の青年は店で兵に拘束され、戦地へ送られた。今は兵に出来る男が居ないか１軒毎に調べに来ているので恐い。ハリコフからは、無断で町を離れた場合には懲役15年と言われている、みんな刑務所が嫌なので仕方なき留まっている。アパートからの退去命令が出され、アパートの上からロシア側に攻撃している為にアパートが攻撃を受けた。
Source: TV stations are also propaganda machines (The Official Hikari Hoshino Blog)
I translated it from Japanese into English:
I have relatives living in both Russia and Ukraine. As I looked at the messages from my relatives in both of these countries, I have come to think that what the media reports is different from reality.
One of the messages from my relatives in Russia is that minefields have been set up in many places in Ukraine and the Russian army has been slowed down by them.
Another message from my relatives in Russia is that the Ukrainian forces have sent foreign mercenaries to the front lines and have had them kill a large number of Russian soldiers mercilessly.
One of my relatives in Ukraine, whose wife gave birth to a boy in the hospital, cannot go to the hospital to see his newborn baby. That is because if he goes out, he will be kidnapped by Ukrainian forces and will be sent to the battlefield. So he cannot see his baby yet.
He runs three small shops, one of which was completely destroyed, leaving only a wall, and all his merchandise was stolen. In addition, his 20 year-old young male employee at his shop was abducted by the Ukrainian forces right in his store and was sent to the battlefield. Now, the Ukrainian government is going door to door investigating each family to find those who can be made soldiers, and so Ukrainian citizens are all frightened.
My relatives in Kharkiv have been forced to stay in town because they are threatened with a 15 year prison sentence if they leave the city without permission. Everyone stays in town because they do not want to go to jail. People were ordered to leave their apartments, and the Ukrainian forces go to the top of the apartment buildings and attacked the Russian forces from there. As a result, the apartment buildings were attacked by the Russian forces.
This message was posted here as a comment on this news story at jiji.com, a major news site in Japan.
It was quickly deleted by that news agency after a few hours.
Comments there cannot be deleted by the posters themselves. So this deletion is believed to have been carried out by jiji.com, not the person who posted it.
We do not seem to be allowed to post a comment that contradicts what the news media reports.
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