Russia’s Investigative Committee has charged the Ukrainian commander of a military unit with the ‘murder’ of Anatoly Klyan, a cameraman with the Russian state TV Channel One. Klyan was certainly fatally injured in the Donetsk oblast on June 29, 2014. The problem is that Russia’s attempt to claim this was in an ‘attack on soldiers’ mothers and journalists’ was debunked immediately by a journalist colleague of Klyan’s who was convinced that the journalists had been sent there to be shot at, in order to provide good propaganda coverage.
It is precisely such propaganda that the Investigative Committee’s report on February 27, seems aimed at, since the ‘charges’ against the Ukrainian commander Mykola Malomen are in absentia and likely to remain so.
