Terror caught on tape has power to turn the tide

If one photo of a single soldier’s body being violated can cause the U.S. population to protest military interventions, I cannot wait to see what reaction the Russian public will have to a set of 15 videos.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is pictured during a 2009 UN Disarmament Conference. It’s likely the rationale behind the Russian Foreign Ministry’s decision to circulate videos of alleged Ukrainian war crimes was to undermine the current overwhelming popularity of the Ukrainian defenders among the Canadian public, writes Scott Taylor.UN photograph by Jean-Marc Ferre

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

May 2, 2022

OTTAWA—Last week, the press office of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ottawa distributed a collection of video links to Canadian media outlets. In total, there were 15 separate video clips, all of which contained alleged atrocities being committed by Ukrainian soldiers against Russian pr...

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