AP Retracts Apocalyptical Report on Russian Missile Attack

November 17, 2022

Thanks, David Martin. 

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-kherson-9202c032cf3a5c22761ee71b52ff9d52

So is anyone at AP going to be suspended or fired for writing this false story?  The radio and the TV were filled with it yesterday afternoon.  Here is its origin:

After the news first broke that a munition fell on Poland, a US intelligence official told The Associated Press that it was a Russian missile. Russia quickly issued a denial, but high-level Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, framed the incident as a deliberate Russian attack and implied NATO should respond.

“Hitting NATO territory with missiles. … This is a Russian missile attack on collective security! This is a really significant escalation. Action is needed,”Zelensky said during his nightly address on Tuesday.

Not only was the AP highly irresponsible for putting out such a story based apparently on that one anonymous source, but whoever that “US intelligence official” is should be exposed and sacked.

 

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