Another Kremlin Fake? Russian TV accused of staging bus attack survivor interview

• published: 16 Jan 2015
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The death of 13 civilians in east Ukraine earlier this week has been widely attributed to an insurgent Grad rocket attack gone tragically wrong. Ukrainian officials have accused insurgent forces of a terrorist atrocity, while OSCE observers on the scene have confirmed that the devastation wrought was consistent with a Grad rocket attack. However, Russian media outlets continue to offer a number of competing theories which appear designed to deflect blame away from Kremlin-backed insurgents. On the day after the tragedy, Russian state TV channel ‘Rossiya 1’ broadcast an interview with an alleged survivor of the bus attack who claims that the deadly blast was local in nature and not part of a rocket barrage. Ukrainian media outlets have raised a number of concerns about the credibility of the ‘Rossiya 1’ report, pointing out that the interviewee, who is named as Snezhana Karpeka, does not feature on any of the lists of dead and wounded which have been made available to the public by the Ukrainian authorities. Furthermore, the interview takes place just one day after the attack in what appears to be the interviewee’s home, despite the fact that none of the wounded had at that point been discharged from the hospital. Check out our website: http://uatoday.tv Facebook: https://facebook.com/uatodaytv Twitter: https://twitter.com/uatodaytv