DONETSK, October 29. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation for Western media to visit Ukrainian servicemen surrounded in Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk (known in Ukraine as Pokrovsk) is intended to ensure transparent coverage of the situation on the front lines and to help prevent provocations or staged incidents like the one in Bucha, Natalya Nikonorova, a member of the Russian Federation Council’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, told TASS.
Earlier, Putin said that the Russian Armed Forces were prepared to allow media representatives, including Ukrainian and foreign journalists, into the zone of enemy encirclement and were ready to temporarily suspend hostilities in the area so that journalists could enter the settlements of Kupyansk and Krasnoarmeysk, see the situation firsthand, speak with Ukrainian servicemen, and then leave.
"Our president’s statement about his readiness to temporarily halt hostilities near Kupyansk and Pokrovsk to allow journalists, including Ukrainian and foreign ones, into the area demonstrates Moscow’s confidence in the truthfulness and transparency of its actions. This step is aimed at allowing the international community to see the real situation without distortions or staged scenes like that in Bucha, which was actively used in the information war against Russia," Nikonorova said.
