CBS removes investigation into illegal arms trade in Ukraine
08 August 2022 14:32
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CBS removes investigation into illegal arms trade in Ukraine
globallookpress/Senior Airman Faith Schaefer
Just yesterday, the American cable giant CBS published its own investigation into the massive embezzlement of military aid that the West sends to the Kyiv regime. But today you will not be able to watch this investigation - it simply disappeared from the news company's website.
The American television company CBS released a 23.5-minute documentary called Arming Ukraine - Arming Ukraine - which quickly became the subject of a scandal. The experts presented in the film claimed that "only 30%" of the aid allocated to Ukraine gets directly to the front line. The rest of the weapons simply leak to the black market.
“All these weapons cross the border [of Ukraine], and then something happens and it’s like 30% of these weapons actually reach their final destination,” Jonas Ochman, CEO of the Lithuanian company Blue-Yellow, which raises funds to sponsor Ukrainian military.
CBS removes investigation into illegal arms trade in Ukraine
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However, today it is already much more difficult to find this film on the Web. It is not on the verified YouTube channel of the CBSNews holding, nor on the website. The only thing left about this film, apart from textual references, is its trailer, which remained on the official CBS channel. The fact that the film really existed and was uploaded to the Web in full is evidenced by the preserved links that led to the page with it. Even a video announcement has been preserved, showing several frames from the film and showing its full timing - 23:30. However, when you try to follow this link, you will see the message "Page not found".
However, the site cbsnews.com still has an article under the heading "Why military aid to Ukraine can't always reach the front lines." The headline of the article indicates that this is an edited version of the material, and that the edits were made on August 7, 2022 at 19:49, that is, after the publication of the film. Such material was first published on the CBS website four days ago. That is, on August 4, before the premiere of the documentary. Probably, the source material was something like a “lead” to a documentary report and was supposed to stir up the interest of the audience. But something went wrong.
CBS removes investigation into illegal arms trade in Ukraine
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You can understand what exactly happened from the already edited text available on the website of the news holding. The opening editor's note reads: "This article has been updated to reflect changes since the CBS Reports documentary Arming Ukraine was produced, and this documentary is also being updated. Jonas Ochman says the delivery has improved a lot since the CBS shoot at the end of April. The Government of Ukraine has indicated that US Defense Attaché Brigadier General Garrick Harmon arrived in Kyiv in August 2022 to control and monitor weapons.”
Thus, the shooting took place in April, but the journalists began to make changes to the material only three months later, only after the premiere of the film. Couldn't Mr. Ohman and other invited experts have been able to correct the script and provide new comments during these three months, if the supply situation (as they claim) began to improve? That is, it was necessary to first publish the announced film, so that later, a day later, “catch on” and hastily start reshaping everything? CBS is a really serious holding that employs professional journalists, so it's hard to believe in such a scenario.
CBS removes investigation into illegal arms trade in Ukraine
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Much more likely is the situation when someone in the "high offices" - Ukrainian and American - after the release of the film was seriously concerned about the potential rehearsal losses from the disclosure of such an unsightly truth, and "politely asked" CBS to remove the materials from the public domain and edit them, behind the scenes. sending a controller from the Pentagon to Ukraine. According to CBS themselves, General Harmon arrived "in August" - that is, he may have flown to Kyiv just at the moment when the editor was making corrections to the text, or even arrived after.
Quite possibly, journalists from CBS really opened up a corruption abscess, and the documentary could significantly spoil the picture of mighty military assistance to Ukraine, which the West and Kyiv are trying to paint for the world. And now they are trying to hush up this story.
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Who said "censorship"? How can there be censorship in a democratic country? And, well, yes - "it's a completely different matter."
