Ukraine Soldiers
The media - especially the Western media - is completely biased in favor of Ukraine, looking at the war on its territory against the Russian army with one eye that only sees the Russian army. This may be understandable given that Kyiv is an ally of Europe and the United States, and is on the defensive and not on the offensive, but what is incomprehensible is why the Western media, and some of the Arab media, are covering up the abuses committed by the Ukrainians, and specifically the armed militias that are fighting On the side of the Ukrainian army, especially against foreign and Arab journalists and all those who consider it foreign to Ukraine.
The fact that some media outlets overlook the excesses of a battle they consider a battle of "human rights" and "freedom of expression" is a slap in the face for these headlines and the standards followed in media coverage. Addresses that the West has been fighting for.
This cover-up, whether intentionally or unintentionally (and it seems on purpose, of course) means that the civilized Western world practices double standards, and it means that we have returned to slogans that resemble “nothing is louder than the sound of a cannon”, and to the principle of the only one who is able to convey his voice to the world. He is right, and there are many evidences of these Ukrainian abuses that have been recorded since the beginning of the war until today, including the exposure of foreign journalists, harassment and arrest of them, preventing them from reporting freely. All this did not receive sufficient media coverage.
The latest of these incidents was the disappearance of the correspondent of Al-Mayadeen channel in Ukraine, the Lebanese journalist Abbas Sabbagh, and then his sudden appearance in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Sabbagh disappeared without any fuss or any clear justification.
The station's circles in Beirut - a station close to the regime in Iran - justified his absence by being infected with the Corona virus, and said that he was "fine, but he is subject to rest." 2022, and for days nothing is known about him, and he later returned to Beirut without knowing the reasons.
Sabbagh appeared in the first media coverage in the city of Kharkiv, then left for the city of Lviv in western Ukraine and then disappeared there. As for the reasons for his arrest, the information reveals that the arrest came against the background of the station's method of covering events, which the sources see as "saying everything" and speaking in a language that Ukraine is not satisfied with. The sources also suggested that the matter would be “settling an old account” with him, as a result of a previous report he prepared some time ago, in which he talked about the “Ukrainian National Brigades”’s crimes against the civilian population, with the help of “mercenaries participating in the conflict today,” who are evading any regulatory controls and engaging in operations looting.