| Robert Parry: The Obama administration and Kiev government claimed that Russian soldiers were present at the building occupations, yet it turns out that this assertion was based on photos the U.S. government provided to NYTimes and that the newspaper since has had to retract. But as it turned out, a key photograph that The Times used, one a group photograph which The Times claimed had been taken in Russia, and then these same--some of the same fighters show up in Eastern Ukraine, that was presented as a key piece of evidence that these folks were from Russia and were participating in the Eastern Ukrainian uprising. But it turned out that the photograph was actually taken by a freelance photographer in Eastern Ukraine. So the whole basis of The Times' story collapses, because these folks were not photographed in Russia, they were photographed in Eastern Ukraine. |
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