It's rather pointless to try to find any factual information in a staged interview, but it's interesting to see Russian propaganda apply the same set of techniques they applied in case of #MH17: throw a dozen of contradictory and mutually exclusive versions, until nothing makes sense for their goodwill audience.
As there's lots of evidence to support the narrative that incriminates them, the most successful tactics is to flood the public space in Russia with so much chaff that the only thought that remains in the heads of loyal population is "we will never know all truth"...
In Russian: https://theins.ru/news/262500
P.S. meanwhile Russian forces have blown up another dam on Mokrye Yaly river south from Blagodatne, recently liberated by Ukraine...
Maybe the Kremlin has done some audience research and found that even their domestic audience isn’t naive enough to believe that Ukraine destroyed its own dam!
But Russia will still let the “Ukrainians destroyed the dam” theory circulate. After all, they are fine with people believing anything, so long as it doesn’t incriminate Russia.
The one thing that they won’t allow is discussion of the irrefutable evidence that Russia caused a massive explosion at the dam.
@chowderman That is how propaganda works when some serious shit hits the fan: they don't give you a single false version, that is consistent and believable, they give you 15 different ones to choose from, maybe your bias will help you pick one that works best for you. And of course the sweet taste of "we will never know all the truth" — like it's impossible, truth is relative, pick whatever you want to believe. Journalists who try to pick the middle ground always fall into this trap.
