Twitter has removed at least two posts from a Russian Embassy’s account that had alleged that a recent attack in Ukraine did not occur.
The Russian Embassy in London tweeted Thursday that the maternity hospital that was bombed in Mariupol, Ukraine, was “non-operational.” Twitter eventually took down the two tweets due to them violating Twitter’s terms of service.
The account tweeted statements from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who alleged that the “maternity house” where the bombing occurred “was long non-operational. Instead it was used by [Ukrainian] armed forces and radicals, namely the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion. Moreover, Russian warned UN Security Council about this 3 Days ago,” according to screenshots.
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This is how the Russian Embassy in London has responded to the bombing of the maternity hospital in Mariupol. Utterly obscene. pic.twitter.com/l4Udc1SmM0
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) March 10, 2022
The embassy also alleged that one of the victims seen at the bombing was a pregnant beauty blogger named Marianna Podgurskaya, that her photo was staged propaganda, and that she could not have been inside the maternity house during the bombing.
NEW: Twitter has removed content from Russian Embassy UK claiming the bombing of a maternity hospital had been staged pic.twitter.com/dV3TvduDj4
— James Clayton (@JamesClayton5) March 10, 2022
Russia has attempted several times to justify its attacks, claiming that it was invading to hunt down the neo-Nazis located in Ukraine.
The Wednesday bombing injured at least 17 women and children and killed at least three civilians. While Russian forces have failed to make significant progress in their attempts to invade cities such as Mariupol, their bombing attempts have increased, with local doctors claiming that the civilian victims have flooded local hospitals.
A Twitter spokesperson told CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan that the tweets were taken down after breaking Twitter’s rules on “denial of violent events.”
Tech companies have made several gestures toward censoring Russia’s media efforts. These efforts include blocking Russian state media outlets such as RT and Sputnik, restricting Russian media in Europe, and eliminating misinformation from the platforms.
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