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Peter Pomerantsev

Peter Pomerantsev is the Executive Editor of The Reckoning Project. He is an award-winning author specializing in the relationship between propaganda, culture, and society.

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Putin addresses the public amid the Wagner Group’s armed rebellion in Russia on June 24, 2023.

Starving residents of Oleshky must not become props in Russian propaganda

For months, desperate civilians remaining in the southern Ukrainian city of Oleshky have been blockaded inside, as Russia severed food and medicine supplies to the city amid constant shelling, food shop closures, and reports of looting; many of the city's elderly and less mobile residents have been forced to forage for weeds and eat grass in order to simply survive. Oleshky is starving. The stories of the residents have been well documented. Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunne