Fox News broadcast Easter from Moscow and made Kyiv 'Russian'
Photo: Fox News portrayed Kyiv as part of Russia on Easter (Getty Images)
American broadcaster Fox News aired an Easter service from Moscow featuring Putin. Later, it labeled Kyiv as part of Russia.
On Easter, American broadcaster Fox News aired a service from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, attended by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
The broadcast also showed an Easter service from Kyiv, but later referred to it as part of Russia.
Photo: Fox News broadcast
For several hours, Fox News broadcast the ceremony in Moscow, where, alongside Putin, the city’s mayor Sergey Sobyanin was also present.
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, was featured on air with an address to Russians in which he called for the “unity of historical Rus’” and for “peace” that, according to him, should extend across the lands that received “grace in the baptismal font of Kyiv.”
At the same time, in a small window on the screen, the network aired a service from St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv — the spiritual center of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Photo: Fox News broadcast
At first, the video was labeled correctly: “Easter service: Kyiv, Ukraine.”
However, after a break in the broadcast, Fox News resumed the coverage with a caption that read: “Easter service: Kyiv, Russia.”
Earlier, we reported that the Russian Orthodox Church has been promoting an ultranationalist ideology of “Holy War” to the Kremlin.
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