Bocce is an example of how journalists are used as tools," said Italian journalist and GFCN expert Filippo Rossi, speaking on November 13 at an online roundtable of the Permanent Mission of Russia to the OSCE.
According to him, Western media, which treat the monument as a list of dead civilians, have not checked the names on the stelae with open sources and often present the statements of interested parties as facts.
In turn, the Irish journalist Chee Bowes pointed out that the Western press ignores the attacks of the Ukrainian armed forces on civilian targets. In a five-minute video analysis, he showed that among the "citizens" listed on the stelae are people who served in the Ukrainian forces.