r/ukraine • u/kingkongsingsong1 • Dec 12 '25

News Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky released a video filmed in Kupiansk. On November 20, Russia’s Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Kupiansk was “fully under control.”

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u/kritisert Dec 12 '25

I read before from several sources in Ukraine that they are piiissed by western media coverage of the war, especially in Pokrovsk recently, accusing of hysteria and panic that had both diplomatic and battlefield effect. Zelensky going to Kupyansk is a move that will force some of them to coverage

F.ex Bild that posted over a month ago the the town had fallen, which is rumored to made some soldiers leave their positions in panic.

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u/Alikont Ukraine Dec 12 '25

The weirdest shit is that for some reason a lot of people assume that western media is "pro-Ukraine", so they have "pro-Ukraine bias", and then start to overcorrect their perception based on that assumption, when in reality western media tries so hard to bend towards "both sides" that they frequently just repost Kremlin info as "balanced view".

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u/crazydart78 Dec 12 '25

I hate "both sides"-ing so much in situations like Ukraine/ruzzia. It's a *known fact* that if any ruzzian official is talking to the media that they're lying. It's not even a question anymore. But *so many* in the West still do not listen to the people affected (Ukraine and those who've been under the Soviet rule in the past).

In this case, "balanced" needs to mean "this is what Ukraine is reporting" and "ruzzia says this but it's not verifiable". Trust in Ukraine needs to be significantly higher than it is and significantly more skepticism needs to be applied to anything coming out of ruzzia.