MOSCOW, August 4 (RIA Novosti) - Polish media expressed little interest in covering Warsaw’s public action to commemorate the victims of the May 2 Odessa tragedy in Ukraine, the president of Poland’s European Center for Geopolitical Analysis, Mateusz Piskorski, said Monday.
“Regrettably, now, as well as right after the Odessa tragedy of May 2, Polish mass media has expressed no interest in what was going on,” Piskorski, who was the initiator of the public action in Warsaw, said in an interview with International Information Agency Rossiya Segodnya, adding that the media was well aware of the date and place of the event.
Piskorski explained that in Poland “any attempts to say what is really going on in Ukraine with the victims of Kiev’s policies, are now facing silent censorship from the country’s main media. It’s obvious that most of the time instead of informing their readers and spectators, the Polish media is taking part in the information war.”
According to Piskorski, the attitude of Polish society toward the situation in Ukraine is likely to change soon, as it is becoming more and more apparent that Nazi groups in Ukraine are now openly demanding a revision of the country’s borders with Poland and the return of the Polish cities of Przemysl and Rzheshov to Ukraine. Piskorski said the claims of Ukrainian radical nationalists “just have to arouse Polish public opinion.”
According to official data, 48 people died in a fire that followed the clashes between the pro-independence activists and football fans, later joined by Euromaidan activists, on May 2, 2014 in Odessa. The local authorities insist that the death toll was at least 116 people.
On Saturday, August 2, citizens of Warsaw, Paris, Rome, Madrid, Brussels, Vienna and many other European cities gathered to honor the memory of the victims.
