Western media has been using underhanded tactics to drive US and its allies’ political agenda, where they desperately need to make Russia into a villain, and the West into the backers and supporters of ‘good guys’, geopolitical analyst Eric Draitser told RT. A number of Western media outlets have reported Russia has accidentally revealed its soldiers have been fighting in Ukraine. Forbes published an article on Wednesday citing a Russian web source Business Life (Delovaya Zhizn) which revealed “official figures on the number of Russian soldiers killed or made invalids in eastern Ukraine.” RT later received an e-mail purportedly from the editorial board of Business Life claiming the publication had been hacked.
