While some countries are keen on making peace and restoring stability exerting great efforts to end conflicts through mediation bringing warring parties to table, a sharp division and escalation in some crises and wars take the conflicts to other levels, as is the case in the Russia-Ukraine war.
No doubt that the major victims of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war are the civilians and innocent people losing their lives, properties and over a million having been displaced or turning overnights into refugees seeking asylum in neighbouring countries.
Truth also remains one of the key victims of wars and the current war in Ukraine is no exception. The war has made media lose its credibility and professionalism due to sharp division of positions leaving no place for gray area either it is pro or against thus turning media outlets into tools for disinformation and huge propaganda mechanism.
When media outlets turn into a destructive tool of propaganda and incitement victimising the truth and leaving people confused, they making it difficult for people to know what is happening on the ground. While visual media screens of terrifying scenes tell horrible stories, the other side of broadcast content is discrediting what seen and heard attributing that to a different time and place rather than the place talked about.
A number of videos are being spread through social media platforms in which both the warring countries claim of their victories in the battleground. Some videos on digital space have been recognized as old videos of different conflicts in the world having no relation at all with the current situation. Even pictures and videos of Palestinian children confronting the Israeli occupying forces, after being ignored for long, have found a new value for the propaganda war.
The Russia-Ukraine war has revealed many negative aspects of digital and traditional media, due to the division of Western countries over the war and blindly supporting and instigating one side against the other, and media divided along these divisions to pour oil on the fire.
People on both fronts are levelling charges of spreading fake news on each other while the supporters on the global front also trading such accusations. In the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, truth was not the only victim, because the war has revealed other ugly dimensions of double standards, racist statements and discriminations even among people fleeing the war.
United Nations organizations have revealed many cases of racial discrimination against Africans, Arabs and Indians fleeing the war, looking for safe havens in the neighbouring countries of Ukraine.
