Date: Wednesday, 20 August 2025
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/a-top-ukrainian-journalist-is-forced
https://theduran.com/a-top-ukrainian-journalist-is-forced-out-of-ukraine
A Top Ukrainian Journalist is Forced Out of Ukraine by Zelensky Regime:
U.S.-and-Allied Governments Carry Again the Nazi Torch Against Russia.
20 August 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
This is about a top journalist in Ukraine who has been forced to flee because she was reporting the reality in Ukraine, such as (and I have added here links to show visually what she is saying — because there is plenty of other documentation — not only hers) the following:
Every day I receive hundreds of messages from people who are
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asking me to help them to save either their husband or their son from being
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mobilized. People are sending this terrible message, telling my husband went
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into the grocery store and didn't make it back, or he is uh uh he's having
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leukemia and he won't be able to last for three days if he doesn't get the proper medicine. And then I learned that
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he was found dead. And then I hear stories uh from people who are telling
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that their husbands were um arrested by the Secret Service because they wrote
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something in the social network. It sounds like the Russian propaganda
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story, but the fact of the matter is that you don't have to think up anything,
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just simply show what is happening in Ukraine, and that is worse than any
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propaganda. So uh the worst thing is not just the foreign aid coming to a stop. It may not
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be um you know the shortage of missiles or ammunition. The worst thing is what
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is going on in Ukrainians’ minds because you don't have any future. You won't be
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able to leave the country if you want because you're going to be either shot uh or arrested and so, on the one hand
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you are afraid of your government, on the other hand you're afraid of the Russian missiles, on the third uh you are afraid
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of the conscription officers, and being prayers ganked that's the life of
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a simple Ukrainian so the only thing left for us to do is to pray, but unfortunately I see very little
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information about what's truly going on in the country. Hundreds of cathedrals
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were seized. Priests are being taken. 50 priests, according to information
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that I was able to find out, are in prison. I received a terrible letter recently um from a family of Ukrainian
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priests who um uh despite his beliefs was uh conscripted, uh taken to the
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front. Uh uh he's being bullied, he's being um roped to a tree trunk. It's
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difficult to believe anything like that, but if you ever have a chance to get
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into Ukraine, you will see. Uh I can remind you of the case of Gonzalo Lira
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who died in the Ukrainian prison, and it's strange that uh no American media
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is uh u is is discussing his case.
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It it really is and it's just unfortunate that that the only narrative the West seems to be able to talk about
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is whatever Vladimir Zelensky says, whatever Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Ursula of Wonderland, that seems to be
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the exclusive domain that most people ever hear about, and they just don't hear about stuff like you, which is why we're
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very grateful for you.
Ever since America’s bloody lie-packed coup by the Obama Administration grabbed hold of Ukraine’s democratic and committedly neutralist Government and instantly replaced it by a U.S.-appointed rabidly Russia-hating stooge dictatorship where no politician would be allowed to run in elections whom the regime in Washington had not approved of, the war in Ukraine began by the newly-installed thug-controlled regime beating up and shooting and even torturing to death, and even burning to death, opponents of the U.S. coup, and launched an “Anti-Terrorist Operation” to eliminate them.
Here is how this U.S.-Government-created Ukrainian regime is now, as it is being experienced by the people who still live there, as reported by the award-winning Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko, after she escaped:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddQgGCqT6X4
“How Zelensky RUINED Ukraine w/Ukrainian Journalist Diana Panchenko”
16 June 2015
Here is an especially informative (about Panchenko’s background) viewer-comment to that video:
@Vitamin_71
Diana is originally from Nikolaev (Dnipropetrovsk region). As soon as she started talking about the genocide of Russians in Donbass and the theft of Ukrainian authorities, a criminal case was immediately opened against her, and the Nazis threatened to kill her.
Here is what even the CIA-edited and written Wikipedia (which blacklists — blocks from linking to — sites that aren’t CIA-approved) says in its article about Panchenko:
In 2020 she was awarded the "Journalist of the Year" by the Ukrainian program "Person of the Year-2020".[3] The same year she placed 7th in the ranking of "The Most Influential Women in Ukraine according to readers of the Focus website". In 2021, she was nominated for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.[1]
Panchenko worked for the pro-Russian TV-Station NewsOne.[4] Following the outlawing of NewsOne late February 2021,[5] Panchenko moved to its successor The First Independent TV Channel.[6] This channel was shut down an hour after it launched.[7] On 26 February 2021, she co-founded the Journalists' Defense Club movement.[8] Diana was the host of the Slavonic Bazaar music festival, which took place in July 2021 in Vitebsk.[9] After the event, Panchenko was summoned to the National Television and Radio Broadcasting Council for explanations.[10]
At the onset of the war in February 2022, Panchenko condemned Russia's invasion and Vladimir Putin's decision to escalate the already strained relations between Russia and Ukraine. From the very first days of the war, Panchenko called for negotiations stating that "A bad peace is better than a good war".[11][12] She claimed that Ukraine had provoked Russia into a full-scale war and blamed the Ukrainian authorities for all the consequences of the war. Panchenko has continued hosting, including interviewing Aleksandr Lukashenko.[13]
In January 2023, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) declared that it suspected her of producing and disseminating content justifying the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[14] In October 2023, the SBU announced that it was carrying out a pre-trial investigation into Panchenko, suspecting her of high treason committed under martial law.[15][16]
In September 2024, Jeanne Cavelier of Reporters Without Borders described Panchenko's work as follows: "Diana Panchenko is a professional propagandist. …
Reporters Without Borders (“Reporters Sans Frontiers” or RSF) is a front-group (‘non-profit’ or ‘charity’) for U.S.-and-allied international corporations. They ignored Zelensky’s murder of Gonzalo Lira.
Ukraine’s (Zelensky’s) government headlined sliming Panchenko, on 30 August 24, “Goebbels in a Skirt: Exposing Diana Panchenko”. That’s consistent with the expectation that if she had remained in Ukraine, she would have faced an end like Gonzalo Lira (who had had the nerve to report the truth from Ukraine to English-language audiences) did.
In order to understand that all of this is actually the culmination of U.S. President Truman’s decision on 25 July 1945 (carried through by all U.S. Presidents since then except JFK) to set the U.S. Government onto the path of, and ultimately achieve, winning control over the entire world — to become the world’s first-ever all-encompassing empire, just as Hitler had aspired to for Germany, to achieve — click here. It was a decision that Truman made.
If you want to learn more about the U.S.-Government-produced war in Ukraine, going all the way back to what I believe to be its actual ideological start in 1877, from Cecil Rhodes, click here. (Rhodes’s ideology was racist-fascist-nationalist-supremacist imperialism like Hitlers was, but only secretly so, not blatant like Hitler was, and is therefore a more insidious form of nazism than Hitler’s was, and far more devious than Hitler’s, so that Rhodes’s version of racist-fascism was vastly more hypocritical than Hitler’s racist-fascist ideology was.) But, anyway, the post-1945 America comes from Rhodes via Truman, who surrounded himself by Rhodesists and thus brought Rhodes’s ideology to fruition, though Truman might have known nothing about Rhodes. An idiot can carry an ideology even if he doesn’t know what it is. At least Hitler knew what his was.
Of course, Zelensky, as a stooge in the U.S.-UK-Israel empire, is Rhodesist, not Hitlerian. He’s not a Nazi nazi, merely a nazi. And because Rhodesism is far more hypocritical than Hitlerism is, Zelensky has been far more successful at selling himself in ‘democratic’ countries than Hitler ever was.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
