He described several cases at the impacts of the Russian Federation, when law enforcement officers closed access to media representatives who tried to tell the world what happened.
One of these cases occurred after a missile strike at the Okhmatdet children's hospital in Kyiv. Then the policeman said that the difference between law enforcement officers and journalists is that the former “protect people”, and the latter “earn on suffering.” Such words, he says, had to hear before.
During a missile strike in Kyiv on April 24, the law enforcement officer beat on the cell of one of the press representatives and interfered with working, exposing the restrictive tape, Lukatsky noted.
“It seems that the police started a war against journalists. They hide shelling. They hide destruction. They do not let the world see,” he wrote.
The journalist recalled how he worked in Gaza and how the people there carried the wounded to the cameras to show this to the world. It was also at the beginning of a full -scale war in Ukraine, when the then Minister of the Interior Denis Monastyrsky understood that “Ukraine would lose” without a press, “and contributed to the coverage of events from the hottest spots. After the death of Monastyrsky, this changed, and Ukraine began to lose the information war, because “there is a simple truth: there were no journalists – there was no event.”
While Russia spends millions of dollars on propaganda, in Ukraine it is increasingly sounding “journalists not to let in”, because “too bloody,” said Lukatsky.
“It seems that the police are working against the truth. They like the new message created by the Kremlin: Ukrainian journalists earn blood on blood. And instead of help, we need to interfere. Russian propaganda is very grateful for this. If this does not change, we will remain alone. The world will turn away,” he emphasized.
According to Lukatsky, he covered the activities of the police for many years, knows honest officers and generals – they are now at the front. He turned to the police managers, noting that the journalist with accreditation of the Ministry of Defense often has experience in hot spots more than many officers, so “he must be perceived as a rescuer and help him.”
Lukatsky also drew the attention of Ukraine responsible for the information policy of Ukraine to the need to “urgently change narratives and be proud of their journalists,” 91 of which have already died in this war.
