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Journalist sacked for doing actual journalism at EU press conference (europeanjournalists.org)

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News is from last year, but it's still dystopic for anyone that missed it:

At a European Commission press briefing in Brussels on 13 October, Nunziati asked the spokesperson Paula Pinho: “You’ve repeatedly said that Russia should pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Do you think Israel should also pay for the reconstruction of Gaza, given that it destroyed much of the Strip and its civilian infrastructure?”

on 27 October, the journalist received a letter terminating his working relationship with the news agency, which, however, did not specify the reasons for this decision.

The Agenzia Nova news agency told Fanpage.it that Nunziati’s question was “completely out of place and technically incorrect” and had created “embarrassment for the agency”

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[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Thousands of children have been deported to the Russian Federation or transferred to occupied areas in Ukraine by Russian authorities, according to the Commission. It has so far verified the deportation or transfer of over 1,200 children from five regions in Ukraine.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/un-commission-concludes-deportation-and-forcible-transfer-ukrainian-children

Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, an estimated 20,000 Ukrainian childrenhave been unlawfully deported and forcibly transferred to Russia and the temporarily occupied territories.

https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-solidarity-ukraine/bringing-ukrainian-children-back-home_en

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/12/1166507

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-expands-forced-re-education-deported-ukrainian-children-us-research-shows-2025-09-16/

[+] Riverside@reddthat.com -12 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The "estimated 20.000" figure comes directly from the Ukrainian government, and as I claimed, hasn't been independently verified. The 1.200 by OHCHR is likely true as they claim are confirmed independently (thank you for your source), and while I thoroughly condemn it, I wouldn't argue it amounts to genocide. Forcible removals of custody from children are something Roma people are forced to in Europe very regularly, and while a disgusting practice, I wouldn't agree that it amounts to genocide.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (7 children)

At least four out of five criteria are documented. And while I think Russia/Ukraine and Isreal/Palestine are not comparable in a lot of aspects, what Russia is trying to achieve still does look like an attempt at genocide.

The Genocide Convention recognizes five distinct genocidal acts:

killing members of the group,
causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group,
deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part,
imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group, and
forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

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