Kremlin Propaganda Themes of the Week: Oleshky, Russia-Africa Summit and a Call to Putin
An Apollo.lv video review of last week's Kremlin propaganda messaging says the main themes were a humanitarian mission in occupied Oleshky, a Russia-Africa summit and a phone call to Putin from Norwegian and Finnish leaders.
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A video review titled "Behind the Curtain" on the Latvian news site Apollo.lv summarises the topics that dominated Russian state propagandists' messaging over the past week. The headline of the review states that talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are possible only in Moscow. That is the Kremlin side's line, and the review's authors do not add further conditions to it.
Main themes
The first theme was a humanitarian mission in Oleshky, a Ukrainian city occupied by Russia.
The second was a Russia-Africa summit.
The third was a telephone call to Putin made by the prime minister of Norway and the president of Finland. The review refers to Putin as the Kremlin's dictator.
What it means
The review aims to show which messages Kremlin propagandists pushed to their audience during the week. The available information does not include details of how the mission went, who took part in the summit or what was said in the call, so those points cannot be clarified here.
