The Russian president insisted that US information retailers usually distort actuality
Russian President Vladimir Putin has inspired reporters to learn the American media much less. The comment got here throughout a press convention within the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek in response to a query about reviews that the Russian Kant air base in Kyrgyzstan had been deserted as a result of battle in Ukraine.
“American media retailers are saying that every one the gear is in Ukraine, and that the [Kant] base is abandoned,” claimed an Izvestia journalist on the press convention. He didn’t specify which US retailers had made such claims.
“You’re studying the American media in useless,” Putin instructed the reporter who had requested the query. “First, they fairly often distort actuality – simply hearken to the previous president of the USA. Hearken to him, he offers you a superb description of the present stage of growth of the American media,” the president mentioned, apparently referring to Donald Trump and including that American media will “educate you unhealthy issues.”
Putin insisted that the Kant army base stays lively and continues to behave as a “deterrent issue for varied extremists.” He added that there’s additionally an lively aviation unit there which incorporates fight plane and helicopters.
“They’re at Kant, on fight responsibility and repair,” Putin mentioned.
On Thursday, the Russian chief, collectively together with his Kyrgyz counterpart Sadyr Japarov, took half in a ceremony devoted to the twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Kant base.
Through the ceremony, Putin declared that Russia will proceed to supply the bottom with probably the most fashionable weapons and promised to resolve all the problems that the army personnel serving on the base might have.
The Russian president’s go to to Kyrgyzstan marks the primary time he has traveled overseas for the reason that Worldwide Legal Courtroom issued an arrest warrant for him earlier this yr. Subsequent week, Putin is anticipated to journey to China to satisfy with President Xi Jinping through the worldwide Belt and Street discussion board.
(RT.com)
