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Distortion of the events in Odesa had eventually become a tool of Russian propaganda in respect of the war waged by the Russian Federation against Ukraine since February 2022,
said the ruling
The duty incumbent on the authorities was, at its most general level, to do what could reasonably be expected of them to avert the risk of violence,
the court said, stressing
The Court considers that such disinformation and propaganda might have had an impact on the tragic events in the present cases too… The pro-Russian ‘Kulykove Pole’ movement in Odesa relied heavily on aggressive and emotional disinformation and propaganda messages about the new Ukrainian government and Maidan supporters voiced by Russian authorities and mass media,
the ruling states