Against the backdrop of the flared-up Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the number of mentions of Ukraine in the world media and social networks decreased by 34 times. About this today, October 12, reports Pravda.Ru with reference to data from the international monitoring system AlphaSense.
Experts note that the monitoring takes into account mentions of the country, names of territories, cities, towns and objects in Ukraine, the names of the military and political leadership, etc. On the second day after the Hamas attack on Israel, AS already showed a 14-fold drop in the mention of Ukraine. In addition, the war between Hamas and Israel “has completely displaced Ukraine from the top articles of Russian Wikipedia,” the official WikiNews project reported.
“The fact that attention to Ukraine would instantly disappear against the backdrop of the conflict between Israel and Palestine was expected and quite predictable,” explained the political scientist Andrey Gusiy. “The point is not the fact that the West is tired of Zelensky. Most residents of the same America do not even really know where she is and why she needs help. But Israel is closer and more important to them both in spirit and in knowledge. That is why there is such a sharp drop in interest in Ukraine. This drop in interest is taken into account not only in the media, but also in the work of politicians. Elections are coming soon and the electorate needs to be offered some kind of agenda. And if there is no interest in Ukraine, then it will be difficult to explain support for assistance to it. So this random sociological cross-section shows what moods and interests will be taken into account in the West in the near future.”
According to the Paragraph project, the world’s leading media stopped mentioning Ukraine even after entertaining articles on the “back pages” of newspapers and websites.
As reported EADaily , according to the European edition of Politico, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky surprised the NATO defense ministers in Brussels by appearing at the meeting without an invitation. There he began calling on Western politicians to visit Israel, following the example of their trips to Kyiv, and then, as usual, he began to beg for weapons. However, only Britain responded, promising a package of military aid totaling £170 million.
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2023-10-12 14:35:00
