Reuters takes a moment to criticize laws passed in Ukrainian parliament honouring Holocaust perpetrators - what is everyone else doing?

After months of constant daily anti-Russian propaganda, a few stories of late criticising the Kiev government have slipped through the mainstream media.

Radio Free Europe published an investigative piece exposing Poroshenko’s corruption, and only a day later Reuters came out with a story criticising Kiev government for passing laws that honour Ukrainian Nazi collaborators from WWII.

Reuters’ complaint is that the Kiev government is validating the fact that the country is overrun by neo-Nazis, and essentially making the job harder for the likes of Reuters to keep defending their atrocities.

Reuters expresses its concerns with story "Vladimir Putin Calls Ukraine Fascist and Country's New Law Helps Make His Case":

As Ukraine continues its battle against separatists, corruption and a collapsing economy, it has taken a dangerous step that could further tear the country apart: Ukraine’s parliament, the Supreme Rada, passed a draft law last month honoring organizations involved in mass ethnic cleansing during World War Two. The draft law — which is now on President Petro Poroshenko’s desk awaiting his signature — recognizes a series of Ukrainian political and military organizations as “fighters for Ukrainian independence in the 20th century” and bans the criticism of these groups and their members. (The bill doesn’t state the penalty for doing so.)



Two of the groups honored — the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) — helped the Nazis carry out the Holocaust while also killing close to 100,000 Polish civilians during World War Two. The law is part of a recent trend of contemporary Ukrainian nationalism promoted by those on the extreme right to break with the country’s Communist past and emphasize Ukraine’s suffering under the Soviet regime.



In addition to the moral problem of forbidding the criticism of Holocaust perpetrators, the law hinders Ukraine’s European ambitions — and validates Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claims that the country is overrun by neo-Nazis.

Story was also carried by Jerusalem Post where it was headlined "Putin says Ukraine being overrun by fascists - and he may be right."