Ukraine: Russo-Ukr War (June-December 2015)

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When the Maidan and then Crimea episodes happened the BBC (all parts) had a large team based in Kiev, some expats, some locals. Those numbers may have dropped since then, due mainly to budget cuts and concerns over health & safety.

The heartburn coming from the social media side is that all of the BBC reporters first went into occupied zone then called the fighting a "civil war" which they still do and then leave back to Moscow via the occupied zone very rarely coming into Kyiv nor have they done much reporting from the UAF side.

And there is not a office at all in Kyiv when other western media have outlets there.

Secondly two articles went sent into the 24 hour news cycle critical of the Ukraine even in the face of social media pointing out they were Russian fakes and BBC did not retract them.

Lastly there is a current feeling that with the massive Russian clamp down on any reporting out of Moscow that does not reflect what Russia wants one will lose their residence visas--there is some truth to that assumption.

BBC has an interesting question to answer--why are they not in Kyiv as a major news outlet OR will that presence be viewed by Moscow as anti Russian thus revoking their visas??

This is an example of one of the BBC reporters comments in his article----and it is not slanted???

BBCNews ... and dismisses reports of Russian Army troops in Ukraine as "allegations" which are "denied by Moscow" ...