Two hosts on an army-owned TV station falsely claimed that Ukrainian people “faked casualties” in a report that misrepresented footage from a climate change protest in Austria.
The erroneous report by hosts Kanok Ratwongsakul and Teera Tanyapaibul came earlier this week in an episode of their Lao Khao Khon program on the Roya Thai Army’s Channel 5.
“Watch this footage, there’re corpses lying there, we believe they are Ukrainian people … Do you see those bodies in the bags? Some bodies are still moving,” said Kanok, a reporter known for his far-right stance and history of distorted reporting.
“The floor’s hot, maybe,” Teera said.
The footage being shown had nothing to do with Ukraine, where a weeklong Russian invasion is resulting in increasing numbers of civilian dead.
Rather, it showed protesters in the Austrian capital of Vienna at a…
