The channel was reporting about the talks between President Obama and Chancellor Merkel.
Well there's even too accurate Freudian slip.;) @russian_market: CNN is calling #Ukrainian Army as pro-U.S. troops. pic.twitter.com/O90ZZNg2k7
— Harri K. (@HVKarpen) 9 февраля 2015
The two leaders have been considering the possibility of supplying lethal weapons to the Ukrainian government.
While everyone's discussing CNN's Freudian slip, I noticed another—#Crimea is no longer part of #Ukraine. Oops! #крым pic.twitter.com/FiXRUpUact
— Nina Byzantina (@NinaByzantina) 9 февраля 2015
The channel’s captions team headlined it as “Obama considers arming pro-US troops”, implying that Ukraine's soldiers, currently embroiled in a civil conflict with breakaway regions in the east of the country, were in fact pursuing US foreign policy.
@dmitry_linnik The mask slips Now CNN is calling Ukrainian Army as pro-U.S. troops. pic.twitter.com/8PC7qi3ZwK
— hossam Ahmed (@hossama0901) 9 февраля 2015
The text was kept on for several minutes before and during CNN's Carol Costello interview with Lt. Col. James Reese on Monday morning.
Watching CNN, I can't believe my own eyes eyes: the army of Ukraine is called in the subtitle "pro-U.S, troops"! pic.twitter.com/on0oXr7Z42
— Oleg Yaroshin (@OleOleOleOleg) 9 февраля 2015
This has long been the assertion of many Russian onlookers who see the current government in Kiev as the product of a Washington-engineered coup.
CNN’s blunder was immediately spotted by viewers – and went viral on Twitter; it was hailed as a “Freudian slip” and one commented, "the mask slips.”
