Guardian Retracts Anti-Russian Story Based on ‘Research’ of Own Reporter

‘The Guardian was forced to correct an article claiming Russian military units fired on the Ukrainian Army from inside the Russian border after Sputnik news agency learned the newspaper’s reporter had himself jointly authored the research on which the story was based.

On Tuesday Eliot Higgins, a self-styled “citizen journalist” wrote a joint news article with the Guardian’s Diplomatic Editor, Julian Borger, based on a study published by the so-called “Bellingcat investigative group”. Under the headline “Russia shelled Ukrainians from within its own territory, says study” Higgins and Borger detail the claims made by the group based on “self-taught” analysis of satellite maps freely available on the internet.’

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