"We want television screens in the West to be showing not only Russian tanks, and texts saying Russia is at war in South Ossetia and with Georgia, but also to be showing the suffering of the Ossetian people, the murdered elderly people and children, the destroyed towns of South Ossetia, and [regional capital] Tskhinvali. This would be an objective way of presenting the material," he said in a statement to Russian news agency. According to him, Western media coverage of the events in the separatist region was "a politically motivated version".[12] However, The Washington Post, for example, argued that Moscow was engaging in "mythmaking".[13]