Ofcom said it had launched an investigation. RT also received criticism after publishing a story based on a document found on a conspiracy website, which stated that the RAND Corporation was advising the Ukrainian government to carry out "ethnic cleansing" and set up internment camps for eastern Ukrainians. RT reporter Sara Firth resigned in protest against the network's coverage of the crash, which she said was heavily biased. She stated, "We are lying every single day at RT. There are a million different ways to lie, and I really learned that at RT." Der Spiegel wrote that Ivan Rodionov, the head of RT's video news agency Ruptly, "[defended] President Vladimir Putin so vehemently that one could be forgiven for confusing him with a Kremlin spokesperson." Having reported Rodionov's claim that the Ukrainian government held "radical right-wing views", Der Spiegel noted that his news site "featured "right-wing radicals like Britain's Nick Griffin or German far-right extremist Olaf Rose, an ideologist with the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party (NPD), stirring up hatred towards the European Union and its Ukraine policies." In 2015, RT falsely reported that Ukrainian officers had the right to shoot deserters. Glenn Greenwald said that RT was no worse than the leading British media but Casey Michel stated "This trope – stating that all outlets are equally biased, and equally fallacious – exists firmly within the camp of whataboutism". The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies described RT and Sputnik News as "vital elements of the Russian propaganda machine". The Interpretermag.com said that some Russian reporters were involved in serious violations of journalism ethics. After LifeNews approvingly filmed the abuse of Ukrainian POWs by pro-Russian forces, Dunja Mijatović of the OSCE said that the station's portrayal amounted to "unethical and inadmissible reporting" and an "abuse of journalists' rights and privileges". Some Russian media have been accused of employing whataboutism as a response to criticism of Russia's actions in Ukraine. The firing of Galina Timchenko, chief editor of Russian news website Lenta.ru, after she published an interview with one of Right Sector's leaders, Andriy Tarasenko, was cited by western media as an incident of censorship. She also faced pressure to use material from Russia's state-run media. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty wrote that Russia-24's editing of RFERL's interviews was "a useful case study in how a video's context can be shifted to represent one particular point of view." Rossiya Segodnya published an interview