Praise be to Saint Javelin, Patron Saint of NAFO. 🤪
Back to reality.
Russia has spent a lot of time and effort on its propaganda justifying invading Ukraine. The Rand corporation had a study titled The Russian "Firehose of Falsehood" Propaganda Model. Russia just constantly spews fake stories to justify its actions, across multiple channels, just to drown out the opposition. Recognizing it, what and who the channels a re, is part of countering it.
Ukraine is being invaded, of course they are going to make things up and embellish stories. They are being invaded! With all the social media and Open Source Intelligence, figuring out what is really going on in the Ukraine side is easier than for the Russian. The Russian side is just constant nonsense. Like stealing French Caesar howitzers to Russia right after Ukraine started using them, or destroying so many HIMARs there aren't any left in all of Europe.
Take what Ukraine says with a grain or sack of salt. Assume Russia is lying until proven otherwise as far as I'm concerned.
