Your original assertion was that Sputnik fabricated the story. Thanks for admitting your error. Sputnik is simply reporting what is being said in Moscow just as the British press publish the "Russia is losing" trash, fed to them by MI6.
Josef Stalin would have called you a “useful idiot” for propagating Kremlin propaganda in the West and thus aiding Russia’s policy of aggression against Ukraine.
Russia is a country which is attempting to resurrect its Christian heritage but is confronted all across its western perimeter by the armed forces of godless, secular humanist, western armies whose aim is to turn Russia into a Slavic version of Canada; a tame, woke, homosexual marriage-embracing, resource-rich, liberal sewer. Problem is, Russia won't go quietly. Ukraine is simply the meat in the sandwich in the proxy war between the globalists and Russia.
I wonder what it is that Sweden and Finland don’t know, but you do know, with regard to Russia’s end goal? With the USA out of the picture, do you honestly think Russia just stops at Ukraine, and you’re willing to take Putin’s word at face value? Were you born yesterday?
For some folks, it will always be 1962.
Oh dear. You've really drunk the Kremlin's Kool Aid! Another American did that and went over there to help and look what just happened to him:
An American who won fame and infamy after joining the Russian armed forces and fighting in Ukraine has been found dead in Russian-controlled territory.
"American Z-blogger Russell Bentley (call sign Texas), who was kidnapped in the "DPR" and had been fighting in the ranks of pro-Russian militants since 2014, was raped and then killed by his fellow soldiers. The American's death was reported by his Russian wife.
Bentley was kidnapped 10 days ago by "unknown people in military uniforms" who mistook him for a NATO spy. After that, communication with him was lost. Some Russian war correspondents suggested that after the rape, one of the officers said that it was no longer possible to let the American go, so they decided to kill him."
The Russians are not defending traditional Russian values and Orthodox Christianity by attacking and subjugating Ukraine. They are just cynical lying hypocrites using that narrative as cover for their greed and sadism.