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![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister
“[T]he fact that they are literally not just being pumped up with weapons, but are being forced to use these weapons in a more and more risky way, the fact that foreign instructors and specialists are sitting there … is practically no secret anymore.”
Read more...In fact, Ukraine has pleaded for weapons to defend itself against an illegal invasion. Training on longer-range rockets is happening outside Ukraine. -
![Ayatollah Ali Khamenei]()
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader
“If the way is opened for NATO, it will recognize no limits. If it hadn’t been stopped in #Ukraine, it would have later started a similar war in #Crimea.”
Read more...Khamenei ignores Russia’s military seizure of Crimea in 2014. Russia faced no threat from NATO or Ukraine when it invaded in February. -
![Vladimir Putin]()
Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“I'll tell you why Canada did it: because it produces oil and gas itself and plans to enter the European market."
Read more...Canada is merely fixing equipment used to move natural gas in Europe, and Western sanctions don’t apply. -
![Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus]()
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Belarus
“According to local authorities, no military funerals and burials of foreign soldiers have been registered in this settlement.”
Read more...A memorial to Polish soldiers did exist in the town of Mikulishki, Belarus. In fact, it was destroyed. -
![RIA Novosti]()
RIA Novosti
“Americans supported Putin after Bolton's words about coups.”
Read more...Russian state news promoted suspicious tweets as representative of U.S. opinion. In reality, most Americans have a harsh view of President Putin. -
![Aleksei Kutsurbenko]()
Aleksei Kutsurbenko
Investigator, Donetsk People’s Republic
“[C]loser to the day of the tragedy, there were actually no civilians left in the drama theater.”
Read more...Casualty estimates vary, but abundant evidence shows that civilians died in the theater when Russian bombs struck. -
![Russian Embassy in Egypt]()
Russian Embassy in Egypt
“The Biden administration is mired in lies, covering up the U.S. desire for global hegemony and theft of the national wealth of other countries, including in Africa. Moreover, on this path, many of them are especially exposed to the threat of starvation …”
Read more...In fact, the United States is the biggest contributor to world food aid programs. Russia’s war on Ukraine has disrupted global grain and fertilizer supplies. -
![Chinese Communist Youth League]()
Chinese Communist Youth League
Affiliated organization of the Chinese Commuist Party
“It’s been exposed that the United States has been collecting cholera pathogens in Ukraine.”
Read more...The Kremlin routinely portrays routine public health work as evidence of U.S. bioweapons, a claim that’s been debunked time and again. -
![Erick Tsang]()
Erick Tsang
Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs
“In fact, democracy has taken a quantum leap forward since the return to the motherland in 1997.”
Read more...Civil society, free speech and political participation have all taken a massive hit in Hong Kong’s national security crackdown. -
![Dmitry Peskov]()
Dmitry Peskov
Spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin
“The special military operation is not against the Ukrainians. It’s against the regime, while at the same time, very many Ukrainians actually want to become citizens of the Russian Federation."
Read more...Russia's indiscriminate bombardments are killing Ukrainians daily, and the Kremlin has been forcibly imposing Russian citizenship on Ukrainians. -
![Dmitry Polyanskiy]()
Dmitry Polyanskiy
Russian first deputy U.N. ambassador
"The picture, which our Western counterparts are trying to present, that Russia is allegedly against the mechanism of cross-border aid and is against the extension of this mechanism are [sic] absolutely false.”
Read more...Russia wants to use international humanitarian aid to strengthen President Basar al-Assad’s control over Syrian territories. -
![Nikolai Vavilov]()
Nikolai Vavilov
Russian sinologist
“What is happening now is a political assassination, sewn with white thread, actually carried out by the hands of the Americans, to show, most importantly, to other leaders, who is next.”
