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Senior Russian officials
“U.S. plans a Holodomor in Ukraine … Russia’s actions have no impact on the world’s food problem.”
Source: Russian state sources, May 11, 2022Read more...Russia’s invasion has disrupted farms and walled off Ukrainian exports that are critical for many countries. -
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Nikolai Patrushev
Secretary of the Russian Security Council
“After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States and its satellites deployed a network of biolaboratories in the space of the former Soviet republics – in Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Armenia …”
Read more...In a swipe at its neighbors, Russia repeats false claims about U.S. biolabs, purposely conflating weapons and legit public health research. -
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Vladimir Putin
Russian president
“You are fighting for the Motherland, for its future, so that no one would forget the lessons of the Second World War, so that there is no place in the world for executioners, butchers and Nazis.”Read more...Russian troops and bombardments have killed thousands of civilians in Ukraine, where Russia’s brutal war mimics the Nazis in WWII. -
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Alexander Lukashenko
Belarusian president
“We categorically do not accept any war. We have done and are doing everything now so that there isn’t a war.”
Read more...Belarus was an eager partner in Russia’s invasion, transiting troops and tanks and providing staging for hundreds of missile launches. -
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Iraj Masjedi
Iran’s ambassador to Iraq
“The Islamic Republic has never reduced Iraqi water source.”
Read more...Iran’s mismanagement of water resources by building dams and diverting rivers is depriving Iraq of water. -
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T-House
Chinese State Media
“A good friend will always have your back (U.S. backstabbing its European allies over Ukraine.)”
Read more...Parroting Russia, the Chinese never fail to falsely blame the U.S. for the death and destruction of the war in Ukraine. -
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Oliver Stone
American filmmaker
“I wonder if the U.S. is setting a stage of a low-yield nuclear explosion … killing thousands of Ukrainians. … [T]o blame Russia… regardless who launched the device.”
Source: Twitter, May 2, 2022Read more...The U.S. has tried to tamp down Russia’s veiled threats about using nuclear weapons against Ukraine. -
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Andrey Klimov
Member of Russian parliament
“Russia is the only country that delivers direct humanitarian aid to people … Sometimes Russian humanitarian caravans are bombed with weapons that NATO supplies to Ukraine.”
Read more...Many countries, and chiefly the United States, are trying to help millions displaced and trapped by Russia’s war. -
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Wang Wenbin
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman
“…[W]hen he (the 14th Dalai Lama) was abroad, he took the liberty of declaring a child as the reincarnation of the Panchen Erdeni … to carry out anti-China separatist political hype to the detriment of religious rituals…”
Read more...The Dalai Lama has the authority to choose the reincarnated Panchen Lama. Beijing has repeatedly violated and manipulated the rituals of Tibetan Buddhism. -
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of Turkey
“There is law in this country, there is a judiciary in this country, and this judiciary has made and will make this decision in line with what it believes and knows so that what is right will prevail.”
Read more...Since the 2016 failed military coup, Turkey has restructured its judicial system to favor Erdogan’s ruling party. -
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Russian Defense Ministry
“Thanks to President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin’s initiative, 80 civilians, including women and children, held by the Ukrainian nationalists have been rescued from the territory of the Azovstal factory in Mariupol.”
Read more...The evacuation was initiated by the United Nations. The Ukrainian troops did not hold the civilians against their will but sheltered them from the Russians. -
![Sergei Naryshkin]()
Sergei Naryshkin
director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
“Washington and Warsaw are working on plans to establish Poland’s tight military-political control over ‘its historical possessions’ in Ukraine.”
