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![Yevgeny Tomikhin]()
Yevgeny Tomikhin
Russian Ambassador to Thailand
"Europeans still don't understand that Russia is saving them [from] Nazism. It was done in 1945, and now we are facing another threat of Nazism in Europe."
Read more...As Russian rhetoric and actions take on a fascist bent, Moscow’s claims to be fighting Nazis in Ukraine appears to be pure projection. -
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Xinhua news agency
Chinese state press agency
“Manipulating these journalists to misrepresent China and stir up ideological bias against the country has once again revealed that so-called ‘press freedom’ touted by the Western media is just a handy tool to advance a narrow political agenda.”
Read more...The Chinese Communist Party projects its own centralized, manipulated and unfree media model onto the “Western media.” -
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Various Russian state-affiliated news sites and social media accounts
“In Sevastopol, Ukrainian nationalists beat up a 70-year-old pensioner who pasted the letter Z on his car… the elderly man was hospitalized with numerous injuries and a dislocated leg, now he is being treated on an outpatient basis.”
Read more...Video from the grocery store shows one man slapping another in the face, then walking out, with no apparent injuries to the slapped man, a retired security agent. -
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RIA Novosti
Russian state news agency
“Russian muftis expressed support for the special operation in Ukraine and called it a forced preventive defensive measure, ‘based on the Holy Quran’.”
Read more...Russia’s war in Ukraine is neither ‘preventative’ nor ‘defensive.’ The Kremlin first invaded in 2014 and launched an all-out attack on February 24, 2022. -
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Ramzan Kadyrov
head of Chechen Republic
“Our people were used by the West in their attempt to break up Russia.”
Read more...The Russian army leveled entire cities and killed many, many thousands of people in two wars against Chechnya, where ruler Kadyrov is a Kremlin puppet. -
![Sebby Sambom]()
Sebby Sambom
TPNPB-OPM spokesman
“Russia's attack on Ukraine is natural and reasonable because the Ukrainian government, through its military and police forces, carried out genocide against indigenous Ukrainians in two regions that wanted their own independence.”
Read more...The Ukraine invasion is not a war for independence or liberation; Russia has invented false justifications for the conflict. -
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Russian Ministry of Defense
"With a high degree of probability, we can say that one of the tasks of the United States and its allies is the creation of bioagents that can selectively affect various ethnic groups of the population."
Read more...There are no biological weapons production facilities in Ukraine, U.S.-run or otherwise, and no “ethnic” bioagents. -
![Zhao Lijian]()
Zhao Lijian
Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman
“According to data released by the U.S., it has 26 bio-labs and other related facilities in Ukraine, over which the U.S. Department of Defense has absolute control… the biological military activities of the U.S. in Ukraine are merely the tip of the iceberg.”
Read more...U.S.-linked biological research labs are not bioweapon labs, and they are owned and run by the Ukrainian government. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian foreign minister
"We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn't attack Ukraine in the first place.”
Read more...A majority of Russians appear to support the war against Ukraine. Their alternate world of disinformation may explain why. -
![Mikhail Ulyanov]()
Mikhail Ulyanov
Russian nuclear ambassador
"Russia has always been a driving force, not an obstacle in the course of the [Iran nuclear] negotiations."
Read more...Under heavy sanctions for attacking Ukraine, Russia is throwing a wrench into negotiations to limit Iran’s nuclear program. -
![Sergey Lavrov]()
Sergey Lavrov
Russian foreign minister
“On March 7, three days ago, our delegation presented evidence at a session of the U.N. Security Council that the maternity hospital in question had long been seized by the Azov battalion and other radicals. All expectant mothers, all nurses and other personnel had been driven out.”
Read more...Even as footage shows injured women being carried away, Lavrov spins hospital as a legitimate military target. -
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Vladimir Putin
President of Russia
“They carried out a coup d’etat. They supported those who carried out the coup. Then followed the well-known events related to Crimea and southeastern Ukraine, Donbas, whose residents refused to support the coup."
Read more...At a rambling photo-op, Putin rehashed the fake historical narrative he’s constructed to justify attacking Ukraine.
