Launching a "special military operation" is starting a war. You can call it a "pacifist peace offering operation", and it's still starting a war.
What Puta calls his starting of the war is irrelevant.
Nobody expected him to say the truth, or am I mistaken?
Sure, but now it’s in print (or at least digitally published), so later on there’s a mountain of journalism, this bit included, that says that he denies any wrongdoing. Every bit of getting his doublespeak out to the public helps
Test that theory. Leave Ukraine and see how much longer the war continues.
Including Crimea
Yep, out of Ukraine.
“No no no…. That convoy wasn’t tanks, it was FARM EQUIPMENT!” -Putin.
“Well, it’s farm equipment….now”- Ukrainian Farmers
Russian officials have literally said they're going to commit Ukrainian genocide and go after Poland next but sure they're the victim /s
Wake up honey new hexbear talking points just dropped
Run that through the good old projection filter real quick...
... Ah, shit.
Cool story, blyat.
You can put "Putin lies" in the title, Reuters. He isn't going to sue you.
This "article" is three sentences with line breaks so they look like paragraphs.
This is what passes for journalism these days.
I’m guessing that Reuters request for an interview was turned down. Sometimes all you need is three lines. If this was a CNN article or Fox News it would be 10 paragraphs of saying nothing but recapping Russia’s invasion of Ukraine while also adding this in. I find it to be a fine article to point out how Putin is interacting with his international cohorts. It’s to the point and says what needs to be said
I didn't rape you, I had sex with you to prevent you from whoring yourself!!!!
Can we collectively start down voting all the headlines that boil down to "world leader makes meaningless propaganda statement"
The admins would remove it as an opinion piece if a reporter made such a claim but it's somehow different if they hold office?
If a reporter had millions of soldiers, thousands of nuclear weapons, a submarine fleet, the world's largest standing tank deployment.. at their beck and call, to enforce their every whim, then yes the mad reporters ravings would be newsworthy.
Hexbear strategy. Patently false, as is standard.
Pathetic little bitch.
"If I keep repeating the lie, then eventually someone will believe me" - Putin
Plenty of Christians do.
I don’t get it why people still even gives a damn to what he has to say. He’s a war criminal and he DID start a war, no matter how much him and his bots blame NATO.
He deserves to be arrested together with his supporters.
so we did pushed your tanks over the border? Did you take your medicine today Vlad? Does telling a lie again and again really works that well in Russia?
Worlds biggest bull shitter spews more shit, news at 11 lol. Don't need more territory then I guess can give Crimea back.
Of course not. They started a special military operation. Ukraine started the war when they fought back!
assertion
That's a really strange way to spell "blatant lie".
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oct 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
In his yearly speech to the Valdai Discussion Club, being held in Sochi, Putin said Russia, the world's largest country by area, had no need to take territory from Ukraine.
He said the conflict was not therefore imperial or territorial but about the global order, and that the West, which had lost its hegemonic power and always needed an enemy, had lost touch with reality.
The original article contains 100 words, the summary contains 100 words. Saved 0%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Despicable piece of human excrement.
I’m usually all for inclusion in most chases, but I really think that the mentally handicap have no business in politics. Between this guy and trump… they need to be in padded rooms and medicated.
Picture the generic Russian nesting doll, except inside each layer of the head of state is his own most useful idiot
Up is down, grass is blue, the sky is green. Bla bla bla. It's high time we just started treating anything Putin says as the equivalent of farts in a paper bag.
Can we put him in one cell with Trump? They would be a perfect match, two egomaniacs with a severe lack of memory...
He also insists he is 7 feet tall, has a 7 inch dong, and isn’t gay.
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