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Sputnik News
Sputnik News headline
“Buffalo Shooter's Manifest Has Nazi Symbol Previously Used by Azov Battalion”
Read more...Alleged shooter in racial attack expressed sympathy with Russia, not Azov Regiment, in online manifesto. -
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Vassily Nebenzia
Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations
“The Russian Armed Forces are making every effort to protect children during the course of their special military operation in Ukraine.”
Read more...Russia’s military has bombarded schools and forcibly deported children to Russia; soldiers stand accused of sexual violence against children. -
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Global Times/RT
Chinese state-run news media
“[H]e publicly accused the Ukrainian army of chaos, looting and incompetence.”
Read more...Statements by “Wali,” a Canadian veteran who volunteered to fight in Ukraine, were exaggerated. Wali later said he'd erred. -
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Dmitry Rogozin
Head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency
“Elon Musk is involved in supplying the fascist forces in Ukraine with military communications.”
Read more...Elon Musk’s satellite internet did help Ukraine’s military – but also schools and hospitals. Saying Musk helped ‘fascists’ is a smear job. -
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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.
