And they also said they were not going to invade Ukraine as they amassed 100K troops on the border. You should definitely stick with your highly reliable sources of information.
ha ha ha. Do you think the U.S. learned nothing from these failures? That's why they are leaving the fighting to the Ukrainians. They are tired of being on the losing side.
Exclusive: Sources Say Oligarch Funded Scheme to Paint Swastikas in Ukraine Multiple sources tell Rolling Stone that a Ukrainian businessman offered payouts for a false flag operation aimed at bolstering Putin’s claim that Ukraine was a Nazi hotbed In the months before Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, an oligarch with Russian ties allegedly paid for locals to paint swastikas around Kharkiv, sources say. The effort, according to the sources, was part of a false flag operation to exaggerate Ukraine’s Nazi presence at a time when Putin was using it as a pretext for war. The alleged plot, according to multiple sources, involved Pavel Fuks, a real estate, banking, and oil magnate who, the sources claim, was co-opted by Russian security forces to participate. Through intermediaries, Fuks allegedly offered between $500 and $1,500 for street level criminals to vandalize city streets with pro-Nazi graffiti in December, January, and February https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...ssia-ukraine-invasion-nazi-operation-1325817/
At the same time did you expect them to just announce it to everyone? You better worry how Ukrainians will spend your $40,000,000,000 and how quickly they will burn through it, you do realise they are just as corrupt as the Russians that you despise so much.
Well I'm not saying you shouldn't trust Putin but he did start a European war after being rejected by an art college.