Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is built on a lie. And I want everyone in the world to understand that. This whole war – since the annexation of Crimea and fake “referendums” in Donbas in 2014 and up to the full-scale invasion on the 24th of February in 2022 – is based on a terribly, perversly fake pretense. Russian president as well as many Russian politicians on many occasions said that Russian speakers in Ukraine were somehow oppressed or that they are threatened by Ukrainian nationalists. This is the most absurdist nonsense I have ever heard in my lifetime. This I am saying as a person who was speaking predominantly Russian for the most part of my life.

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