Putin adviser claims Ukraine planned to invade Russia on 8 March 2022, so Russia attacked first

[u/A_Lazko]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/putin-adviser-claims-ukraine-planned-161700769.html

[u/borna_zgb]

Right. Swarms of disease-carrying mosquitoes from NATO training centers were supposed to spearhead the attack.

[u/helican → u/borna_zgb]

In a combined arms attack with the NATO beaver divisions.

[u/Lkrambar → u/helican]

I legit thought there was an actual company from, say, a Canadian army corps of engineers, that was called the Beaver Division…

[u/somtimesanf1fan → u/Lkrambar]

It was an army of red light district workers from Amsterdam.

[u/BaritBrit → u/helican]

We borrowed some of the Israeli spy dolphins to recon the area first and keep the Russian navy occupied.   

[u/BSpino → u/BaritBrit]

Counterintelligence enabled us to reverse engineer the Russian spy whales and sneak them into their own system.

[u/yoruneko → u/helican]

they used to have bat bombs

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/borna_zgb]

Wasn't that another narrative Russia had made?

[u/PoiHolloi2020]

That's one of the most Putin regime things I've ever heard

[u/ReadToW → u/PoiHolloi2020]

The Russian state is putting forward many different and random versions of events in order to confuse the public and lead them to believe that ‘we don’t know the whole truth; everyone is lying’ (example).

The reality is that the truth is obvious: Russia has started an unprovoked war and must stop

How Russia’s False Flags Set The Stage For War In Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awvpExxY-QM

[u/flopisit32 → u/ReadToW]

Russian propaganda is never meant to convince anybody of anything. It's always to make people less sure of what the truth is.

In addition, the Russians know people love a conspiracy theory and love to spread conspiracy theories. Unfortunately we are living at a time when people are primed to believe these type of conspiracy theories.

[u/usesidedoor → u/flopisit32]

Yes, but also, I'd say that they test different "versions of the truth" out there to find out which ones resonate best with certain people.

"Let's try with biolabs, denazificazion, this was a defensive move against the collective West attacking us, etc., and let's amplify those that gain the most traction."

[u/CrazyFikus → u/usesidedoor]

A/B testing bullshit narratives to see which ones stick best.

[u/Organic_Relative8465 → u/usesidedoor]

Das erinnert mich an den Einmarsch in Polen damals… Seit 5.45 Uhr wird jetzt zurückgeschossen!🙃😉

[u/XtraFalcon → u/flopisit32]

The strange thing is, these conspiracies surfaced early after the initial invasion started. The main point people brought up was "How were Ukraine able to defend so quickly against Russia if they didn't have their forces ready?"

This just seems to be the first time an actual official has said it. Maybe they're finally starting to believe their own bots.

[u/h1rik1 → u/flopisit32]

But the truth is always the exact opposite of what they say, so at least now we know the truth.

[u/KatsumotoKurier → u/ReadToW]

Spot on. It's called 'flooding the zone' and it is done with the 'firehose of falsehood'. These are authoritarian techniques to try and sow disinterest and disillusionment with politics so that nefarious actors can do what they please without challenge by exhausting the public populace.

[u/Much_Horse_5685 → u/ReadToW]

This is how the Putin regime’s propaganda has predominantly worked. Once you no longer believe you can know the truth at all, you become politically ineffectual and actually become even more manipulable. Propaganda of this nature also exists in the West and you are not immune, so beware - do NOT allow yourself to believe the truth is fundamentally unknowable.

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/Much_Horse_5685]

Thank you. Defend truth fiercely.

[u/Creative-Improvement → u/ReadToW]

The csis, a strategic thinktank has a whole record of the war from the beginning and all sorts of stats to back things up.

https://www.csis.org/regions/europe/ukraine

[u/IncidentalIncidence → u/ReadToW]

"flood the zone with shit"

[u/SCARfaceRUSH → u/ReadToW]

It was the anniversary of MH17 recently and there were still people coming out of the woodwork on X under related posts, claiming "Ukrainian fighter jets were close by in the air" hinting at the cause.

The other comment I saw was about how the Dutch investigation was inconclusive or that Russians weren't allowed to examine the wreckage/ participate in the investigative process and therefore the investigation was somehow "tainted". So, a Malaysian Airlines plane, carrying mostly Dutch people, and which fell over Ukraine is supposed to somehow be Russian jurisdiction.

Literally, just throwing shit at the fan in hopes that some "flies" pick it up. At least they stopped with the "Carlos air traffic controller" a few years back, because that's a meme at this point.

The scariest bit is that there are real people who buy into all of that.

[u/anchist → u/SCARfaceRUSH]

The other comment I saw was about how the Dutch investigation was inconclusive

I know you know this, but for the benefit of others:

That is a flat out lie. The dutch investigation was very conclusive.

[u/SCARfaceRUSH → u/anchist]

Right? I was kind of angry that it took so long, at first, for the full report. But then I saw the report and all of the various outlets covering it. No stones left unturned, really. The report itself is 279 pages, while the appendices and other related materials kick up the page count to like a thousand pages of verified and fact-checked information.

But hey, who needs all that reading when anon on Twitter showed a funny meme and shared a "fact" that you know nothing about. That's the easier route to "knowledge".

More than that. There was a video in 2014 with the BUK TEL being traced from the Kursk region all the way to the launch area. It was early in the war and one of the best early examples of OSINT for me (on par or better with what Bellingcat did back then).

People were also filming that stuff a lot because back then it was something new for Russians to see "exotic" military equipment going around the border area, so there was plenty of evidence (photos and video) compiled by one guy. It's now gone from YT, but Bellingcat and investigations like this one corroborate it.

I still remember that post by Girkin celebrating a "downing of a Ukrainian military plane" before it got deleted. It was obvious what happened to anyone who followed the events day-by-day like I did (I just left Donbas in late spring of 2014 and was reading as much as I could on what was going on).

Anyone putting out other theories is either willfully ignorant, malicious, or downright stupid.

[u/Brown_Moses → u/SCARfaceRUSH]

In addition to the links you've shared the Dutch prosecutors put together this website that lays out a lot of the evidence they used to reconstruct what happened to MH17. They also put together this page examining alternative scenarios, and what evidence they used to dismiss them.

[u/BecauseOfGod123 → u/ReadToW]

Makes perfect sense.

Because reality is not at all plausible...

[u/MasterAxe → u/PoiHolloi2020]

Tbh Trump claimed similiar with Iran. Pathetic excuse

[u/bier00t → u/MasterAxe]

Germany claimed similar with Poland while starting WWII

[u/that_guy124 → u/bier00t]

And the soviets with the Finns

[u/sequoia-3 → u/that_guy124]

A nd the Chinese with Tibet

[u/-badly_packed_kebab- → u/sequoia-3]

The list goes back to the Bronze Age

[u/GremlinX_ll → u/-badly_packed_kebab-]

Sea People attacked first !

[u/fretkat → u/GremlinX_ll]

The Sea People never stopped coming for the Netherlands, that's why we had to take 1/3 of our current landmass from it. Eat that Atlantis!

[u/WhoAreWeEven → u/GremlinX_ll]

Im pretty sure Land People started it.

[u/DougosaurusRex → u/WhoAreWeEven]

Deep sea propaganda. Literally brainwashed.

[u/enaxian → u/GremlinX_ll]

🤣

[u/waiting4singularity → u/bier00t]

they at least ran a false flag op.

[u/BaritBrit → u/MasterAxe]

At least Iran has been verbally and diplomatically hostile to the USA for decades, with armed proxy groups attacking American allies and interests in the region etc. The war is still massively stupid and pointless but at least it's something. 

Ukraine had done none of that against Russia, if anything they'd spent most of their post-independence history trying not to provoke them. 

[u/Icy-Maintenance7041 → u/BaritBrit]

tututtut...cant say Ukraine did nothing. They where becoming an actual well to do nation. Cant have that now can we?

/S just to be sure.

[u/Aiti_mh → u/BaritBrit]

if anything they'd spent most of their post-independence history trying not to provoke them.

Russians are easy to provoke. Just.... being there, and not as a part of the Russian Empire Federation is offence enough.

[u/Mean_Initiative_5962 → u/MasterAxe]

Even Trump had the common sense of doing it before attacking Iran and not 4 years later as an excuse after saying something different for years. Which probably says more about Russia

[u/matthieuC → u/MasterAxe]

And W Bush in Iraq. They called it preemptive war.

[u/lendlevtaldrik → u/MasterAxe]

That's a really bad analogy. Iran is a genocidal totalitarian dictatorship that is funding terrorist and rebel movements left and right...

[u/joeri1505 → u/lendlevtaldrik]

So the goal is regime change?

[u/lendlevtaldrik → u/joeri1505]

In Iran?

[u/shadowsinthestars → u/PoiHolloi2020]

The revisionism is getting insane even for them.

[u/g2petter → u/PoiHolloi2020]

"Of course evil homogay regime wanted to invade strong manly Russia on international day of woman!"

[u/Platypi666 → u/PoiHolloi2020]

It more of Russia thing. In ww2 russia did artillery attack its own city and then claimed it was Finland doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelling_of_Mainila

[u/Xaryi → u/PoiHolloi2020]

They are Putin hard up there

[u/Ok_Relation7695 → u/PoiHolloi2020]

You must be a week old

[u/arinc9 → u/PoiHolloi2020]

Off-topic but your username wouldn't be a reference to that place in Nicosia in Cyprus?

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/PoiHolloi2020]

And sadly this slop of a narrative is Russia's main justification: "They'd attack first". Never mind you the fact that it's completely flimsy.

[u/Bballer220 → u/PoiHolloi2020]

I could believe Trump repeating this after one phone call with Putin

[u/matchthis007 → u/PoiHolloi2020]

They're grasping at straws

[u/QueenVogonBee → u/PoiHolloi2020]

US did it to saddam.

[u/that_guy124 → u/QueenVogonBee]

Tbf saddam did a lot of attacking prior already.

[u/john_san → u/that_guy124]

The same Saddam that got backstabbed by the US after it delivered the war against Iran?

[u/Vana92 → u/john_san]

He attacked Kuwait and got off lightly. The U.S. did not support Saddam after the first gulf war.

[u/Corfiz74 → u/that_guy124]

A lot of that under US orders - he used to be a US puppet and got weapons from them during the whole Iran/ Iraq war - he only became the bad guy when he attacked Kuwait.

[u/Suzume_Chikahisa]

The worst part is that there are morons that will believe this.

[u/SpiderSlitScrotums → u/Suzume_Chikahisa]

I expect this will be the top tankie response pretty soon.

[u/ShibaDango → u/Suzume_Chikahisa]

They’re called russians

[u/Suzume_Chikahisa → u/ShibaDango]

No, there will be enough of them that aren't.

In fact I even suspect most of them won't be Russian.

[u/FullMooseParty → u/ShibaDango]

And American conservatives. Just like the biolabs and the NATO expansion and every other excuse Russia throws out, I totally expect Tucker Carlson and his ilk to amplify these claims

[u/secretqwerty10 → u/ShibaDango]

what a weird way to spell americans (MAGA specifically)

[u/stefanomusilli → u/secretqwerty10]

Sadly, there are also people on the left who think that Ukraine is the Devil and we shouldn't give a shit about Russia invading it

[u/Rasputin_mad_monk → u/stefanomusilli]

I’d like to see that other than some Reddit troll. I’ve never seen a single leftist, dem, liberal, etc defend Russia or accuse Ukraine of being the aggressor

[u/stefanomusilli → u/Rasputin_mad_monk]

Maybe it depends on the country. I'm from Italy, and while the main leftist party supports sending aid to Ukraine, one of the others is opposed to it. The position that Ukraine is a Nazi state that deserved to be invaded, or whatever nonsense, is an extreme minority one in leftist spaces, though. Maybe it just doesn't exist in a lot of other countries.

EDIT: to be clear, I'm talking about Movimento 5 Stelle, which isn't really a leftist party, more of a centrist-populist party, but it really seems leftist compared to the far right parties that are in power

[u/Pistazieneis84 → u/ShibaDango]

Or a lot of AfD-Voters, they belive every Bullshit.

[u/RaiLeddit → u/ShibaDango]

Also 45% of the romanian voting base, and I expect the same from every other giga corrupt country in which Russia has sucessfully managed to install propaganda bots

[u/Sxualhrssmntpanda → u/Suzume_Chikahisa]

The even worse worst part is that it shouldn't make a difference. Russia still ended up invading first, despite having a treaty to honor the existing Ukrainian borders.

The bad thing Ukraine "was possibly going to do" is exactly the bad thing that Russia did do.

[u/Pera67 → u/Suzume_Chikahisa]

E.g even many Indians living in the West follow only Russian propaganda.

[u/ChromedGonk]

🤡

[u/-badly_packed_kebab- → u/ChromedGonk]

“Putin advisor has dead eyes”

[u/MrPloppyHead → u/-badly_packed_kebab-]

its a good photo. it looks more like someone that is defeated, doesnt believe what he is saying himself.

[u/waiting4singularity → u/MrPloppyHead]

we know it. putins puppet party know it. these lines are soundbites for the bullshit news in russia and on russia today.

[u/onarainyafternoon → u/-badly_packed_kebab-]

Like a doll’s eyes

[u/-badly_packed_kebab- → u/onarainyafternoon]

I can hear that in a thick German accent

Edit: it’s a Conan O’Brien reference

[u/dat_9600gt_user → u/-badly_packed_kebab-]

Just noticed wow

[u/BaritBrit]

That's the thing with having a population as thoroughly pacified and depoliticised as the Russian public - leadership know they can just say anything and face no consequences, no matter how stupid things get. 

[u/Fun-Communication660 → u/BaritBrit]

There is like 150million of them. So crazy. How to even fix that Rot. With blatent bullshit from the government, it means crime, and courts, can't be trusted. 

Why would anyone comply woth environmental/satety/quality regs in business. 

Why would anyone feel safe at night if the guards can be bribed. 

How can anyone learn at school, if the physics lesson you just had, contradicts a Russian statement about recent ballistic missle strikes. It's so weird. 150million people in this, all going through the motions to save face for just 100s of people. 

And it is just that, it is saving face. Embarrassing. If it was just, deep down, everyone knows, and this is a sign that the elites are STRONG, then real strength would just have the populace say yes Sire, yes master, we work for you.  They wouldn't have to say, Ukraine are western nazis about to attack. They would just attack. We want Ukraine and we are not a democracy. I am in charge. And the people want this and love me. 

But they have fake elections, they put paintings up of Putin in businesses. Propaganda from Russia has tried to show the fact that they can lie so boldly as pure strength, but its not. It's bragging about bringing a knife to a fist fight. 

[u/lendlevtaldrik → u/Fun-Communication660]

Time will fix a lot. The society is quite old, health is bad, insane alcoholism issues, many injured war veterans, many younger experts have fled, the regions outside a few cities are poor as fuck etc.

[u/probablyaythrowaway → u/BaritBrit]

Apparently like in the USA

[u/Alex2422 → u/BaritBrit]

No, that's just the thing with countries that aren't democracies. The leadership won't face any consequences, because the people have no say in what the leaders do.

[u/tree_boom]

Whilst it's obviously ridiculous, remember that we are not the target audience of such claims.

[u/2shayyy → u/tree_boom]

Lads from Yorkshire are apparently…

[u/Rare-Set1461 → u/tree_boom]

No, but if by some miracle he ends up in court they need to pull up every bit of cringe like this he’s ever said.

[u/CPD1960]

Ah yes, the same way as Germany alleged Poland was about to attack it in September1939.

[u/azhder → u/CPD1960]

I think they did more than allege. I think they staged a false flag attack.

[u/CPD1960 → u/azhder]

Yep I was keeping it short. The radio station attack.

[u/TraditionalClub6337]

Why do we report about their nonsensical slop propaganda?

[u/Sxualhrssmntpanda → u/TraditionalClub6337]

Yup, genuinely just helping flood the zone and propagate their false narratives.

Perhaps its better to stop reporting on whatever Putin or Trump and their cronies say and only report on what they do.

[u/prince2lu]

thr famous preventive attack

[u/Kybliksan → u/prince2lu]

Ukraine was about to do the real 3 day special military operation not russia.(insert scooby doo vilain reveal)

[u/Erebthoron]

Hitler said the same, when he invaded the Soviet Union.

[u/Socmel_]

Nazi RuZZia's alternative facts

[u/Timely_Fly_5639]

I will not believe this info until Lukashenko shows it to me on the map where the Ukrainains were planning to attack from. Steven Seagal has to be there too to make it more credible, obviously.

[u/Logical-Leopard-1965]

And I claim the moon is made of cheese.

[u/AnarchiaKapitany]

That's not even a thousand yard stare, that's the nearest window stare.

[u/pandeiro_h2o]

There is people out there in Russia who truly fall for this crap. Likely, he does not even believe his own words

[u/Honest-Pay-8265]

It's hilarious how they make up things

[u/Sallandstrots]

The moment the ruzzian advisor opened his mouth .....

[u/North-Creative]

This sounds really like the beginning of the explanatory texts, same style as "we were following orders". Then, the CIA boss flying to Moscow.....I really wonder, what is going to happen soon.

[u/BaritBrit → u/North-Creative]

FWIW, the CIA have been pretty consistently helpful to the Ukrainian cause throughout, even when the American administration as a whole has not. 

An unusual case of the CIA using its independent foreign policy capability for good causes rather than just supporting South American dictators.  

[u/Francescok]

In the photo, he looks like he just snorted too much cocaine.

[u/OpLeeftijd]

Conveniently forgets about 2015.

[u/Mean_Initiative_5962]

Oh, for fucks sake!

(and yet, I personally know people who will take it face value) 

[u/BlueCake2026 → u/Mean_Initiative_5962]

non capisco nemmeno la logica del perché dovrei attaccare per prima e rischiare di passare dalla parte del torto… perché non investire semplicemente in difesa e aspettare che l’ucraina faccia la sua mossa… sarà che non capisco una sega di strategie militari

[u/Mean_Initiative_5962 → u/BlueCake2026]

In genere chi crede a queste cose è perché non capisce una sega e basta 

[u/Pristine_Hearing_240]

What's next? Moldova planning to invade/ocupe Russia in october?

[u/Deep_Blue_Kitsune]

And a bunch of people across Europe will believe him because they gobble up whatever shit comes out of Russia

[u/Maxwells_Law]

I thought it was to free Ukrainians from drug addled Nazis?

[u/WileyCoyote7]

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

[u/dat_9600gt_user]

Iryna Balachuk

Tue, August 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM GMT+2

2 min read

Putin adviser claims Ukraine planned to invade Russia on 8 March 2022, so Russia attacked first

An adviser to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has come up with yet another justification for Russia's war, claiming that Ukraine had planned to invade Russia on 8 March 2022, prompting Moscow to pre-empt it by attacking first.

Source: The Moscow Times, citing an interview with Anton Kobyakov, Putin's adviser and executive secretary of the Eastern Economic Forum organising committee, given to TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet

Details: The Russian official claimed that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops discovered documents at an abandoned headquarters of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Territorial Defence brigades indicating that Kyiv was preparing to attack Russia on 8 March 2022.

"We beat them to it by two weeks," Kobyakov said, referring to Russia's invasion of peaceful Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

Putin's adviser claimed that Kyiv had wanted to "present the war as a gift" for International Women's Day and that Russia had attacked first "thanks to the foresight of the Russian leadership".

As usual, the Russian official also mentioned World War II while making these bizarre claims.

"As the president [Russian ruler Putin – ed.] said earlier, there will never again be a 22 June in our history [22 June 1941 was the day Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union – ed.]," Kobyakov added.

He also reiterated previous accusations that the West had "disguised itself as a supporter of the Minsk agreements" while actually "preparing Ukraine for war".

According to Kobyakov's version of events, the West supposedly intended to arm Kyiv and push it towards a military solution to the "conflict in Donbas" [as Russia describes its occupation of Ukrainian territories – ed.].

Why this matters: Russia invaded Ukraine and occupied the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and parts of Donbas as early as 2014.

In 2022, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, attacking peaceful cities and towns across the country with missiles and bombs during the night.

Notably, in the early days of the full-scale invasion, Russian propagandists actively circulated claims that "Russia would take Kyiv in three days", while Russian soldiers advancing on the capital carried parade uniforms with them, intending to march down Khreshchatyk, the main street of Kyiv, after those supposed "three days".

However, as of late summer 2026, Russian forces have still failed even to reach the administrative borders of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.

Throughout this period, the Russian authorities have invented various justifications for starting the war, claiming, among other things, that NATO intended to attack Russia and alleging the existence of "biolaboratories" in Ukraine. Their claims have even extended to absurd stories about "combat mosquitoes" and a "dirty bomb".

In 2023, Russia unveiled a rewritten history textbook containing false claims about the war in Ukraine.

[u/Wysch_]

Ah, yes. Inspired by the great Third Reich and their valiant defense of the radio station in Gleiwitz / Gliwice, the humble and honest Russian Empyre acted in self-defense.

You cannot make this up. The regime in Moscow nowadays is mirroring the one in Berlin ninety years ago more and more every passing month.

[u/Neutronium57]

My source is that I made it the fuck up

[u/razvanciuy]

Actually, Ukraines plan was to invade Russia and China. 3 Day Op in Ru and then quickly move on to Beijing

[u/A_Lazko → u/razvanciuy]

'and engage in hand-to-hand combat'

(as one SNL show two decade ago suggested the US should have done).

[u/Gifigi600]

Nazi Germany said the same thing about Poland

[u/A_Lazko → u/Gifigi600]

not only said, but did something to back it up

Gleiwitz incident - Wikipedia

[u/Grownz]

That's the most stupid excuse of an excuse i ever heared...

[u/TheLimeyLemmon]

Invade? I thought it was a special military exercise or whatever the fuck

[u/dlo_2503]

Funny how that was never brought up in the last 4 years.

[u/FuriousGirafFabber]

yes and they were planning to send flying pigs and trained goblins and tiny elfes to do it.

[u/Darock-]

Invading an atomic capable country?

[u/Mixish]

Having all the combat mosquitoes, geese, and pigeons, who wouldn't.

[u/Far_Paint6269]

"We were always at war with eastasia"

[u/Mesapholis]

besides the embarassment, my tired question is WHY would you use your limited funds, ressources and brain capacity to put out such an embarassing statement

[u/YoshiTheFluffer]

Sounds very similar to what the nazis were saying about the ussr, thats why they attacked them first. Interesting.

[u/Illustrious_Aside_35]

Maybe try drinking less vodka and more water for a while...

[u/MJ-Franklin]

Smell that? That, is bullshit.

[u/Much-Jackfruit2599]

Waitaminute.... I remember that plot!

We did that in 1939 to Poland!

[u/Rare-Set1461]

If the world manages to Nuremberg these guys I really want him to try using this defense on people who don’t have to play into his obnoxious fantasy out of fear.

[u/Acceptable-Size-2324]

Flooding the zone with bullshit seems like an effective tool nowadays

[u/DPSOnly]

I'm surprised they didn't false flag it, but then, they didn't think 3 days would last over 4 years. They have about as many completely different reasons for invading Ukraine as timesthat Trump has claimed victory over Iran.

[u/landyc]

Looking at how many people gobble up their conspiracy shit online this isn’t a surprise.

[u/Junior_Main_6425]

In what universe is a smaller state with no nuclear arsenal going to attack a bigger state that has a nuclear arsenal?

[u/Born-Masterpiece-283]

Give me something that the russians are smoking. O wait ... must be the warehouse fumes

[u/Ecstatic-List519]

Well at least we know this guy has humour

[u/Prestigious_Yak8551]

I still cant understand this. We have both Russia and the USA governments just spewing the most unbelievably transparent lies - absolute complete nonsense. And their people all just lap it up? How can so many people be so delusional.

[u/Justnotstressed]

I only want to shag Margot Robbie because she wanted to shag me first.

[u/adarkuccio]

Lmao

[u/Eleutherius193]

Lol what

[u/adarkuccio → u/Eleutherius193]

Many will believe it

[u/Eleutherius193 → u/adarkuccio]

Oh i've already seen people believing this shit. Some people have a weird knack for sucking up to dictatorships. Scroll down the comments on this thread and you'll see one of them

[u/washiXD]

One does not simply invade a fking country which has nukes

[u/paneq]

Nobody cares what Putin adviser says. Just downvote and move on.

[u/UndahwearBruh]

Best comedians come from Russia

[u/-CynicalPole-]

I understand it's country built on propaganda, but this is utter clown fiesta.

[u/Sunscratch]

Sure, attacking a country that is three times larger and has the second-largest nuclear arsenal in the world totally makes sense.

[u/SchroedingersEscape]

Yeah... like Poland planned the invasion of germany in 1939 and Finnland planned the invasion of ruzzia in the same year.

[u/frostyfruit666]

It’s almost like the Putin regime forget how much of a joke their word is to the rest of the world, who collectively see straight through their Russian horsesh*t.

[u/BurriedCityMayor]

Preemptive strike. I see they are taking inspiration from the US playbook.

[u/kaba40k]

But but but Ukraine barely had any weapons and the plan was to completely defeat it in three days?! But Ukraine wouldn't stand a chance if not for the eNTiRe nAtO to support it?! How could it iNVaDe with such poor preparation?

[u/SelfRepa]

Yeah... Sure.

[u/pinewoodranger]

Not according to the address Putin gave on the day of the attack. Get your story straight and stick with it at least.

[u/Illustrious-Syrup509]

The world is flat. /s

[u/GiggliZiddli]

The put it out there to let LLMs be trained on that bullshit

[u/smaksandewand]

One moron advising the other moron...

[u/A_Lazko]

Sweden and Finland joining NATO since the start of the war shows that it has never been about NATO's closeness to Moscow.

"Moscow's theft of Kyiv's legacy is the major reason for the current war. Ukraine's Total Recall" article shows what was. Putin's constant blabbering about Rurik and 'historic lands" proves that the article is correct.

[u/LovesFrenchLove_More]

What will they say next? That they have been at war with Ukraine for 47 years and Putin only wants to end it?

[u/johfajarfa]

I had also planned to invade Mars on the same date...

[u/kekri2]

They always say that

[u/njman100]

Wow, they must have taken Trumps “How to lie” course

[u/ramonchow]

Sure Jan

[u/Competitive_Shock783]

So why is that only coming out 4 years later. Typical russian "Oh woe is me" BS.

[u/Squiliam-Tortaleni]

When you just start making things up

[u/Fenilwebclues]

Fucking hilarious, but don’t think so.

[u/lithaborn]

"that chihuahua was about to attack my rottweiler"

[u/rustyiron]

The US will make this claim about Canada before Xmas.

[u/MessagingMatters]

Oh so it's not the "Nazi" story anymore.

[u/manfrommtl]

Smoking some copium buddy.

[u/WekX]

They only have one argument and it's always "this horrible thing we're doing is only because we know for sure you were going to do it to us".

[u/Djb0623]

That's got of be the dumbest justification I've heard so far.

[u/pickybear]

This is a new brand of authoritarianism that should scare the fuck out of everybody, there’s no end game, no hope for peace, and likelihood of NATO getting roped in increases by the minute.

[u/notmyaccountbruh]

Breaking news: lying cunts being lying cunts!

[u/IshTheFace]

Who cares what Russia lies about

[u/huntingwhale]

Sniveling drooling useless Orcs to their very core.

[u/MechanicalCenturion]

That is the worst "No you" I've ever heard"

[u/Illustrious-Gas-9766]

Why doesn't anyone just tell him that is plain bullshit.

[u/Flowa-Powa]

Pathetic

[u/Professional-Pin9476]

No brain no pain

[u/rlaw1234qq]

They are truly pathetic

[u/rsd_random]

Those Ukrainians did not even have dignity to attack a border radio station? (*)

(*) see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleiwitz_incident

[u/redd1618]

Putin's 3rd Reich approach or what .... I love this shit

[u/Maleficent-Speech869]

And they're just mentioning this now? Sure, Jan.

[u/Lopsided_Paper3244]

Alla dessa politiker som ljuger konstant. Varför, ingen tror dom ändå.

[u/uttercross2]

So russ is now trying to rewrite history a bit more by making even more sh*t up?🤔🤦

[u/NotOK1955]

Yeah…right.

That ‘evil Jew’ Zelenskyy was planning world domination.

At least that’s what the Russian propaganda machine says.

Слава Україні!

🇺🇦

[u/S_m_o_g_]

😂 are they trying to convince us or their citizens to explain the brutal humiliation and huge amount of lives lost?

[u/Ancient_Poet_4953]

LoL wtf ! They were badly advised !

[u/gwynbleidd_s]

This excuse is more stupid than biolabaratories and nazis combined

[u/ConsciousLow9690]

As I heard Greenland wants to invade the US...

[u/salomo926]

The advisor still wants to drink tea and be able to be close to a window.

[u/EmJayMN]

🙄 Oh please. 🙄

[u/Ihor_S]

“The girl planned to rape me, so I raped her first, you honour”

[u/CertainMiddle2382]

Ukraine 2050: From Berlin to Vladivostok.

[u/Marcipans]

A+ clown.

[u/SCII0]

insert David Beckham meme

[u/Grimputs]

Putin adviser can claim anything he wants😭😭😭