Russia Uses Ukraine Ex-UN Weapons Inspector's Misinformation for Propaganda Russia’s RIA Novosti state news agency quoted former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter’s comments: “Russia is winning. This war is finished.”
From April to November 2022, however, Ukrainian forces pushed Russian troops out of northern Ukraine, launching counteroffensives in the east and south, recovering
of occupied territory or about 63% of Russia’s latest gains and 46% of its total occupied territory, according to the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War.of the territory that Russian forces captured after the start of the full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, or about 46 percent of all Russian-occupied territory in Ukraine.Russian use of Ritter’s misinformation
Ritter made more or less the same claim a year ago, during an interview with the United National AntiWar Coalition on April 6, 2022, in which"Russia has won this war. I believe they are in the process of completing one of the most stunning military victories in modern history.”Even at the time of Ritter’s earlier comments in 2022, they were demonstrably false, as Russian troops had been retreating from the northern Ukrainian regions of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy since late-March of that year.
“[B]y April 8, Russian authorities had withdrawn from the northern fronts, saying they would refocus on winning territory in the east. Within a matter of days, Russia gave up about 40% of the gains it had made since the start of the invasion.”footage of Ukrainian civilians found murdered in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha a "provocation" that had been "staged" by Kyiv.
“These people were killed, not by Russians but by Ukrainians. … These people were killed on April 1 by the Ukrainian National Police.”
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