“an earlier claim about an invasion by Vladimir Putin’s troops amounted to a crude propaganda move by the pro-Western Kiev government”
That’s the thing — they’ve still got this old Soviet mentality that their citizens are obligated to believe whatever clumsy propaganda the government spews. How is that in any way “pro-western”? It isn’t even pro-modern. Sounds like EU globalist fascism to me.
But the real hoot is watching and listening to Russians whine about propaganda.