“Our goal is not to spin the flywheel of military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war,” he told journalists on Dec. 22.
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“We have been and will continue to strive for this.”
Since March, Russia has been initiating criminal cases against those people who refer to the invasion of Ukraine as a “war.”
Nikita Yuferev, a municipal legislator from St. Petersburg, wrote on Twitter that the prosecutor’s office and Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs should open a criminal case against Putin over “fake information about the army.”
“Several thousand people have already been convicted for such words about the war,” he tweeted.
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“I’ve sent a motion to the authorities to prosecute Putin for spreading fake information about the army.”
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