for vladimir, this was a day for remembering a friend and condemning the war. this is not russia s war, not a war by the russian people or ukrainian people, this is yet another military adventure, military crime by an unelected, unaccountable, authoritarian and frankly increasingly deranged dictator in the kremlin by the name of putin. you won t hear anything like that on russian state tv. it s been claiming russian troops are liberating ukraine and moscow is using force in the interests of peace. in russia, television remains the key tool for shaping public opinion, so if you control tv, as the kremlin does, you control the messaging, but not 100% because today, many russians do get their news and information online and there, they see
this is yet another military adventure, military crime by an unelected, unaccountable, authoritarian and frankly increasingly deranged dictator in the kremlin by the name of putin. if you use the words attack, invasion or war. we can see only special operation. independent media outlets in russia have been ordered by the authorities not to call this a war. what is the kremlin trying to do to the truth now in russia? what they always do. they always turn truth into lies. they lie, theyjust lie. censorship at home, war abroad. in the past hour president zelenskyy has been speaking at a news conference
for vladimir, this was a date for remembering a friend and condemning the war. this is not russia s war, not a war by the russian people or ukrainian people, this is yet another military adventure, military crime by an unelected, unaccountable, authoritarian and frankly increasingly deranged dictator in the kremlin by the name of putin. if you use the words attack, invasion or war. we can say only special operation. independent media outlets in russia have been ordered by the authorities not to call this a war. what is the kremlin trying to do to the truth now in russia? what they always do.
of defence and the chief therefore i m ordering the ministry of fefence and the chief of the general staff to put the strategic nuclear forces on special alert. would putin really use them? he practised a week ago, overseeing exercises of russian strategic deterrence forces. typically unsubtle hints to america and nato not to stand in his way over ukraine. today s special alert, more presidential muscle flexing. across from the kremlin, muscovites gathered on the bridge muscovites gathered on a bridge to remember boris nemtsov, the putin critic gunned down right here seven years ago. for vladimir, this was a date for remembering a friend and condemning the war. this is not russia s war, not a war by the russian people or ukrainian people, this is yet another military adventure, military crime by an unelected, unaccountable, authoritarian and frankly
russia and belarus. despite missiles being fired at our territory every day, despite that, against civilians and peaceful towns, towns around kyiv, and they are preparing to bombard odesa. the russians always visited odesa, they always felt only warmth in odesa, only genuine warmth and now they are going to fire bombs against odesa, artillery, rockets and missiles against odesa. that will be a military crime, a historical crime. ukrainians, we are fighting for our freedom, our state. we will prevail. we understand already how we will be restoring our country. we are setting up special funds for the recovery of ukraine, there are four of them already, a fund for the restoration of destroyed property and