Paul Roderick Gregory: Smoking guns shatter Russian lies about no troops in Ukraine
With the covert invasion of southeast Ukraine by its special forces, the Russian propaganda machine is struggling to keep the lie of Russian non-involvement afloat. After all, the Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, himself solemnly assured his Ukrainian counterpart: “There is no basis for such assertions” that Moscow had any role in recent unrest. Per Lavrov: As in Crimea, these are “self-defense” patriots, battling the neo-Nazi and nationalist extremists of Kyiv. Anyone who says there are Russian troops in Ukraine is a liar. Well, it is Lavrov, his boss Putin, and Russian disinformation specialists who are the liars.