I'm quite surprised to see, this late in the day, the same tired and thoroughly discredited Kremlin talking points being trotted out once more by pro-Russian trolls. Is there anyone on Medium who hasn't already seen these tedious stale attempts to influence some portion of the Western audience? It's quite remarkable that after a year of Russian atrocities in Ukraine and significant defeats of the Russian military by under-equipped Ukrainian forces, Kremlin propagandists haven't come up with anything better. Perhaps those dedicated to creating new Kremlin talking-points were all sent to the front and so there's merely a stock of last-year's babble to recycle? Whatever the reason, this article is pathetic in its total inadequacy, except - to give credit where it is due - it's better-written than the usual slop that is riddled with errors of grammar and full of non-sequiturs. Evidently a year's worth of practice (e.g. endless repetition) has improved the delivery, although not the content, of this pointless generic Russian disinformation.