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An adviser to Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has come up with yet another justification for Russia’s war, claiming that Ukraine had planned to invade Russia on 8 March 2022, prompting Moscow to pre-empt it by attacking first.
Source: The Moscow Times, citing an interview with Anton Kobyakov, Putin’s adviser and executive secretary of the Eastern Economic Forum organising committee, given to TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news outlet
Details: The Russian official claimed that at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops discovered documents at an abandoned headquarters of one of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Territorial Defence brigades indicating that Kyiv was preparing to attack Russia on 8 March 2022.
“We beat them to it by two weeks,” Kobyakov said, referring to Russia’s invasion of peaceful Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
Putin’s adviser claimed that Kyiv had wanted to “present the war as a gift” for International Women’s Day and that Russia had attacked first “thanks to the foresight of the Russian leadership”.