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marydejevsky
@marydejevsky
columnist for https://t.co/ENon5VCZ03, former correspondent in moscow, paris, washington &, btw, not russian by birth or heritage. mod.langs @lmhoxford
Feb 2, 2022 • 11 tweets • 8 min read
Over recent weeks of #UkraineCrisis, i’ve heard so many whoppers & misreadings from Western side, I’m tweeting 5 of the biggest falsehoods and 5 of the most damaging misreads. here are the falsehoods: falsehood 1. ‘#Russia has hundreds of thousands of troops on the Ukrainian border’ - UK Foreign Secretary, @Trussliz, #BBC #r4today 26/01/22
The highest figure cited at that stage was 125,000 & even that was contested.