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.