Putin’s lies as he wages war and conceals horror in Ukraine are PolitiFact's Lie of the Year
to the sounds of explosions. In the small eastern city of Sloviansk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, loud booms drove people from their beds in panic. Families packed belongings, swarmed ATMs and gas stations, and tried to flee the Russian invasion in cars, trains, planes and on foot.Hundreds of thousands more would be injured or killed by year’s end.
Ukraine wasn’t being led by neo-Nazis and it wasn’t committing genocide. Putin employed those lies to co-opt Russian citizens whose family members would be sent to fight a war, kill others and possibly die themselves. To orchestrate his power and land grab, Putin long denied Ukraine was even a country — falsely characterizing its history and culture, suggesting the Ukrainians were simply Russians who needed to be brought back into the fold.
Rebuilding Ukraine will cost at least $349 billion, or more than 1.5 times the size of Ukraine’s prewar economy, the World BankShortages in electricity, shelter and basic goods are subjecting civilians to extremeRussia is the world’s largest natural gas producer and is a major oil producer. The war has upended global markets and left countries grappling with high energy costs as winter arrives.
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