# Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 2)

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**Created:** [October 29, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-2/973972 "2022-10-29T17:49:40Z")\
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Yevgeny Prigozhin is ramping up his criticism of Putin. He posted a 30-minute video to his Telegram channel about how Putin has been lying to the Russian public.

> There was nothing extraordinary happening on the eve of February 24. The ministry of defence is trying to deceive the public and the president and spin the story that there was insane levels of aggression from the Ukrainian side and that they were going to attack us together with the whole Nato block.  
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> The mentally ill scumbags decided: ‘It’s OK, we’ll throw in a few thousand more Russian men as cannon fodder. They’ll die under artillery fire, but we’ll get what we want.

I have to wonder what Prigozhin’s motivation and endgame is here.

> **[Wagner chief accuses Moscow of lying to public about Ukraine](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-moscow-of-lying-to-public-about-ukraine-yevgeny-prigozhin)**
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> Yevgeny Prigozhin dismisses justification for war that Kyiv was planning 2022 attack on Donbas and Crimea

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