"Taking over another sovereign nation was just a ‘special military operation’! It wasn’t a ‘war’ until they started resisting and defending their homes and got assistance from the West! I mean, we all see how that works, right?! They should’ve just laid down and taken the beating, it would’ve avoided this whole thing!

…also it would be great if people would stop making fun of our military, it’s making recruitment hard. There’s only so many people we can imprison and conscript through Wagner."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh_mU4cpyFQ

• https://www.reuters.com/world/putin-uses-brics-summit-justify-russias-war-ukraine-2023-08-23/
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/8/23/russia-ukraine-live-kyiv-says-russian-drone-hit-odesa-grain-infrastructure (have to scroll down a bit)