Few propagandists or Kremlin officials have referred to the Ukraine conflict as anything but a 'special military operation' since it began 11 months ago.
"With Ukraine, we didn't just get up, [only because] we didn't like [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, or because he stopped playing in the KVN [Russian and formerly Soviet humor TV show and an international competition] and stopped maintaining his theater, Kvartal 95 [publicly owned television entertainment production company, founded by Zelensky], and we went to war against Ukraine," Lavrov said.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan are seen. Simonyan recently admitted that referring to the invasion of Ukraine as a"special military operation" or a"war" does not change anything about it.Later in the month, Putin himself broke the rule while addressing reporters, claiming that"Our aim is not to fan the flames of this military conflict, on the contrary, it is to end this war," the Russian leader said.
Last March, only a few weeks after the invasion began, the Kremlin passed new anti-dissent laws barring Russian citizens from referring to the conflict in Ukraine as a war, under which some have since been convicted.
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