Russia initially claimed that the story was false because the city in question — which has a zoo — did not, in fact, have a zoo.

Russian media stole the video made by the Ukrainian forces. They tried to appropriate the hard work of the Ukrainian warriors rescuing the civilian population, which suffered as a result of the Russian terrorist attack on the Kakhovka Hydropower Plant.

Pence gave the misleading impression that the Obama administration gave Ukraine no “military resources at all” after Russia’s 2014 invasion. The U.S. provided nonlethal military aid, including training, vehicles and radar equipment. The former vice president misleadingly accused the Biden administration of “giving Russia back a Nord Stream 2 deal,” referring to a Russian natural gas pipeline to Germany that remains inoperable and under U.S. sanctions.