Western media handed Russia a minor PR victory by publishing reports which cited “U.S. intelligence sources” as saying Ukraine would be invaded on February 16th, …
Western media handed Russia a minor PR victory by publishing reports which cited “U.S. intelligence sources” as saying Ukraine would be invaded on February 16th, only for the day to pass without incident. State-owned Russian News Agency TASS reports Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as sarcastically requesting that “Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Sun media outlets… publish the schedule for our upcoming invasions for the year” to help her “plan my vacation” on Telegram, in response to multiple media reports suggesting that Ukraine was to be invaded on February 16th Previously, Zakharova had issued a less playful statement declaring that “[this] will go down in history as the day of the failure of Western war propaganda. Humiliated and destroyed without firing a shot.” British news outlets came under particular criticism on a Russian version of 60 Minutes, with hostess Olga Skabeeva mocking the “day of no invasion of Ukraine” and showing decidedly uneventful footage from a livestream which had been set up by Reuters in the Ukrainian capital.
