Russia has come up with a rather novel excuse as to why it’s failing in its bid to defeat Ukraine.
Since despotic President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops onto Ukrainian land in February, he has lost more than 37,000 troops and failed in his attempts to win in just “72 hours”.
And now the Kremlin is looking for random reasons to blame for it.
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The last in a long line of reasons is that Ukraine has “superhuman killing machines” created during “secret experiments” in American-run bio-labs.
According to Russian mouthpiece news organisation Kommersant, the claims are being made by two Russia law experts.
Russia has lost around 37,000 troops since the invasion began
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Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, and Irina Yarovaya, deputy chair of the State Duma, said that they had found evidence during an investigation started earlier this year.
They said: “We see the cruelty and barbarity with which the military personnel of Ukraine behave, the crimes that they commit against the civilian population, those monstrous crimes that they commit against prisoners of war, confirm that this system for the control and creation of a cruel murder machine was implemented under the management of the United States.
“And those performance enhancing drugs that they are still given in order to completely neutralize the last traces of human consciousness and turn them into the most cruel and deadly monsters also confirm this.”
Konstantin Kosachev, the deputy speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, made the strange claim
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They also claimed that Ukraine was using Hepatitis A to do this, and added that they found evidence of this in the blood of Ukrainian soldiers captured by Russians.
“It is quite possible that this was about testing these drugs on military personnel,” Yarovaya said.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in February, has stalled in recent months despite its continued bombardment of civilian areas.
As of yesterday, Russia has so far lost around 36,200 troops – averaging around 300 troop losses every day at the hands of the Ukrainian resistance.
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