Why Vladimir Putin is losing the Ukraine propaganda war

President’s ‘media control machine’ scrambling to sell the conflict to Russian people

Police detain a woman at an anti-war demonstration in Moscow
Police detain woman at an anti-war demonstration in Moscow
(Image credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images)

The final text messages from a Russian soldier killed in Ukraine expose the stark difference between the reality on the ground and how the conflict was sold to troops in Moscow, the besieged nation’s UN ambassador has claimed.

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