Defense experts on Russian state-sponsored outlets tend to repeat several disinformation narratives. They include assertions that Russian weapons are to promote peace while Western weapons provoke conflict, that an aggressive West is using “hybrid warfare” to foster instability near Russia, and that “Eastern European NATO allies are US puppets”.
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