ru-propaganda invents a “former Pentagon adviser” to condemn Ukraine’s strikes
russian propaganda is circulating a video featuring a supposed “former adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense,” Joseph Stickney, claiming that Ukrainian strikes on russian oil refineries and marketplace warehouses “do not improve Ukraine’s position” but instead “consolidate russian society” and “trigger massive retaliatory attacks.”
The video and its claims are fake. There is no publicly available information about any U.S. Department of Defense official, expert, or adviser named Joseph Stickney. The individual is entirely fictitious, and no such statements have been made by representatives of the U.S. defense establishment.
▫️ Through such fabrications, russia seeks to discredit the successful strikes carried out by Ukraine’s Defense Forces against the enemy’s economic and logistical infrastructure. Lacking credible arguments, the kremlin resorts to inventing “Western experts” in an attempt to give its familiar intimidation narratives the appearance of an “independent American assessment.”
The systematic destruction of russia’s oil refining and logistics infrastructure is inflicting significant damage on the aggressor and depriving the occupying army of the resources it needs to continue the war.
