russian propaganda is circulating a video featuring a supposed \u201cformer adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense,\u201d Joseph Stickney, claiming that Ukrainian strikes on russian oil refineries and marketplace warehouses \u201cdo not improve Ukraine\u2019s position\u201d but instead \u201cconsolidate russian society\u201d and \u201ctrigger massive retaliatory attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f Through such fabrications, russia seeks to discredit the successful strikes carried out by Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces against the enemy\u2019s economic and logistical infrastructure. Lacking credible arguments, the kremlin resorts to inventing \u201cWestern experts\u201d in an attempt to give its familiar intimidation narratives the appearance of an \u201cindependent American assessment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The systematic destruction of russia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
russian propaganda is circulating a video featuring a supposed \u201cformer adviser to the U.S. Department of Defense,\u201d Joseph Stickney, claiming that Ukrainian strikes on russian oil refineries and marketplace warehouses \u201cdo not improve Ukraine\u2019s position\u201d but instead \u201cconsolidate russian society\u201d and \u201ctrigger massive retaliatory attacks.\u201d The video and its claims are fake. There is no…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}