“Liberate” is an interesting choice of term, given the communities in question aren’t in Russia’s sovereignty.

To be clear, I don’t personally have proof of whether the citizenry is broadly thrilled about or terrified of the soldiers in their streets.

I just believe it’s journalistic best practice for any case where an army taking part in a war of territorial expansion claims territory to use a neutral term like “control” rather than a biased one like “liberate” or “oppress”.

They do quantify them. There’s been counters for that. The people speak out against them at town halls. It still goes up.

Is this the ceasefire that both countries said was happening at different times?

Sorta like saying truce right before getting punched, eh?

I’m gonna grain-of-salt just about anything reported by Cucker Tarlson