Russian opposition politician accuses Putin of breaking his own law
Opposition councillor Nikita Yuferev asked prosecutors to investigate Vladimir Putin for using the word “war”.
Putin said yesterday at a news conference: “Our goal is not to spin this flywheel of a military conflict, but, on the contrary, to end this war. This is what we are striving for.”
For the last 10 months the official Russian term for the invasion of Ukraine has been “special military operation”.
In an open letter, Yuferev asked the prosecutor general and interior minister to “hold [Putin] responsible under the law for spreading fake news about the actions of the Russian army”.
He said: “It’s important for me to do this to draw attention to the contradiction and the injustice of these laws that [Putin] adopts and signs but which he himself doesn’t observe.
“I think the more we talk about this, the more people will doubt his honesty, his infallibility, and the less support he will have.”