Your point is perfectly valid, and shouldn't have been downvoted. But as a footnote, the sibling comment here happens to also be correct: like any truly effect

Your point is perfectly valid, and shouldn't have been downvoted. But as a footnote, the sibling comment here happens to also be correct: like any truly effective propaganda outlet, RT leverages a mix of largely legitimate / mundane news along with a certain proportion of fake or distorted news. But for the sake of simplicity it's best to stop citing RT or feeding it attention of any other form, altogether.