“The Russian government and President Putin personally denied several times that these were Russian troops and described them as spontaneous ‘self-defence units

“The Russian government and President Putin personally denied several times that these were Russian troops and described them as spontaneous ‘self-defence units’ who acquired a uniform similar to the Russian [one] in local stores,” writes Harari. “When they made such rather ridiculous statements, Putin and his associates knew perfectly well that they were lying.” In the russian version becomes: “According to estimates of the Washington Post newspaper, President Trump made more than 6,000 false public statements in the time after his inauguration.” As an excuse he said: "To enable my ideas and messages to easily reach people from various countries". This IMO is a pretty cheap excuse to cover the underlying fact that he changes that just to sell more books, because honestly i can't believe that an historian worth of his/her name would agreed on doing that on purpose. I honestly love his books, but i expect a bit more integrity.