What context am I missing here? How am I not giving a good faith interpretation when I'm listening to his entire speech on the invasion of Ukraine? I'm not goin

What context am I missing here? How am I not giving a good faith interpretation when I'm listening to his entire speech on the invasion of Ukraine? I'm not going to sit here nodding my head in agreement with whatever he says. At the 45 minute mark, he repeatedly, clearly, says that Russia invading all of Ukraine, or occupying it, is preposterous and that there's "no evidence" of it. Neither Mearsheimer or Fridman at all refute the very obvious contradiction that Russian troops were surrounding and shelling the capital of Ukraine immediately during the invasion.