You can just watch the man say it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv6KORLhSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv6KORLhSg But be aware that this is no

You can just watch the man say it himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv6KORLhSg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIv6KORLhSg But be aware that this is not how Russian messaging works. Their SOP is to claim everything at the same time, even if incongruous or contradictory. The desired effect is that you either give up at all or even better, one of their crackpot stories resonates with you and you go on to spread it (like the sibling comment linking some Azov nonsense). Even this one minute statement is just one big lie of course - the "Donetsk/Luhansk People's Republics" always had Russian soldiers fighting for them, they are not even hiding it in obituaries anymore.