Vladimir Putin has deployed a "Red Lipstick Army" in a bid to justify his Ukraine invasion. The Russian leader has recruited a battalion of glamorous spokeswomen to take away the hard edges’ of battlefield brutality such as last week’s bombing of a maternity hospital.
Asked about the attack - which killed three including a child - director of information at Russia ’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Maria Zakharova dismissed it as "information terrorism".
Sporting bright red lipstick she claimed Ukrainian reports about the airstrike were fake.Previously she claimed Ukraine was developing biological weapons in briefings that have become must-watch events on YouTube where she has million of followers.Zakharova has been put on the EU’s sanctions list along with Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of broadcaster RT, who conducted an interview with the Salisbury Novichok poisoners in which they claimed to be innocent tourists "visiting the city cathedral’s famous 123m spire".
Another propagandist is Maria Butina who was convicted of spying for Russia against the US in 2018 and now serves in the State Duma.
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