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Russia poisoned the Ukrainian opposition in 2005 for not being pro Russian enough, an act of war in itself.
The point is Russia thinks lying is a manly trait, Russians even have a word for it called vryanyo which means when you lie to someone but they don't call you out on it so you feel like you proved dominance.
It is the verbal version of shoulder bumping another guy in a bar.
Civilized countries think this is idiotic shit and don't end up with a word for it because it isn't something people think is good.
This is also why you have vid rel happen and then the Kremlin saying contradictory nonsense all the time, like saying 'the USSR never formally was dissolved so Ukraine is an internal Russian matter'