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nothing extraordinary happened. but the ministry of defense was trying to deceive the public, to deceive the president, and say that there was insane aggression on the part of ukraine and that they were going to attack us together with nato. the war was not needed in order to return russian citizens to our bosom and not needed in order to demilitarize and denazify ukraine. >> reporter: on the face of it, the remarks are aimed at this man, sergey shi shoigu, russia' defense minister. but it's president putin who's most closely associated with his special military operation in ukraine. any criticism of it seems leikea jab at his decision. dangerous potentially in a country where dissent is rarely tolerated. >> well, alex, events moving very quickly inside russia. it's difficult to get a handle