In comments that reflect conservatives’ tendency toward hyperbole and deceit, Russian officials said continuing Ukrainian drone attacks are equivalent to al Qaeda’s unprovoked 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York that killed close to 3,000 people, USA Today reports.
After a new wave of attacks early Wednesday morning, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the latest attack, in which no one was injured, was aimed at location “that have nothing to do with the military,” without noting the Kremlin’s increasing intense attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown, which has little military importance. “The 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers caused an enormous number of casualties, but the methods were the same,” she said. “We are seeing the same picture now, as if it is repeating itself.”