Russian Troops Invading Ukraine Claim They’re Actually on Vacation

Nearly a thousand Russian soldiers crossed the border into Eastern Ukraine, but according to them, they’re not actually there on behalf of the Russian government — they’re simply on vacation, and decided that the best way to spend their free time was by invading another country and encouraging it to break off from Ukraine.

“Among us are fighting serving [Russian] soldiers, who would rather take their vacation not on a beach but with us, among brothers, who are fighting for their freedom,” Alexander Zakharchenko, the pro-separatist leader in control of Eastern Ukraine, told a Russian state TV station.

The vacationing Russian troops have also brought along tanks, military vehicles, and air defense systems, like people on vacation often do. However, the Russian Ambassador to the EU claimed that his country wasn’t actually formally invading Ukraine, even when Ukraine produced ten Russian soldiers it had captured in Ukraine. His response: they probably wandered over there by accident.

[h/t The Washington Post]
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