> in which it was announced that Ukrainian forces "armed to their teeth by NATO and with support and approval of Washington" invaded the Kursk, Belgorod, and Bryansk regions, and as a result, "martial law" was being imposed in those areas.<p>Note that substantial portions of this are standard Kremlin propaganda, not satire. Namely the story that innocent Russia has been purposely encircled by NATO the inevitable predator, etc.<p>That said, you can tell it is nonsense by how casually Putin chose to move Russian troops and equipment <i>away</i> from spooky-scary NATO borders in order to try gobbling up Ukraine.