Man Gaslights Europe Into World War 3

Kiev - Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this morning that NATO is lowkey acting kind of crazy, claiming he’s just hanging out in separatist regions with 200,000 of his closest armed friends and it’s pretty weird anyone would have a problem with that.

“Haha what? You mean you guys don’t recognize Eastern Ukraine as being part of Russia? Yo that’s wild you guys think that because literally everyone else agrees with me, but whatever no worries,” stated Putin.

Putin also noted that Ukraine and their allies were being way too sensitive, and that no normal countries would react like this to an invasion, claiming Crimea was so much chiller about everything when they got invaded.

During on-going peace negotiations with France, Putin suggested maybe French President Emmanuel Macron could benefit from therapy or something, and that he would really support the president if he did.

At press time, Putin said that if you really think about it this whole situation is actually NATO’s fault because they should have known how he was going to react to their alliance with Ukraine.

UPDATE: Following new sanctions from the UK on five Russian banks, Vladimir Putin has since apologized to PM Boris Johnson, stating “I’m sorry that you were upset with my illegal occupation.”