@ztx It was pretty much summarized, of course, hence the quotation marks. Though you can see in the media Russian officials consistently talking about 'Special Operations' and trying to avoid talking about 'invasion' at all.

Not sure they're still keeping up that act as I'm not really watching those videos (most aren't subtitled or not adequately, I'm at a disadvantage with videos). They ought to realize that almost nobody's buying it outside of their Russian news bubble.

But I've read articles (Like this one here in Dutch: https://nos.nl/artikel/2420942-ik-weet-niet-of-ik-mijn-russische-vader-ooit-weer-wil-zien ) about Ukrainians who have family in Russia. Those Ukrainians had to evacuate to another country because their city got bombed, and their family members in Russia refused to believe that it's because of Russian soldiers. Even when sent pictures of the whole thing, they're claiming that it is Ukrainian troops scaring the population. Not sure where the logic is in that, but it shows to me that Russian propaganda's pretty effective there.

Of course, you could claim that all what I've read is propaganda too, and that is also a possibility. Though the rest of the world usually have more independent reporters around than Russia which has introduced very strict laws that can imprison you for 'misinformation' which is very open to interpretation. Very convenient for the ones in charge over there, I'll grant you that.