Russian independent exile; contradiction framing between Putin's prior "information campaign" claim and the admission

Leads with the direct contradiction in Putin's prior statements: he had previously described Ukrainian media reports about refinery strikes as 'an information campaign,' while now simultaneously admitting the shortage they caused is real. Zona frames this as a rare public policy reversal extracted by the scale of the crisis.

“Путин признал дефицит, который раньше называл «информационной кампанией».”