Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) - a Progressive Republican senator in California. His verbatim quote, "The first casualty, when war comes, is truth", was said during World War 1.
Blogger: so many newspapers and broadcasters, especially those from the left of politics, are in the habit of printing 'fake news'. They are not as bad as what may be written on Facebook, Twitter et al - but bad enough.
In the midst of huge amounts of propaganda - we must be careful as to what we believe.
However much they are the victims of this awful and unnecessary war, do remember that the Ukrainians are certainly not exempt from manipulating the truth for what will be considered 'the greater good'.
