[mc32]

If the accused admit to something it's more believable than the alternative (that they were forced into false admission).

So in this case if the Ukrainian government admit to making things up then I would think it's believable that they made something up for the sake of propaganda. We can also check more independent sources --read Japanese news, or Indian news sources, etc.

[ketralnis]

We don't know that the accused admitted to anything. We know that the Washington Post says that they did. The world becomes very solipsistic when you lose trust in reporting.

[l33t2328]

Well…yeah. If you don’t trust anything you can’t know very much.