Note the date: 15 Feb 2022 -- a week before Putler's invasion. Of course they'd been ramping it up in preparation, to the extent that even the AP reported on the agencies' findings.
It's a bit like RT: Before the invasion, lots of naïve Westerners used to buy that drivel too; now only the most deluded conspiracy kooks do. It's just that secondary site metastases like this ZH aren't as obviously descredited, so all the "keeping an open mind to the extent my brains have fallen out" conspiracy-flirters, semi-kooks, and other morons keep sucking the propaganda teat.