Thank you for calling it out.
If there's one thing that has really fucked society repeatedly, it's people coopting brazen and obvious lies under the guise of it being 'just an opinion'.
Facts are facts. They aren't a matter for subjectivity. Of course, nuance and interpretation exists, but that can't change what is objectively true. To think lies can be an opinion is either intellectually dishonest or straight up delusion, there is literally no other possibility.
Somewhat ironically, creating alternative realities based on misinformation is exactly how Putin justified this war in the first place. It's an absolute scourge of our world right now.