He said this during a working meeting with the Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The head of the region noted that there is a "massive information war" from the Ukrainian side in relation to the Belgorod region.
“Our people are not so easy to fool, taking into account the nature,” Putin said.
In November, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that almost 160,000 Internet resources, including those that spread fake news about the Russian special military operation, had been identified and blocked in the Central Federal District.