1. It was obvious from the start that there was no invasion. The Russian military had been in the Crimea for decades (one could say centuries) due to the Russian Black Sea Fleet naval base at Sevastopol. There was no invasive border crossing, despite efforts by ABC and others to pretend there was by using photos of Russian tanks from Russia's 2008 war with Georgia (started by Georgia with implicit U.S. support).
2. There was also no "grabbing" of Crimea by Russia, given that the 2014 referendum in primarily ethnic Russian Crimea to rejoin Russia passed by 96%. The U.S. claimed it was a flawed referendum because of Russian "occupation," ignoring both the fact that the Russians had always been welcome there, and a previous 1991 referendum had overwhelmingly (93%) but temporarily reversed a controversial 1954 Ukraine/Russia agreement to hand Crimea over Ukraine.

Yet any attempt to point out the falsehood of these two pieces of Fake News is met with cries of "Russian propaganda" and accusations of "Putin Stooge."

This is all the more egregious in its failure to take account the well-known fact that the U.S. State Department and the notorious government-funded National Endowment for Democracy were heavily involved in organizing, training and paying for the 2014 right-wing overthrow of the elected (if corrupt) Ukrainian government. The result of that coup was the release of overt neo-Nazi death troops on eastern Ukrainian towns -- the east being more ethnically Russian or Russian-oriented. Over 9,000 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been displaced or escaped (mostly to Russia) in the ensuing carnage. The Crimeans knew very well what was going to happen, so it isn't in any way surprising that they voted overwhelmingly for annexation with a protective Russia.