Слово "ostensible". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

  What’s your ostensible occupation?

  Mr Verloc cared but little about his ostensible business.

He was brushed and washed at the usual hour, and set off with his son to pursue his ostensible calling.

Ostensibly, the Teutons did not emerge out of the earth at this epoch.

My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker’s to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.

ostensibly, the very reason that Putin began the war to begin with.