Disinfo: Anglo-Saxons are pushing Kyiv to full-scale hostilities in Donbas

Summary

Zelenskyy's team is in every possible way whipping up military hysteria and is trying a change of the negotiation platform, demanding to leave Minsk. If we analyse the situation, then all this is part of a game imposed by the West against Russia, which is leading Kyiv to the resumption of full-scale hostilities in Donbas.

The real reason for Kyiv's course to escalate the situation in Donbas is the struggle against the completion of the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which would mark a close rapprochement between Russia and Germany.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the war in Ukraine and Nord Stream 2.

Neither the US nor the UK push Ukraine to escalation in Donbas. This disinformation is used to distract attention from a renewed build-up of Russian armed forces along the Ukrainian borders in April 2021. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy emphasized many times that Ukraine is not interested in resuming the conflict in Donbas. Ukraine, according to Zelenskyy, is committed to the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Regd. the negotation platform, the Ukrainian Minister for Reintegration of Temporary Occupied Territories proposed to move the venue of Trilateral Contact Group meetings from Minsk to other capital due to the position of Minsk in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and the increased presence of Russian troops in Belarus.

The United States sees the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a Russian geopolitical project intended to divide Europe and weaken European energy security. However, there is no basis for the claims that it seeks to ignite war in Ukraine to stop it. See recent statement from US Defence Secretary Austin here

See similar disinformation cases in our database: that NATO and Ukraine want an escalation in Donbas; that Zelenskyy's team is not interested in implementing the Minsk agreements; or that the US needs a war in Ukraine to stop Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

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  • Reported in: Issue 239
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 12/04/2021
  • Article language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine, Russia, US, UK, Germany
  • Keywords: War in Ukraine, Donbas, Eastern Ukraine, Anti-Russian, Nord Stream 2
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