Disinfo: Biden is pushing Ukraine into an open conflict with Russia

Summary

With the coming to power of President Joe Biden, Ukraine's course on the Donbas issue has become many times more aggressive. And this is no coincidence. The US is openly provoking Kyiv to aggravate the situation, but it is unlikely to intervene in the event of an open confrontation between Ukraine and Russia. Such developments were to be expected even when it became clear that the Democratic candidate was winning the presidential elections in the US. Moreover, the newly elected American president was initially, back in the days of the Ukrainian Maidan, one of the most active initiators of the armed coup in Kyiv, albeit behind the scenes. We can say with high confidence that a provocative project to destabilise the situation, developed in the offices of either the CIA or NATO headquarters, is starting to be implemented on the contact line in Donbas.

Disproof

This article has several recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives: the claim that the Euromaidan was a coup, that Ukraine is under external control by the US, a disinformation narrative about Joe Biden and claiming that the United States is interested in a proxy war against Russia on Ukrainian territory.

There was no coup d'état in Ukraine. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former president Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. No evidence that Biden was the chief curator of the 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kyiv.

In fact, the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not receive orders from any foreign country and their activities in Donbas only depend on the current situation in the war zone. Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world.

There is no evidence given to support the claims that Joe Biden or CIA or NATO are involved in the Donbas conflict. NATO experts, who are stationed in Ukraine, for instance, help the country's Armed Forces with the military reform.

See the similar case claiming that Biden is behind the Ukrainian nationalist regime, that Biden uses Zelenskyy as an intermediary against Russia, that Ukraine ready for attack in Donbas at Washington’s nod or that Biden's America is indecently pushing Ukraine into the war.

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  • Reported in: Issue 240
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 06/04/2021
  • Article language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: US, Ukraine, Russia
  • Keywords: Joe Biden, Donbas, Military, CIA, Warmongering, Euromaidan
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