Disinfo: Canada is participating in provocations in the Black Sea

Summary

Poroshenko is about to stage a serious provocation as he has no other way to win the elections. Germany refused to participate in provocations in the Black Sea, while Canada agreed and sent its ships.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about provocations and Ukrainian presidential elections.

From April 5 to April 13, 2019 NATO holds multi-national naval drills in the Black Sea. Military vessels from Romania, Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, the Netherlands and Turkey participate in the exercise.

The exercise scenario is fictitious and aims at planning and conducting a Crisis Response Operation (CRO), under the mandate of a Resolution of the United Nations' Security Council (UNSC), in the context of a security environment characterized by symmetric and asymmetric threats. Read more here.

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Reported in: Issue 144
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 05/04/2019
Language/target audience: Russian
Country: Canada, Germany
Keywords: Provocation, NATO, Petro Poroshenko
Outlet: Vremya Pokhazet @ Pervyi Kanal (20:50 - 21:21)

EU won’t invest in Ukraine

Nowadays, no country, not even the European Union invests in Ukraine. Without investments, it will be very difficult to revive the Ukrainian economy.

April 08, 2019

Disproof

Recurrent disinformation narratives about the EU abandoning Ukraine and the collapsing Ukrainian economy.

The European Union supports Ukraine in ensuring a stable, prosperous and democratic future for all its citizens. Since spring 2014, the EU has stepped up its support for economic and political reforms in Ukraine.

Georgia will become a military protectorate of the United States

Georgia intends to join the NATO, after which it will become a military protectorate of the United States.

April 08, 2019

Disproof

Georgia becoming a protectorate of the US after joining NATO is one of the recurring and occasionally contradictory disinformation narratives about the same topic. Disinformation outlets state that The West is forcing Georgia to accept the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in order "to drag Georgia to NATO". See also "Georgia to give up its territorial integrity in order to join NATO" or obligation of holding gay prides and other "preconditions" for Georgia to join NATO. On the other hand, we can read "NATO troops participation in Georgian military pushes Putin to set up military bases on occupied parts of Georgia".

Georgia's movement to join NATO was intensified after the de-facto occupation of a part of its territory.

With the illegitimate war against Yugoslavia, NATO made the world a theatre of war

With the war against Yugoslavia 20 years ago, which was contrary to international law, NATO made the world a theatre of war.

April 08, 2019

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the war in former Yugoslavia.

The primary purpose of the NATO campaign was to end violence and repression and force Milosevic to withdraw his military, police and para-military forces from Kosovo (see NATO statement from 1999).