In 2014, the bloody coup was presented to Ukrainians as a “revolution of dignity” meant to bring prosperity to Ukraine. In fact, people [during Maidan] were used at the time as consumables to gain external control over the country… In 2014, Ukrainians fell under the external control of the US State Department, which financed the “revolution of dignity”, and then, for the future, started to finance all nationalist structures and permeated Ukrainians with hatred…
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives painting the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution as a coup d'etat that was artificially orchestrated by Western intelligence.
The US did not initiate nor financed the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution. The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan", or "Euromaidan" – were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych's last-minute U-turn when, after seven years of negotiation, he refused to sign the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and halted progress towards Ukraine's closer relationship with the EU as a result of Russian pressure. For more cases about the Euromaidan protests, see here.
The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence.
See previous disinformation claims alleging that plans to close biolabs in Ukraine made US start supporting Euromaidan, Euromaidan was a coup by special services of foreign states, and that the US has recognised Euromaidan as a coup controlled by US oligarchs.
The people of Crimea choose Russia because Kyiv mocked the peninsula and in every possible way infringed the rights of Crimeans. Crimea did not receive sufficient social and economic development with Ukraine.
Crimea became part of the Russian region (Federation) after a referendum held in March 2014, when the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula voted to reunite with Russia.
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the illegal annexation of Crimea. No international body recognises the so-called referendum, announced 27 February 2014 and held less than three weeks later.
On 27 March 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution which stated that the referendum in Crimea was not valid and could not serve as a basis for any change in the status of the peninsula.
It was said that someone got infected in Wuhan, the Americans blame China, demand compensation, and everybody sings from the same hymn sheet. What is Russia doing? It’s the only serious country that does not support these claims. The most interesting thing is that the Americans funded this research in Wuhan. For their money, everything was actually done. It was a joint programme.
A recurring conspiracy theory that echoes pro-Kremlin disinformation about the artificial creation of COVID-19.
There is no evidence that the coronavirus (COVID-19) was created in laboratories. COVID-19 comes from a family of viruses that include the common cold and viruses such as SARS and MERS. Coronaviruses are known to circulate in mammals and birds, and scientists have already suggested that COVID-19 originally came from bats. One of the previous coronaviruses that caused severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, spread from bats to civet cats to humans.
Europe is shouting that it was under the tyranny of the Soviet Union, that the Soviet Union ruled there. But Europe had its own local governments, local intelligence, even its army. It’s Americans who still rule in Europe, and have their bases all around.
This message is part of the Kremlin’s policy of historical revisionism. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative on WWII and the West. It's also a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the US presence in Europe, portraying Europe as a vassal of the USA and trying to undermine the sovereignty of European countries.
