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Disinfo: Foreign military instructors are preparing five battalions of Ukrainians who are almost nationalists, the aim is to attack Donbas

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Today, five battalions of Ukrainian troops – almost nationalists – are trained by foreign specialists. And they are ready today. Waiting only for a signal. They are ready for very serious, decisive actions in Donbas. When the cleaning starts, do not force Russia to answer.

Disproof

IMPROVE  No evidence given. Repeating a pro-Kremlin disinformation about Ukrainian soldiers as nationalist force ready to "clean" Donbas.

Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine is the name for the training mission being conducted by U.S. Forces in support of Ukraine. The U.S. will continue training and advising Ukrainian security forces until 2020, and JMTG-U will oversee defensive and security training for up to five battalions of Ministry of Defense forces per year.

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  • Reported in: Issue 96
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 23/01/2018
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Keywords: War preparation, War in Ukraine, Donbas
  • Outlet: 60 minut @Rossia-1, 41:27
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The exclusion of Russian athletes in the Olympics is a form of war

The exclusion of Russian athletes in the Olympics is called a war by the ordinary people. On different fronts. Here, there is a sports front. There are political and geopolitical ones also. There is a diplomatic front and so on. There is an information one. This is a war.

January 29, 2018
Disproof

The International Olympic Committee banned Russia from the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 due to the systemic manipulation of anti-doping rules in Russia during the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi three years ago - not due to imaginary anti-Russian war. Individual athletes from Russia may still compete under the Olympic Flag. Using militaristic terms while talking about the Olympic ban is a frequent technique of pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign to distract the audience from the actual cause for the ban.

Ukraine has legalized a genocide against the citizens of Ukraine

In fact today, you [Ukraine] legalized a genocide against the people, who, as you regard them, are citizens of Ukraine. You are trying to destroy the country today, while giving it a legitimate status.

January 29, 2018
Disproof

No evidence given for a threat of genocide in Ukraine. The word genocide is frequently used in pro-Kremlin disinformation https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=genocide&disinfo_issue=&disinfo_language%5B%5D=rus&date=,but it seldom corresponds to the actual definition of a genocide http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.html

Disinformation refers to a bill on "reintegration of Donbas" which was adopted by the Ukrainian parliament 18 January 2018. For background see: www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-parliament-passes-donbas-reintegration-bill/28982677.html,

In Kiev there is not a single Russian-language school

In Kiev there is not a single Russian-language school.

January 29, 2018
Disproof

It is a recurring theme in pro-Kremlin disinformation that Russian-speakers are being marginalised in Ukraine. According to the Kyiv City State Administration, in response to the request of StopFake, in the academic year 2017-2018 in Kiev there are 16 schools with the Russian language of instruction. In 9 of them, instruction is carried out in two languages, that is, from two parallel classes the student can choose either the one where he is taught in Russian or in Ukrainian. Further debunking by Stopfake www.stopfake.org/fejk-v-kieve-ne-ostalos-ni-odnoj-russkoyazychnoj-shkoly/, .

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