Disinfo: Poland successfully involves Ukraine in the project of a “new Greater Poland”

Summary

The Polish geo-cultural strategy on the involvement of Ukraine in the project of a new Greater Poland is very successful. The Polish penetration of Ukraine is indeed a very effective method - it is reflected in the creation of several areas of cooperation, including the economic platform, big business, trade exchange between small and medium enterprises. These areas belong to the unwritten “Polish World”.

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This message is a part of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign about Polish-Ukrainian relations and alleged Polish “expansionism”.

The claim that Poland realises such “geo-cultural” projects as a “new Greater Poland” and the “Polish World” is a conspiracy theory – such “projects” do not exist at all. Poland fully supports the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, it does not have any territorial claims against its neighbours and it rejects any “imperial” ambitions towards other countries. Read more about the Eastern policy of Poland here.

The attempt to “invent” an imaginary concept of the “Polish World” may be used by the pro-Kremlin media for the ideological justification of the existence of the “Russian World”, which is a nationalist geopolitical concept giving ground to the Russian expansionism in the post-Soviet sphere.

Read more disinformation messages concerning Polish-Ukrainian relations: Polish policy towards Ukraine is shaped by the Americans, Chauvinist outbursts of Ukraine do not bother the USA if they are combined with Russophobia and The Polish attitude towards Ukraine is the result of American and Israeli pressure.

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  • Reported in: Issue 242
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 29/04/2021
  • Article language(s) Polish
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Poland, Ukraine
  • Keywords: Imperialism/colonialism, Russian world, Ukrainian statehood
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All this only serves to maintain Europe under the US geopolitical aegis, along with UK and Poland, which is their lapdog. Europe is at a crossroad: for the first time, its first trade partner is not the US but China, and Russia will have to be a first-class trade partner as well. So in face of this change, there is resistance from those who, until now, rather than partners, have been the masters and owners of Western Europe.

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This is part of a disinformation campaign about the events surrounding the Vrbetice explosion in 2014, which killed two people and led to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Czech Republic in April 2021.

Contrary to the claim, accusations of Russia’s involvement in the Vrbetice explosion in 2014 are backed by conclusive evidence. The investigation by Czech authorities established beyond doubt that GRU [Russia’s military intelligence] agents Anatoly Chepiga and Alexander Mishkin, the same individuals considered responsible for the attempted murder of Sergey Skripal in Salisbury in 2018, were behind the Vrbetice explosion (see here for further details). In the same fashion, the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny wasn’t a plot against Nord Stream 2 but a Russian intelligence operation, as has been proven by international investigators (see here our previous debunk).

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Apr 28, 2021
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Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative attempting to put responsibility for the deterioration in relations between Russia and the West exclusively on the latter, ignoring the reasons behind the sanctions.

The West and specifically the EU has imposed restrictive measures, including sectoral sanctions, as a result of the of the illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's destabilising actions in eastern Ukraine.

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Recurring disinformation message about eastern Ukraine, claiming that the aggression came as a response to the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv, often painted as a coup d'état, while claiming that local dwellers resisted alone without Russian military support and founded the DPR and LPR, at the same time undermining Ukrainian statehood.

Ukraine is not at war with millions of people from Donetsk and Luhansk as pro-Kremlin disinformation often likes to present it. The aim of these messages is to present the situation in Eastern Ukraine as an internal conflict, ignoring irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in the region. These claims intentionally misrepresent the reality of Russia's direct and crucial important support to separatist militant groups in Eastern Ukraine.