Disinfo: Poland wants to subjugate the remnants of Ukraine

Summary

Ukraine understands that it cannot join NATO during the conflict, but Zelenskyy wants a clear signal that it will be admitted later. The Polish authorities have plans for the remnants of Ukraine and this is the clearest signal the Ukrainian president will ever receive about the country's membership of NATO.

Disproof

Pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign about the war in Ukraine, NATO and an alleged plan by Poland to occupy Western parts of Ukraine. This is part of a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about denying statehood and the disintegration of Ukraine.

This narrative exploits previous pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives and difficult issues in Polish-Ukrainian history, without any factual basis. Poland adheres to international law regarding state borders and has no territorial claims upon Ukraine.

Poland, as well as the EU and the US respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. No neighboring state, except the Russian Federation, violated Ukraine's territorial integrity.

Instead, Poland is supporting Ukrainian refugees coming to Poland; it is allowing millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war access to the labour market and to health and social benefits. Moreover Poland is also actively supporting Ukraine in its fight against the Russian invasion.

See the EU's response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine here along with EU vs Disinfo's Guide to Deciphering Pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's War.

See our examination of the Kremlin historical revisionism directed against Poland here. See also earlier disinformation cases alleging that Poles are stoking nationalist sentiment in Ukraine in order to annex Lviv, that Poland thinks that Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and South-Western Lithuania belong to them, that Poland wants to dismember Ukraine and re-establish a Polish empire, that Ukraine will disintegrate and fall prey to territorial claims of EU member states, that Ukraine is a Western colony belonging to Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.

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  • Reported in: Issue 330
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 09/05/2023
  • Article language(s) Hungarian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Poland, Ukraine, Russia
  • Keywords: NATO, EU/NATO enlargement, Volodymyr Zelensky, Invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian disintegration
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