Disinfo: Russia is a victim of anti-Russian rhetoric and it is not a threat to Ukraine

Summary

The USA, NATO and Europe are spreading anti-Russian rhetoric and misrepresenting Russia as a threat to Ukraine. Russia is not a threat, it is simply concerned about a potential provocation from Ukraine on their mutual border. After all, there was an armed, unconstitutional coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014, supported by Europe. The 2014 referendum in Crimea referendum was in fact legitimate and held under the presence of numerous international observers.

Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the war in Ukraine, and illegal annexation of Crimea.

The claim that Russia is merely defending against provocations on the border is false. Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity continue to be violated by acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since 2014.

As for the Crimean referendum, no international body has recognised its legitimacy. On 27 March 2014, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution in which it 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. On 17 December 2018, the UN General Assembly confirmed its non-recognition of the illegal annexation of Crimea.

The claim that there was a coup in Ukraine in 2014 is another recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Euromaidan. There was no coup d'état in Ukraine, read here for further debunking.

Similar cases of disinformation in the database allege that there was a coup in Ukraine in February 2014, that the EU supported an unconstitutional coup d'état in Ukraine led by the US, that Russia is not part of the internal conflict in Ukraine, or that the Crimean people chose to be with Russia through a democratic procedure.

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  • Reported in: Issue 267
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 04/12/2021
  • Article language(s) Bulgarian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine, Russia, US, Europe
  • Keywords: War in Ukraine, Crimea, illegal annexation, Eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian statehood, Manipulated elections/referendum, Anti-Russian, Coup, Euromaidan
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Disinfo: The US and NATO won’t hesitate to risk the lives of Ukrainians in a war

Ukrainians could be used by NATO and mostly by the US to start the conflict in Donbas. Those allies don’t hesitate to twist reality, pointing fingers at Russia and blaming it as a threat. The US is willing to do everything to continue in its dominant position, and if to do so it must risk the lives of Polish, Ukrainians or whoever, it will do. Some are willing to spark the fire as soon as possible, without considering that they can also get burnt and the great human damage that this may cause.

Dec 03, 2021
Disproof

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about NATO and about Ukraine as a pawn of Western powers, in this case as part of an ongoing disinformation campaign about Russia’s military buildup on Ukraine’s borders.

In fact, international concerns emerged in late October 2021 due to the concentration and transportation of Russian troops from other locations, tracked by military experts in the last months through satellite images, and which included the deployment of as more than 90,000 troops, as well as of certain specialized military units, electronic warfare systems and heavy-armoured vehicles. Altogether, these elements seem to point to the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Disinfo: The West screams about Russian threat, but ignores violation of rights of minorities in Ukraine

Western cries and wails about “the build-up of Russian forces on the Ukrainian borders" are heard daily, and the “expected Russian aggression against Ukraine,” and Russian threats that shake the air, without anyone paying attention to the conscious and active activities taking place. They represent a continuous and deep violation of the rights of national minorities, especially linguistic, educational and cultural rights, in conjunction with a tendency to glorify Nazism, falsify history, and the desire to drown out any alternative viewpoints in the media field, including the closure of media outlets that are not in line with that general Western trend.

Dec 03, 2021
Disproof

A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative, part of an ongoing disinformation campaign aiming to deflect any Russian responsibility for the escalation of tensions with Ukraine as a result of Russia’s military build-up on the border. Read more about it in our analysis.

There is no ethnocide in Ukraine. The Russian culture - language and literature - (which the article is hinting at) was not touched in Ukraine. Kyiv adopted a Law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language, without discriminating against any languages. Read more about it here.

Disinfo: The goal of current tensions around Ukraine is to promote its integration into NATO

Among the main goals of the current hysteria about the concentration of Russian troops on Ukraine’s borders is to sabotage Nord Stream 2 and everything related to Ukraine’s NATO membership. With these tensions and the media hype, the aim is to encourage the process of integrating Ukraine into NATO, even without a formal procedure. This way more troops and long-range weapons can be deployed on its territory, which obviously will cause a response from Russia.

Dec 03, 2021
Disproof

The claim is false, part of an ongoing disinformation campaign about Russia’s military buildup in Ukraine’s borders, aiming to deflect any Russian responsibility for the increase of tensions.

Concerns about this buildup are very real, as the concentration and transportation of Russian troops from other locations have been tracked by military experts in the last months through satellite images, and includes the deployment of more than 90,000 troops, as well as of certain specialised military units, electronic warfare systems and heavy-armoured vehicles.