DISINFO: Russia never attacked Ukraine
SUMMARY
-When Russia says it is not a threat to Ukraine. There are people who are still sceptical, what can we tell them?
-Why on earth would they consider Russia as a threat? Russia is one of the guarantors of the peace agreements signed in Minsk six years ago. Russia has never attacked Ukraine.
RESPONSE
A recurrent narrative about Russia's peaceful intentions in Ukraine. The attacks against Ukraine in 2014-2015 and the current situation in Donbas are being dismissed this way as blatant slander.
The war in Ukraine is not a civil conflict but a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces, ongoing since February 2014.
There is irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in Ukraine. The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has stated that “the information available suggests that the situation within the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol amounts to an international armed conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation. This international armed conflict began at the latest on 26 February 2014 when the Russian Federation deployed members of its armed forces to gain control over parts of the Ukrainian territory without the consent of the Ukrainian Government."
The European Union stated in July 2014 that "arms and fighters continue flowing into Ukraine from the Russian Federation".
According to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Russian special forces and troops operated to mobilise, lead, equip, and support separatist militias in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine from spring 2014 to the present, although their presence was denied by Moscow. On top of that, Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Russia's military presence in Ukraine in 2015.
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