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Disinfo: Russophobic and Nazi Ukraine will be destroyed by Russia

Summary

Following the 2014 coup and finding itself under complete control of the West, Ukraine started disrupting all economic ties with Russia as was ordered by the West. In accordance with the Association Agreement with the EU, Ukraine opened its markets for the EU products but faced EU’s closed markets or minimal import quotas. As a result, many Ukrainian branches of the economy started stagnating. After the 2014 coup, Ukraine essentially ended being a state and turned into a former country. Historically Ukrainian territories were part of Rus’, then Russian empire, and then USSR, which is a big Russia. Since 2014 the West, a global Russian enemy succeeded in reformatting Russia’s former part, non-country Ukraine, into Anti-Russia.

In a new Anti-Russian Banderstadt, less than 2 percent of the population, which holds Nazi and neo-fascist views, keeps under control the rest of the population, zombieing them with Russophobia and pushing for war with Russia. Even Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot deal with them. In other words, Ukraine has turned into a weapon of the vicious enemy and a hostile arena towards Russia and all Russian people. The Anti-Russia existence close to Russia’s borders is wrong and strategically harmful for Russia. Russia will not tolerate it and, sooner or later, this hostile springboard will be destroyed. Russians of Novorossiya, Malorossiya (‘Little Russia’), and other historic regions will not leave to Russophobic Ukraine any territories.

Disproof

This publication contains a nearly complete collection of most popular anti-Ukrainian pro-Kremlin propagandistic claims about Ukraine under external control, the Nazis/Fascists in Ukraine, coup d'etat in Ukraine, West-staged colour revolutions, and West's attempts to tear Ukraine apart from Russia and to make it anti-Russian. It also repeats recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives undermining the statehood of Ukraine and misrepresenting EU relations with Ukraine, and paints the war in Donbas as a result of Ukraine's aggressive actions, thus disregarding the actual sequence of events and extensive factual evidence confirming ongoing Russian military presence in Donbas.

Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation-state, with its own flag, nationality, language and with a democratically-elected president and parliament. The claims that Ukraine is under complete Western control is groundless. The US and the European Union continue to support Ukraine, its territorial integrity, and sovereignty against Russian aggression. The Ukrainian Statistical Service informs that the EU accounts for 43% of Ukrainian exports. In 2017, Ukraine exported 17.5 bln USD worth of goods to the EU. The negative trade balance decreased from 10 bln USD to 3 bln USD. See here for further information about the DCFTA and the cooperation between the EU and Ukraine. Ukraine is the largest recipient of the EU’s macro-financial aid among all non-EU countries.

There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s violent dispersal of peaceful student protests against Yanukovych's sudden decision to withdraw from the Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. See the full debunk here.

The publication also uses a derogatory term Malorossiya ('Little Russia') which derives from imperial Russian and Russian irredentist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians and undermining Ukraine's sovereignty. It also mentions Novorossiya.

Read our stories about anti-Ukrainian propaganda Ukraine Under Information Fire and Five Years of Falsehoods: Was it Worth the While for the Kremlin? as well as earlier disinformation cases claiming that Ukraine was ruled by the Nazis, that US State Department is Gauleiter’s structure over Ukraine, that Ukraine started the war in Donbas, and that the EU has turned away from Ukraine.

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News agency REX (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 174
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 31/10/2019
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: USSR, Russia, Ukraine
  • Keywords: Volodymyr Zelensky, West, European Union, Anti-Russian, Historical revisionism, Russian superiority, Russian expansionism, Ukrainian disintegration, Economic difficulties, Coup, Russophobia, Conspiracy theory, Nazi/Fascist

Disclaimer

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