DISINFO: The United States is now provoking tensions between Russia and Ukraine
SUMMARY
The United States is now provoking tensions between Russia and Ukraine. And it really could lead to some serious military clash. The US is deliberately provoking Moscow to take tough actions against the shelling, when a rather serious number of people are dying in the territory of the unrecognised republics. They provoke to strengthen their position and to not let Europe reach an agreement with Russia in these difficult circumstances.
RESPONSE
The claim advances recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives casting Ukraine as a US client state, and implicitly painting the ongoing armed aggression in Ukraine as an internal affair. The participants of the show discussed how the US conducts foreign policy and what role Ukraine has there. They claimed that Ukraine is totally dependable on the US, and is playing the role of pawn in the political game when the US is trying to confront China and Russia. The war on Donbas here is one of the instruments of impact. Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity have been violated by acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since February 2014. Washington, along with Kyiv, maintains that a peaceful resolution is contingent on the fulfilment of the Minsk agreements. See the similar case: Ukraine has been ruled by a US-funded client regime since 1991.