DISINFO: The US tries to weaken Russia by spoiling Moscow-Kyiv ties
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: RT English (archived)*
  • Date of publication: November 18, 2019
  • Outlet language(s): English
  • Reported in: Issue 173
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Ukraine, Russia
Tags:
Russian superiority Anti-Russian Encircling Russia Destabilising Russia US presence in Europe Ukrainian statehood Russian world

DISINFO: The US tries to weaken Russia by spoiling Moscow-Kyiv ties

SUMMARY

Realising the critical role which Ukraine plays in maintaining Russia’s great-power status, US officials have long tried to drive a wedge between Moscow and Kyiv as a means of weakening Russia globally.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation casting the US as a malign influence on European affairs, Ukraine as a quasi-state with little geopolitical autonomy, and Russia as a great power fending off Western efforts at destabilisation and encirclement. The relations between the US and Ukraine are bilateral relations between two independent countries. The USA recognised Ukraine as an independent state on the 25th December 1991. US policy is centred on realising and strengthening a stable, democratic, prosperous and free Ukraine, more closely integrated into Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures. See here and here for earlier claims that Ukrainian foreign policy is dictated by the West.

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