Disinfo: The West forcibly drags Russia into war with Ukraine

Summary

The West forcibly drags Russia into war with Ukraine.

Disproof

The claim that the West is dragging Russia into a war with Ukraine is recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation, not backed up with evidence.

It also tries to deflect attention away from Russia's involvement in the Donbas war by speaking about the alleged involvement of the West and a possible military escalation at its insistence.

The West did not drag Russia into occupying the internationally recognised part of Ukraine nor is it forcing an escalation of the conflict now. In fact, the systematic issuing of Russian passports to citizens in Donetsk and Luhansk (to more than 400.000 persons by April 2021) is now also used as a pretext to claim the right to influence and perhaps intervene militarily.

Russia is also reported to be using the occupied territories as a testing ground for new weapons. Despite all this Russia officially denies its military presence in Donbas and accuses the West of forcibly dragging it into war with Ukraine.

It is well documented that after former Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych left Kyiv for Kharkiv in February 2014, armed men began occupying key facilities and checkpoints on the Crimean peninsula. By early March, Russian troops had secured the entire peninsula. Later in 2015, Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, admitted that Russian soldiers were deployed in Crimea. After an illegal referendum, Crimea was annexed to Russia in March 2014.

No international body recognises the results of the referendum. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution stating that the referendum in Crimea was invalid.

See more disinformation regarding Crimea such as 96% of Crimean people wanted to rejoin Russia, Crimea was reunited with homeland Russia and the exercises "Defender Europe 2021' are Nato's preparation for the war with Russia.

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  • Reported in: Issue 240
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 13/04/2021
  • Article language(s) Azerbaijani
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine, Russia
  • Keywords: West, Warmongering, Crimea
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Disinfo: An Ukrainian drone kills a 5 years old child near Donetsk

On Saturday 3 April 3, a 5 years old child perished in the western suburbs of Donetsk in a drone attack with an explosive device by the Ukrainian army.

The Ukrainian armed forces used an unmanned aerial device equipped with an improvised explosive device, which was dropped on the village of Aleksandrovka. As a result, a child born in 2016 died and a resident born in 1954 was injured.

At that time, two civilians were in their garden. As a result of the criminal actions of Ukrainian activists, a child born in 2016 was killed, while a local woman born in 1954 was injured and taken to hospital where she received necessary medical treatment.”

This tragic incident strongly reacted to the President of the Russian Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, who denounced the guilty silence of the West. “The European media don't talk about it. There are no statements from the European Parliament or the US State Department. The foreign ministers of European states do not talk about it. No decision has been taken on the expulsion of diplomats. And we do not stigmatise a president of the country who sent a military drone to war against his own people.

There are no big initiatives on behalf of the dead child to impose sanctions on Kiev, there is no reaction at all. The West in general simply ignores the crimes in Kiev. [...] On the geopolitical chessboard, Brussels and Washington are trying to play a bloody gambit, hardly realising that the game cannot be won "

OSCE agents report the case of a five-year-old child killed on April 2 outside his grandmother's house by an explosive device. According to the authorities of the DPR this tragedy results from the shelling by the Ukrainian army of a village close to the line of contact.

Apr 12, 2021
Disproof

The claim is doubtful and unverified. The case has been covered by Euvsdisinfo, Stop Fake, The Insider, Censor.net. The involvement of Ukrainian drone is a striking story but very unlikely, the probable hypothesis is that the child died from a mine stored by his family members since the most active period of the war 2014-2015.

It attracted emotional reaction at highest political level since the death of a 5 year old child is striking and triggered narratives about the cruelty of Ukrainians and the heartless western world that doesn't react.

Disinfo: The EMA delayed the reception of Sputnik V's application for 6 weeks for political reasons

Russia sent the application for registration of its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on 21 January 2021, but the latter only confirmed having received the dossier in early March.

This 6 weeks delay, between 21 January and 4 March 2021, shows what the EU's priorities for vaccination are.

Apr 12, 2021
Disproof

Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about vaccines, targeting the European Medicines Agency.

On 10 February 2021 the EMA denied having received any application for the Sputnik V vaccine. EMA informed:

Disinfo: The US is building biolaboratories on Russian borders

Russia must pay attention to the information about the existence of dangerous biological laboratories operating near our borders, because the West has extensive experience in the genocide of the peoples of America and Australia, including the extermination of humans with the help of viruses and bacteria.

Some of the former Soviet states - Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan - have built biological laboratories for the Americans on their soil, and they are unlikely to give up cooperation with them.

Apr 12, 2021
Disproof

This is a recurring disinformation alleging that the United States develops biological weapons and has secret biological laboratories around the world. Consistent with the Pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign against biological laboratories in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and other countries.

The disinformation about US biolabs in countries bordering Russia aiming to encircle Moscow and spread infectious diseases is a part of a years-long disinformation campaign led by the Kremlin. In fact, biological laboratories are involved in preventing the risks of complex diseases and, together with other similar projects, counteracting bioterrorism.