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DISINFO: Ukraine is a US client state
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: RT Germany (old) (archived)*
  • Date of publication: April 24, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): German
  • Reported in: Issue 194
  • Countries / regions discussed: US, Ukraine
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Ukrainian statehood

DISINFO: Ukraine is a US client state

SUMMARY

(…) as Ukraine is a US client state, the Western media, generally speaking, do not cover its affairs critically: Ukrainian elites “may be sons of bitches, but they are our sons of bitches”.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative undermining the statehood of Ukraine and US presence in Europe. See more examples of disinformation messages alleging that Ukraine is a colony of IMF and George Soros, Ukraine is run by pro-EU oligarchic Nazis, supported by the US, US embassy controls decisions taken in Ukraine.

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