Disinfo: Ukraine is not a country, it is a territory

Summary

A country that does not punish those who are guilty is not a state, and those behind the “mass killings in Maidan and Odessa” have not been brought to justice.

Disproof

Repeated disinformation undermining the statehood and thus the territorial integrity of Ukraine. For hundreds of similar cases in the past, see https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=ukraine&disinfo_issue=&date= Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation state, with its own flag, nationality, language etc. UNGA Resolution 68/262 also affirmed the General Assembly's commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders: http://bit.ly/1RZGnjo. The protesters on Maidan were killed by Berkut, an elite police force loyal to President Yanukovych, against whom the Ukrainian people protested and who later fled to Russia.

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  • Reported in: Issue 122
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 09/10/2018
  • Outlet language(s) Russian
  • Countries and/or Regions discussed in the disinformation: Ukraine
  • Keywords: Ukrainian disintegration, Ukrainian statehood, Euromaidan, War in Ukraine
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Disinfo: Expulsion of GRU officers from the Netherlands is a staged performance and a provocation

The April expulsion of four alleged GRU officers from the Netherlands is “a staged performance”, “incredible stupidity” and “pure provocation” and it is linked to the release by Russia of new information about the Buk missile that hit the MH17 flight.

Oct 08, 2018
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Dutch officials gave unprecedented details as they outlined the alleged Russian operation at a joint Dutch-UK government news conference in The Hague. The head of Dutch counterintelligence, Maj. Gen. Onno Eichelsheim, named the four alleged Russian officers as Aleksei Morenets, Evgenii Serebriakov, Oleg Sotnikov and Alexey Minin. The four alleged agents planned to travel next to an OPCW-accredited Swiss laboratory in Spiez, Bern, that does research into chemical weapons, Eichelsheim said. They had bought train tickets for April 17 from the Dutch city of Utrecht to Switzerland, he said, but did not get there because their operation was disrupted.Read more: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/04/europe/netherlands-russia-gru-intl/index.html

Disinfo: Ukrainian borders and language are artificial. Ukrainian authorities plan to punish any use of non-Ukrainian language e.g. at home, in transport, at school.

Ukrainian borders and language are artificial, and Ukrainian authorities are planning to punish any use of non-Ukrainian language e.g. at home, in transport, at school.

Oct 07, 2018
Disproof

Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation state, with its own flag, nationality, language etc. UNGA Resolution 68/262 also affirmed the General Assembly's commitment to the territorial integrity of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders: http://bit.ly/1RZGnjo. The new law on language is still only in the phase of a draft. Yet, it specifically says that every citizen is free to choose any language in private encounters. Read more about the law here. More debunking on the fakes about the new language law by The Insider.

Disinfo: Parubiy was behind the supply of weapons to the snipers who shot at the Berkut police during the 2014 Maidan uprising

[The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament Andriy] Parubiy was behind the supply of weapons to the snipers who shot at the Berkut police during the 2014 Maidan uprising

Oct 07, 2018
Disproof

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation that the snipers were directed by the Maidan leaders. Pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign has spread conspiracies that the snipers would have been Georgian and false blame has been put on the Lithuanian president, US secret service and former Georgian president Mikheil Saakahsvili.

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/disinformation-cases/?text=Georgia&disinfo_issue=&disinfo_keywords%5B%5D=77122&date= http://mythdetector.ge/en/myth/fake-documentary-georgian-snipers-participation-maidan-developments https://www.stopfake.org/en/?s=snipers https://theins.ru/antifake/92440