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Disinfo: Ukraine is under the external control of the US

Summary

Ukraine need to play along with the Americans. They must do everything the United States like because it is they who introduced external control, which Mr. Zelenskyy is not ready to fight.

Disproof

No evidence given. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the EU and US relations with Ukraine.

Ukraine is a sovereign state. The relations between the US and Ukraine are bilateral relations between two independent countries.  The USA recognised Ukraine as an independent state on 25th December 1991.  U.S. policy is centred on realising and strengthening a stable, democratic, prosperous, and free Ukraine more closely integrated into Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures.

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NEWSONE - YouTube (Archived)
  • Reported in: Issue 152
  • DATE OF PUBLICATION: 26/05/2019
  • Language/target audience: Russian
  • Country: Ukraine, US
  • Keywords: Ukraine

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