DISINFO: Ukraine wants to preserve itself as an anti-Russian project
SUMMARY
Ukraine needs war, it needs to preserve its anti-Russian project. It won’t survive without it.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Russophobia in Ukraine and Ukraine's statehood. Ukraine is a sovereign nation-state, not an anti-Russian project. In 1991, Ukraine gained its independence from the Soviet Union. The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine was adopted on 16 July 1990. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Russia established diplomatic relations and signed a number of important treaties. On 31 May 1997, the countries signed a comprehensive Friendship Treaty. As a result, Russia recognised Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity. It also recognised that Crimea belongs to Ukraine. See a similar case: Ukraine is an anti-Russian and anti-European project of the US.