Disinfo: Ukrainian statehood was born from the Maidan and is weak

Summary

The point is not that Zelenskyy is weak, but that Ukrainian independence and statehood are weak. The current Ukrainian statehood was born from the Maidan and it will die because of the Maidan with a high degree of probability.

Disproof

This is a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative, challenging Ukrainian statehood and Euromaidan.

Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation-state, with its own flag, nationality, language and with a democratically-elected president and parliament. Ukraine is not controlled by any foreign government, while its sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by most of the free world but were violated by Russia in 2014. The EU works closely with Ukraine and supports the democratic development of Ukraine in accordance with the UN Charter’s principles of non-interference into internal affairs and respect towards territorial integrity and political independence.

The history of Ukraine dates back to the times of the Kyivan Rus’ in the 9th-13th centuries.

See earlier disinformation cases claiming that Ukraine is an anti-Russian state under Western control, that Ukraine has become a vassal of Germany and Ukraine is under US control.

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Reported in: Issue 178
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 14/12/2019
Language/target audience: Russian
Country: Ukraine
Keywords: Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian disintegration, Euromaidan, Ukrainian statehood
Outlet: Odnako @ Pervyi kanal time 12:13 - 12:24

After Bolivia, Mexico is next in line in Washington’s destabilisation list

Washington’s strategists, inspired by the coup they orchestrated in Bolivia, tried several times to destabilise the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Donald Trump threatened to designate drug cartels as international terrorist organisations, trying to explore the possibility of creating a justification for military operations inside Mexico and in any Latin American country, in order to keep them as its backyard in the future.

December 17, 2019

Disproof

Conspiracy theory. No evidence is provided to support the claim. This is part of a recurrent Russian disinformation narrative about constant US plots to undermine Latin American governments. You can see many examples in our database, such as an alleged CIA-led Twitter campaign and a hybrid war in Bolivia, the engineering of blackouts all over Latin America, the promotion of secessionism in Mexico or Venezuela, the training of Venezuelan exiles in Guyana for military operations inside the country, preparations for a military intervention in that country after forcing Brazil to join NATO or the existence of an alleged 'Operation Condor for the XXIst century'.

Ukraine is under occupation by people from Lviv

Ukraine exists in the regime of an occupied state, where Zelenskyy is not the head of the occupation regime, but he is already under occupation. There is a centre of forces in Lviv, Galicia [a historic Central/ Eastern European region encompassing part of Western Ukraine and Poland], which does not express in any way the interests of the whole of Ukraine. But it impacts everyone.

December 17, 2019

Disproof

Conspiracy theory; no evidence given. This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative linked to messages about Ukraine being governed by nationalists, Nazis and fascists, particularly in Lviv which is often portrayed as a Nazi supporting region.

Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation-state, with its own flag, nationality, language and with a democratically-elected president and parliament.

Ukrainian statehood is an inheritance from Soviet Ukraine

Ukrainian statehood is an inheritance from Soviet Ukraine. Why was there Leninopad [Leninfall: the removal of Soviet monuments as part of the de-Communisation laws]? What remains of Ukrainian statehood besides the Soviet period? There is nothing at all. The Russians had a great empire, the Ukrainians had nothing.

December 17, 2019

Disproof

Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative designed to denigrate the history of Ukraine, Ukrainian statehood and its independence.

Ukraine is recognised in international law as a sovereign nation-state, with its own flag, nationality, language and with a democratically-elected president and parliament.