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Narrative about Russia’s war in Ukraine – and the truth

Thir­teen is tra­di­tion­al­ly con­sid­ered an unlucky num­ber in the West. There­fore, it might not be a bad idea that our col­leagues have expand­ed the pre­vi­ous list of the most pop­u­lar Russ­ian myths from twelve to thir­teen.

What’s the dif­fer­ence? First, some of the pre­vi­ous­ly iden­ti­fied pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion nar­ra­tives regard­ing Ukraine were com­bined. Sec­ond, two nar­ra­tives were sep­a­rat­ed from the “Ukraine is evil/Nazi” group, accord­ing to which Ukraine is los­ing the war and does­n’t exist. If that sen­tence does­n’t make sense to you, then wel­come to pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion.

Below you’ll find many ever­greens. Rep­e­ti­tion is a typ­i­cal modus operan­di for the Krem­lin, so don’t be sur­prised if some of these dis­in­for­ma­tion nar­ra­tives and myths seem familiar—our col­leagues debunked many of them last year.

This time, how­ev­er, these 13 myths were cat­e­go­rized into the three broad­est meta-nar­ra­tives of Russ­ian dis­in­for­ma­tion. The first group describes myths one through four, which char­ac­ter­ize Ukraine, Ukraini­ans, and Ukraini­an­ness as evil and anti-Russ­ian. The sec­ond group con­sists of myths five through nine, which posit the West as Russia’s implaca­ble and strange­ly incom­pe­tent ene­my.

The third group includes myths ten to thir­teen, which por­tray Rus­sia as  supe­ri­or  to the West and Ukraine com­bined. Accord­ing to the Krem­lin, Rus­sia is sim­ply bet­ter: stronger, more legit­i­mate, and bet­ter equipped with weapons. Russ­ian nation­al­ists  also affirm that Rus­sia is moral­ly supe­ri­or because Europe is per­verse.

Genocide against Russian speakers

Ukraine has been attempt­ing to com­mit geno­cide against Russ­ian speak­ers in Don­bass for years, and Rus­sia inter­vened only to pro­tect its own peo­ple. Ukraine also con­ducts false flag oper­a­tions and stages atroc­i­ties to pin on Rus­sia.

To shield them­selves from accu­sa­tions of geno­cide, Krem­lin pro­pa­gan­dists often project their own crimes onto their vic­tims or sim­ply throw around com­plete­ly base­less accu­sa­tions. For exam­ple, they accuse Ukraine of attempt­ed  geno­cide  against Russ­ian speak­ers in Ukraine with­out any evi­dence, often  using fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ries  . The geno­cide nar­ra­tive has been an inte­gral part of the pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign designed to jus­ti­fy Russia’s aggres­sion.

There is no evi­dence that eth­nic nation­als, includ­ing eth­nic Rus­sians or Russ­ian-speak­ers, are per­se­cut­ed by the Ukrain­ian author­i­ties in Don­bas or else­where in Ukraine, let alone that they are threat­ened with exter­mi­na­tion because of their nation­al­i­ty, eth­nic­i­ty or cul­tur­al affil­i­a­tion.

How­ev­er, there is innu­mer­able evi­dence that Russ­ian forces were direct­ly involved in the war crimes in  Bucha,  Irpin ,  Mar­i­upol and oth­er loca­tions. The Unit­ed Nations has  pub­lished a report on this, which lists evi­dence of war crimes by Russ­ian author­i­ties, includ­ing tor­ture, rape, and depor­ta­tion of chil­dren.

In fact,  many  inde­pen­dent  fact check­ers and  media chan­nels  have refut­ed Russia’s claims that Ukrain­ian author­i­ties some­how orches­trat­ed Russ­ian war crimes, par­tic­u­lar­ly in Bucha.

Dirty bomb

Ukraine is los­ing, its lead­er­ship is des­per­ate, and mil­i­tary col­lapse is inevitable. More­over, Ukraine is so des­per­ate that it is attack­ing civil­ian nuclear facil­i­ties and work­ing on a “dirty bomb.”

Ukraine’s coun­terof­fen­sive in 2023 achieved only minor gains. How­ev­er, since Russia’s inva­sion on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022, Ukraine has  recap­tured about half  of the ter­ri­to­ry orig­i­nal­ly occu­pied by Rus­sia in Feb­ru­ary 2022. The cur­rent bat­tle­field sit­u­a­tion may appear to be a  stale­mate  , but Ukraine con­tin­ues to record  impres­sive vic­to­ries  on the Black Sea.

All in all, Ukraine’s suc­cess in repelling Russia’s mas­sive, ille­gal, and unpro­voked inva­sion remains inspir­ing. The coun­try is nei­ther polit­i­cal­ly nor mil­i­tar­i­ly close to col­lapse, even if inter­na­tion­al sup­port is some­times not as expe­di­ent as it could be.

There is no evi­dence to sup­port Russia’s claims that Kyiv is mobi­liz­ing chil­dren, women, or the elder­ly for ser­vice on the front lines,  or that Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky is delib­er­ate­ly send­ing  Ukrain­ian troops   into slaugh­ter. The evi­dence points in the oth­er direc­tion: Russ­ian gen­er­als are send­ing their troops, many of whom  were recruit­ed in pris­ons , on sui­ci­dal ” flesh attacks .”

The myth of Ukraine’s nuclear plans or “dirty bombs” is pure fic­tion and nuclear saber-rat­tling. In fact, Ukraine has been nuclear-free since 1994, fol­low­ing the sign­ing of the  Budapest Mem­o­ran­dum  . It is one of the few coun­tries in the world to aban­don its nuclear weapons and elim­i­nate those left over from the Sovi­et Union. Rus­sia, on the oth­er hand, bla­tant­ly vio­lat­ed its com­mit­ment by sign­ing the treaty, in which it pledged to respect Ukraine’s inde­pen­dence, sov­er­eign­ty, and bor­ders.

The Krem­lin is also quick to deploy nuclear nar­ra­tives to deflect blame, issue thin­ly veiled threats, or resort to nuclear black­mail to sup­port its aggres­sion. Cre­at­ing an image of a  cor­nered but nuclear-armed beast  (as pro-Krem­lin dem­a­gogues con­sis­tent­ly point out) has advan­tages for the Krem­lin.

Rus­sia used the accu­sa­tion that Ukraine was try­ing to plant a “ dirty bomb” as a pre­text  for a larg­er esca­la­tion . Ukraine  invit­ed the IAEA to inves­ti­gate  the sites where Rus­sia claimed dirty bombs were being devel­oped. The IAEA found  no evi­dence  that Ukraine was devel­op­ing nuclear mate­ri­als.

The alle­ga­tions that Ukraine is delib­er­ate­ly dam­ag­ing its own civil­ian nuclear pow­er plants are  also unsub­stan­ti­at­edIndeed, Ukraine and the Unit­ed States have repeat­ed­ly attempt­ed  to defuse ten­sions  over the Zapor­izhzhia nuclear pow­er plant. Rus­sia has tak­en numer­ous reck­less actions against the facil­i­ty. It has  deployed mil­i­tary equip­ment  and  troops  on the site,  used the sur­round­ing area as a base  for mis­sile attacks, effec­tive­ly tak­ing con­trol of the plant, and  cut the main pow­er line  sev­er­al times. The IAEA has not con­firmed any bomb­ings or attacks on the plant by Ukraine, either  before  or  after  the Krem­lin made these alle­ga­tions.

Ukraine doesn’t exist (1)

Ukraine does­n’t exist as a state. In ref­er­en­dums, the peo­ple there decid­ed to return to Rus­sia.

Deny­ing Ukraine’s state­hood and sov­er­eign­ty is anoth­er typ­i­cal nar­ra­tive that pro-Krem­lin pun­dits have been pro­mot­ing for years. Pres­i­dent Putin him­self has fre­quent­ly dis­tort­ed his­to­ry to claim that there were no Ukraini­ans until the Bol­she­viks  cre­at­ed them . Yet Ukraine is a sov­er­eign state with its own iden­ti­ty and a  long his­to­ry .

As men­tioned above, by sign­ing the  Budapest Mem­o­ran­dum in 1994, Rus­sia  effec­tive­ly rec­og­nized Ukraine and pledged to respect its ter­ri­to­ry and sov­er­eign­ty. Since then, the Krem­lin lead­er­ship has flout­ed the Mem­o­ran­dum,  cyn­i­cal­ly lying  about its con­tents and claim­ing that Ukraine is vio­lat­ing it. Rus­sia has also used  pseu­do-ref­er­en­dums  in occu­pied ter­ri­to­ries to jus­ti­fy aban­don­ing the Mem­o­ran­dum and  ille­gal­ly seiz­ing land .

The bot­tom line is that the Krem­lin has done every­thing it can to under­mine Ukraine’s state­hood. Under these cir­cum­stances, the deter­mi­na­tion with which Ukraini­ans defend their state and their iden­ti­ty is par­tic­u­lar­ly impres­sive.

Ukraine doesn’t exist (2)

“Ukraini­ans” don’t real­ly exist because they’re actu­al­ly Rus­sians. Their Nazi lead­ers and West­ern usurpers have brain­washed them into believ­ing they’re Ukraini­ans.

How­ev­er, the Ukraini­ans in the trench­es defend­ing their coun­try against Russ­ian attacks seem cer­tain of their iden­ti­ty. They know who is attack­ing them, who is help­ing them defend them­selves, and what they are defend­ing.

Nonethe­less, Krem­lin pro­pa­gan­dists, includ­ing Putin him­self, bizarrely claim that Ukraini­ans and Rus­sians  are one peo­ple  and must be unit­ed, nat­u­ral­ly under Putin’s gen­tle, lov­ing gaze. In this alter­nate real­i­ty, so-called Ukraini­ans suf­fer from a false state of con­scious­ness  instilled in them by the West  , which has detached them from their true Russ­ian iden­ti­ty. Accord­ing to this twist­ed log­ic, Rus­sia is actu­al­ly sav­ing Ukraine by  return­ing it to the Russ­ian world .

It’s always dif­fi­cult to con­vince oth­ers that you know their inter­ests bet­ter than they do. And it’s even hard­er to con­vince oth­ers that you’ll save them by drop­ping bombs on them. Of course, Ukraini­ans and Rus­sians share a great deal of his­to­ry and cul­ture. The great irony is that by ille­gal­ly invad­ing Ukraine, Putin is forc­ing the war for inde­pen­dence on the Ukraini­ans, which will inevitably strength­en their unique Ukrain­ian iden­ti­ty rather than weak­en it.

The West, especially the United States, started the war in Ukraine

The West, espe­cial­ly the Unit­ed States, start­ed the war in Ukraine. Moscow had no choice but to defend itself. Rus­sia is now fight­ing against the com­bined pow­er of the “col­lec­tive West,” which seeks to weak­en or destroy Rus­sia through war. Mil­i­tary aid from the West only pro­longs Ukraine’s suf­fer­ing.

he cur­rent large-scale war began  with Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine  on Feb­ru­ary 24, 2022. The false claim that the West, with Ukraine as its proxy, is the aggres­sor is a clas­sic dis­in­for­ma­tion tac­tic  to por­tray Rus­sia as the vic­tim of its own war. Although this nar­ra­tive is patent­ly absurd, it serves  as a ral­ly­ing cry for the increas­ing­ly closed  infor­ma­tion envi­ron­ment in Rus­sia  to mobi­lize pub­lic sup­port for the Kremlin’s author­i­tar­i­an poli­cies.

Nor is Rus­sia fight­ing against the ” col­lec­tive West .” Experts close to the Krem­lin deploy this nar­ra­tive when­ev­er Ukraine  receives mil­i­tary sup­port  from its West­ern part­ners or Rus­sia  los­es its influ­ence  over tem­porar­i­ly occu­pied ter­ri­to­ries in Ukraine.  The EU,  the USA  and  many NATO mem­ber states have pro­vid­ed mil­i­tary sup­port to Ukraine to help it repel Russia’s unpro­voked attack, but they are not involved in the fight­ing. The West does not intend  to destroy Rus­sia . It wants Rus­sia to stop try­ing to destroy Ukraine.

Secret bioweapons

The US is fund­ing secret bioweapons devel­op­ment pro­grams con­duct­ed in lab­o­ra­to­ries in Ukraine and else­where.

Fab­ri­cat­ed sto­ries about “secret US bio­labs” are a clas­sic case of a con­spir­a­cy the­o­ry mixed with a  scare-mon­ger­ing tac­tic , which the Krem­lin fre­quent­ly uses to dis­tract and con­fuse. This tac­tic was ini­tial­ly intend­ed to hin­der the  US-Ukraine part­ner­ship  to reduce bio­log­i­cal threats. To this end, the pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion ecosys­tem recy­cled an old  dis­in­for­ma­tion cam­paign to jus­ti­fy Russia’s unpro­voked attack on Ukraine.

Pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion attempts  to blur the line between bio­log­i­cal weapons and bio­log­i­cal researchto  spread fearwhile dis­cred­it­ing Ukraine. Author­i­ta­tive sources, includ­ing  Izu­mi Nakamit­su, the UN High Rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Dis­ar­ma­ment Affairs , have repeat­ed­ly refut­ed the claims that US-fund­ed bio­log­i­cal lab­o­ra­to­ries in Ukraine were being used for mil­i­tary pur­pos­es.

Western sanctions against Russia are illegal

West­ern sanc­tions against Rus­sia are ille­gal, desta­bi­lize the glob­al econ­o­my, and increase the cost of liv­ing for ordi­nary cit­i­zens around the world. Sanc­tions strength­en Rus­sia and have a knock-on effect on the Euro­pean econ­o­my. EU cit­i­zens are protest­ing against the sanc­tions and the lead­ers who enforced them.

Pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion about the EU and West­ern sanc­tions is fraught with con­tra­dic­tions. Sanc­tions are, in some ways, an  ille­gal ,  desta­bi­liz­ing  form of coer­cion, yet at the same time,  they don’t work  and  actu­al­ly strength­en Rus­sia  . This dis­in­for­ma­tion nar­ra­tive down­plays the impact of  sanc­tions  on tar­get groups in Rus­sia and cre­ates the false impres­sion that the EU  is col­laps­ing . Inter­na­tion­al­ly, the Krem­lin seeks to stoke unfound­ed fears that West­ern mea­sures against Rus­sia would have neg­a­tive glob­al reper­cus­sions.

All EU sanc­tions are ful­ly com­pli­ant with oblig­a­tions under inter­na­tion­al law. The sanc­tions reduce Russia’s abil­i­ty to finance the war and pro­cure crit­i­cal com­po­nents for its mil­i­tary-indus­tri­al com­plex.

In ear­ly 2024,  Ros­stat, Russia’s state sta­tis­tics agency, report­ed  that the econ­o­my would have grown by over 3 per­cent in 2023. How­ev­er, many econ­o­mists  believe that Russia’s eco­nom­ic data is not trans­par­ent and reli­able. Some  even sus­pect  that the sta­tis­tics are fal­si­fied.

Even tak­ing Russia’s fig­ures at face val­ue, the country’s seem­ing­ly pos­i­tive macro­eco­nom­ic fig­ures are large­ly the result of the shift toward a war econ­o­my. This shift  is pri­mar­i­ly focused  on the indus­tri­al pro­duc­tion of mil­i­tary equip­ment for the inva­sion of Ukraine, much of which is lat­er destroyed or con­sumed on the bat­tle­field, leav­ing oth­er eco­nom­ic sec­tors  neglect­ed  . For­eign direct invest­ment  has dried up  almost com­plete­ly.

Accord­ing to data ana­lyzed by the Bank of Fin­land Insti­tute for Emerg­ing Economies,   it is becom­ing increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult for Rus­sia to main­tain its cur­rent GDP growth rate because its recov­ery depends on war-relat­ed indus­tries. Con­tin­ued increas­es in pub­lic spend­ing are unsus­tain­able, and the mil­i­tary indus­try has already report­ed capac­i­ty con­straints. The cur­rent focus on mil­i­tary pro­duc­tion has divert­ed resources from Russia’s civil­ian indus­tries, mak­ing it more dif­fi­cult to rely on indus­tries that typ­i­cal­ly form the back­bone of mod­ern economies for long-term growth. Fur­ther­more, Russ­ian mil­i­tary spend­ing is very high. For exam­ple, the mas­sive mis­sile attack on Ukraine on Jan­u­ary 2, 2024, cost Rus­sia  around USD 620 mil­lion .

At the same time, the ruble has expe­ri­enced a sig­nif­i­cant  deval­u­a­tion  . Infla­tion  is sky­rock­et­ing  , and there are signs of  eco­nom­ic over­heat­ing . As a result, more and more Russ­ian cit­i­zens are feel­ing the finan­cial strain of the war in  their dai­ly lives..

Europe is weak and divided

Europe is weak and divid­ed. The EU and its lead­ers are pup­pets of the US. EU sanc­tions caused a glob­al food short­age by ban­ning Russ­ian agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts and an ener­gy cri­sis by ban­ning Russ­ian oil and gas imports.

Pro-Krem­lin chan­nels  reg­u­lar­ly por­tray  Euro­pean states as pup­pet states or vas­sals of the US and NATO in order to den­i­grate them. Read our analy­sis of the Kremlin’s claims of  lost sov­er­eign­ty.of the EU. How­ev­er, in Feb­ru­ary 2024, the sup­pos­ed­ly weak and divid­ed EU mus­tered the polit­i­cal will to approve  a 50 bil­lion Ukraine facil­i­ty to finan­cial­ly sup­port Ukraine’s recov­ery.

The EU is not Russia’s ene­my. How­ev­er, the bilat­er­al rela­tion­ship is severe­ly dam­aged by Russia’s unpro­voked and unjus­ti­fied large-scale inva­sion of Ukraine. The Euro­pean Coun­cil has adopt­ed  12 sanc­tions pack­ages against Rus­sia and Belarus. These restric­tions are intend­ed to weak­en Russia’s abil­i­ty to finance the war and, in par­tic­u­lar, tar­get the polit­i­cal, mil­i­tary, and eco­nom­ic elite respon­si­ble for the war. By impos­ing sanc­tions on Rus­sia, the EU aims to send a strong sig­nal of deter­mi­na­tion and uni­ty to the Krem­lin and dimin­ish Russia’s abil­i­ty to wage war.

With regard to the inter­na­tion­al impact of sanc­tions, impor­tant excep­tions apply to EU sanc­tions They explic­it­ly exclud­ed food and fer­til­iz­ers. A  major source The rea­son for ris­ing ener­gy prices was not the sanc­tions, but Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine in 2022.

European countries urgently need Russian oil and gas

Euro­pean coun­tries urgent­ly need Russ­ian oil and gas and will even­tu­al­ly col­lapse with­out them.

The Krem­lin has a long tra­di­tion of using ener­gy as a weapon in its for­eign rela­tions, and spread­ing dis­in­for­ma­tion is an inte­gral part of this tac­tic. Only this time, Russia’s gam­bit to intim­i­date the EU by  cut­ting off gas flows  back­fired spec­tac­u­lar­ly when Europe did­n’t  freeze over in the win­ter . When Rus­sia demand­ed that Europe choose between Ukraine and ener­gy from Rus­sia, Europe’s unan­i­mous response was “Ukraine.”

The EU and its Mem­ber States quick­ly took  sev­er­al coun­ter­mea­suresto ensure ener­gy secu­ri­ty, for exam­ple, the  REPow­erEU-Plan and the plan “ Gas Sav­ings for a Safe Win­ter’, which con­sist­ed of a vol­un­tary reduc­tion in nat­ur­al gas demand by 15%. The EU’s nat­ur­al gas reserves were full and by Feb­ru­ary 2024 they were over 80% full. Europe  diver­si­fied its gas imports and cir­cum­vent­ed Russia’s ener­gy black­mail.

Pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion also attempts to dri­ve wedges into transat­lantic uni­ty by paint­ing a false pic­ture of lost EU sov­er­eign­ty. Media out­lets claim that the US has sub­ju­gat­ed the EU and is prof­it­ing from tur­moil in glob­al ener­gy mar­kets. How­ev­er, ener­gy diver­si­fi­ca­tion is a cor­ner­stone  of EU ener­gy pol­i­cy.It con­tributes to strength­en­ing Europe’s ener­gy secu­ri­ty by  pre­vent­ing monop­o­liza­tion  and increas­ing  com­pe­ti­tion  in the ener­gy mar­ket.

Russia’s victory over Ukraine is inevitable.

Russia’s vic­to­ry over Ukraine is inevitable. Ukraine and the West should accept this and stop refus­ing to engage in peace nego­ti­a­tions. The world sup­ports Rus­sia more than it does the West or Ukraine.

Since the begin­ning of Russia’s ” Three-Day War, ” Ukraine has suc­ceed­ed in halt­ing the invaders’ advance, turn­ing the tide, and lib­er­at­ing sig­nif­i­cant areas from tem­po­rary Russ­ian mil­i­tary con­trol. Ukrain­ian forces have also  severe­ly dam­aged Russ­ian mil­i­tary facil­i­ties .

Ukraine’s resilience in the face of over­whelm­ing aggres­sion showed us the true mean­ing of resilience. West­ern mil­i­tary sup­port for Ukraine makes a dif­fer­ence every day on the bat­tle­field, help­ing Ukraine  uphold its right to self-defense., which is enshrined in the Char­ter of the Unit­ed Nations.

Russ­ian offers for cease­fires or peace nego­ti­a­tions are not sin­cere,  but mere PR gags. On clos­er exam­i­na­tion, they reveal Russia’s impe­ri­al­ist demands that Ukraine sur­ren­der and give up more of its ter­ri­to­ry and sov­er­eign­ty.

The true path to peace is the com­plete with­draw­al of Russ­ian armed forces behind Ukraine’s inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized bor­ders and a com­plete renun­ci­a­tion of Russia’s aggres­sive poli­cies. Rus­sia launched  an unpro­voked war  in Europe, bla­tant­ly dis­re­gard­ing inter­na­tion­al law, espe­cial­ly the UN Char­ter. Peace can­not be achieved by allow­ing an unarmed Ukraine to con­front a high­ly mil­i­ta­rized Rus­sia that denies its sov­er­eign­ty and bla­tant­ly advo­cates  geno­cide. calls.

Regard­ing glob­al sup­port, we would like to note that around 40 coun­tries, includ­ing most West­ern coun­tries, con­tin­ue to pro­vide mil­i­tary, human­i­tar­i­an and finan­cial  sup­port to Ukraine. , includ­ing Chi­na. Sev­er­al inter­na­tion­al human rights groups, includ­ing Human Rights Watch,  recent­ly pub­lished  a report call­ing for Putin and oth­er senior Russ­ian offi­cials to be inves­ti­gat­ed for war crimes relat­ed to the Russ­ian attack on the Ukrain­ian city of Mar­i­upol. And the Unit­ed Nations Gen­er­al Assem­bly   over­whelm­ing­ly demand­ed that Rus­sia with­draw all its armed forces from Ukrain­ian ter­ri­to­ry.

Rus­sia, on the oth­er hand, has the fol­low­ing sol­id allies: Belarus, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic People’s Repub­lic of North Korea, Eritrea and Syr­ia.

Russia is fighting a holy war

Rus­sia is fight­ing a holy war against god­less Ukraine to pro­tect tra­di­tion­al val­ues. Rus­sia is the true pro­tec­tor of Chris­tian­i­ty and absolute­ly pious. Ukraine was sub­ju­gat­ed by the god­less pagans of the Kyiv regime and is fun­da­men­tal­ly evil.

Rus­sia reg­u­lar­ly refers to  a holy war against Satan him­self to jus­ti­fy its war against Ukraine. To explain Russia’s lack of progress on the bat­tle­field, the Krem­lin claimed in the first weeks and months of the war that Ukraine had entered into an  unholy alliance  with the forces of Hades.

Pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion experts, notably  Vladimir Solovy­ov , fre­quent­ly use this dis­in­for­ma­tion nar­ra­tive in con­junc­tion with base­less accu­sa­tions against Ukraine and the West, which sup­pos­ed­ly  seek to destroy the Ortho­dox Church . This manip­u­la­tion tac­tic gained momen­tum in 2019, when the Ortho­dox Church of Ukraine achieved  inde­pen­dent church sta­tus  , and again in Novem­ber 2022, when the Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment  announced(opens in a new tab) that it would draft a law ban­ning church­es affil­i­at­ed with Rus­sia.

The demo­niza­tion of Ukraine and its West­ern back­ers as god­less hea­thens goes hand in hand with pro-Krem­lin dis­in­for­ma­tion that the West wants to destroy “ tra­di­tion­al val­ues ” while Rus­sia  pro­tects them.This dis­in­for­ma­tion nar­ra­tive about pro­tect­ing  threat­ened val­ues is rid­dled with  dis­in­for­ma­tion about the LGBTIQ+ com­mu­ni­tywhich often   cross­es the line into direct incite­ment .

Russia is fighting against Western imperialism

Rus­sia is fight­ing against West­ern impe­ri­al­ism and neo-colo­nial­ism in Ukraine and for a mul­ti­po­lar world order in which coun­tries do not inter­fere in the inter­nal affairs of oth­ers.

The Krem­lin regime has long sought to por­tray itself pub­licly as anti-impe­ri­al­ist and anti-colo­nial­ist. How­ev­er, Russia’s bru­tal war of aggres­sion against Ukraine laid bare its own  impe­ri­al­ist and colo­nial­ist ambi­tions. open to its neigh­bors in Europe, the Cau­ca­sus and Asia.

By start­ing a war in east­ern Ukraine in 2014, ille­gal­ly annex­ing Crimea in the same year and launch­ing a full-scale inva­sion in 2022, Rus­sia has  gross­ly vio­lat­ed inter­na­tion­al law and the UN Char­ter and threat­ens world peace and glob­al secu­ri­ty and sta­bil­i­ty.

On 2 March 2022, the Unit­ed Nations Gen­er­al Assem­bly over­whelm­ing­ly adopt­ed a res­o­lu­tion  reject­ing the Russ­ian Federation’s bru­tal inva­sion of Ukraine and demand­ed that Rus­sia imme­di­ate­ly with­draw its armed forces and com­ply with inter­na­tion­al law.

In Octo­ber 2022, the UN Gen­er­al Assem­bly vot­ed over­whelm­ing­ly to  con­demn Russia’s attemptsto annex four tem­porar­i­ly occu­pied ter­ri­to­ries in Ukraine after sham ref­er­en­dums.

The world­wide con­dem­na­tion of Russia’s mil­i­tary aggres­sion against a peace­ful neigh­bor shows that Rus­sia is alone and iso­lat­ed.

Ukraine is an evil Nazi state

Ukraine is an evil Nazi state ruled by Nazi lead­ers. Thus, its very exis­tence threat­ens Rus­sia. Rus­sia is fight­ing to pre­serve his­to­ry. All of Europe sup­port­ed Nazi Germany’s inva­sion of the Sovi­et Union, just as Europe sup­ports Nazi Ukraine today. Rus­sia is con­tin­u­ing the Great Patri­ot­ic War in Ukraine to rid the world of Nazism.

Per­haps the most fun­da­men­tal myth of Russ­ian aggres­sion against Ukraine is the accu­sa­tion that Ukraine, Ukraini­ans and Ukraini­an­ness  are some­how Nazi-likeThe accu­sa­tion has always been absurd and would be a good laugh if the Kremlin’s inten­tion in act­ing on it weren’t so  mur­der­ous  . With­out this slan­der, the Russ­ian lead­er­ship could not jus­ti­fy its aggres­sion against Ukraine. That’s why they repeat it  over  and  over again. 

But this myth not only jus­ti­fies Russia’s ille­gal inva­sion. It also serves as the basis for Russia’s  intend­ed geno­cide  against the Ukrain­ian lan­guage, Ukrain­ian cul­ture, the Ukrain­ian state, and the Ukrain­ian peo­ple, as  we pre­vi­ous­ly report­ed.In the imag­i­na­tion of rad­i­cal Russ­ian nation­al­ists, Ukraine is an ” anti-Rus­sia ‚” oppos­ing Rus­sia like anti­mat­ter against mat­ter, and its very exis­tence is a mor­tal dan­ger. The Krem­lin now labels any­one who oppos­es its aggres­sion against Ukraine—including  Cana­da —as a “Nazi . ”

We have been fol­low­ing the Kremlin’s use of the “Nazi bogey­man” nar­ra­tive  for years . The Krem­lin has used this use­ful  dis­in­for­ma­tion theme used through­out the war to dehu­man­ize and den­i­grate Ukraini­ans. Putin’s por­tray­al of  Rus­sia as a mod­ern tamer of Nation­al Social­ism is a clas­sic exam­ple of  pro­jec­tion  – a method used by the Krem­lin to shift the blame for its own destruc­tive actions onto oth­ers.

The  accu­sa­tions that all of Europe sup­port­ed Nazi Germany’s inva­sion of the Sovi­et Union are beyond  bizarre . They turn his­to­ry  on its head .In fact, in 1942, the anti-Hitler coali­tion com­prised  26 states  , as well as the gov­ern­ments-in-exile of occu­pied Euro­pean coun­tries. Russia’s invo­ca­tion of the fight against Nazism to trig­ger a strong psy­cho­log­i­cal or emo­tion­al reac­tion is not only manip­u­la­tive but sim­ply ridicu­lous, espe­cial­ly giv­en the Kremlin’s turn to open  anti-Semit­ic rhetoric..

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