DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: abrag.akwadon.com ( archive, original ) , akhbarak.net ( archive, original ) , albidda.net ( archive, original ) , alhemyarianews.com ( archive, original ) , arabic.rt.com ( archive, original ) , bald-news.com ( archive, original ) , bcarabic.com ( archive, original ) , dmcnews.org ( archive, original ) , eltakrer.com ( archive, original ) , emeknes.com ( archive, original ) , headtopics.com ( archive, original ) , kachaf.com ( archive, original ) , kol-masr.com ( archive, original ) , nabd.com ( archive, original ) , albraq-news.com ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: August 28, 2020
- Countries / regions discussed: France, Poland, Germany, Belarus, Ukraine
AI translations:
DISINFO: A failed mediation in Ukraine led to a bloody coup
SUMMARY
Any pressure on the issue of mediation in Belarus brings back to mind the agreement of February 21, 2014, between the government and the opposition in Ukraine, when mediators from Germany, France and Poland failed to prevent the implementation of a bloody coup scenario in Kyiv and forgot their pledges.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative depicting the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d’état. The onset of the Euromaidan protests was a spontaneous and endogenous reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden withdrawal from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. See the full debunk of this disinformation claim here. The Agreement on the settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine is the document signed on 21 February 2014 by then-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the leaders of the parliamentary opposition under the mediation of the European Union and the Russian Federation. On 26 February 2014, the Russian Federation deployed members of its armed forces to gain control over parts of the Ukrainian territory in Crimea without the consent of the Ukrainian Government, in which the UNGA confirmed its non-recognition of the illegal annexation. Moving on, Lithuania, Poland and Latvia recently said they were ready to mediate between the Belarusian government and the opposition after Sunday’s, 9 August, presidential election prompted bloody street protests. The EU continues a step-by-step approach in its engagement with Belarus, supporting its civil society and victims of repression. The protests in Belarus erupted to contest the results of the presidential election in Belarus on the 9 August, which are considered fraudulent by a large part of Belarusian society. Read a similar case claiming that The West organised the Maidan coup to make Ukraine an anti-Russian state, or that the West dreams of tearing Belarus apart from Russia and to organise a Ukraine-like scenario, and that pro-Western Belarusian opposition prepares a revolution with the assistance of armed Ukrainian nationalists.