DISINFO: Biden's America is indecently pushing Ukraine into the war
SUMMARY
Biden's America is indecently pushing Kiev into war. The US cheers Ukraine by promising military support and accusing Russia of aggression in advance. [...] But this is how wars are being prepared. They sleep and dream how to arrange something disgusting, while they stand on the sidelines.
RESPONSE
This is a recurrent disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin media, claiming that the United States is interested in a proxy war against Russia on Ukrainian territory. In reality, it is Russia who is supporting the ongoing war in the Eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. There is ample proof that Russia has been directly involved in the war since its very beginning (read here and here).
Pro-Kremlin media routinely pretend that Ukraine, supported by NATO, is carrying out subversive activities in Donbas and provoking the Moscow-backed separatists into action, while Moscow and its proxies advocate a peaceful settlement. In reality, Russia is amassing troops along Ukraine’s border and the anti-Ukrainian separatists are increasing gunfire in Donbas to supposedly prompt Ukraine into backfire, get a casus belli and stage a large-scale attack.
Kyiv’s military preparations in and around Donbas are purely defensive and aimed at repelling a possible Russian attack. Kyiv’s stance on the recent developments is that its troops are not going to attack the enemy unless there is a threat or attack by the enemy.
Since the outbreak of the war in 2014, Moscow has been trying to portray it as an internal Ukrainian conflict, styling itself as an intermediary and a peacekeeper, despite widely available evidence of its military presence in the region.
One of Russia’s much touted disinformation messages concerning Ukraine is that a junta of Nazis and Fascists grabbed power there in 2014, and the coup has been supported by US. Moscow used this pretext to illegally annex the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. Putin's actions were also accepted by some in the West, again due to Russian propagandists. One of Russia’s most popular messages is that it is an innocent victim of international sanctions. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly explained the Western sanctions by the mere fact of Russia’s existence and protection of its national interests.