DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: almaghribtoday.net ( archive, original ) , albawabhnews.com ( archive, original ) , arabic.rt.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , bwabtk.com ( archive, original ) , roayahnews.com ( archive, original ) , lomazoma.com ( archive, original ) , nafeza2world.com ( archive, original ) , kol-masr.com ( archive, original ) , Misr Alan ( archive, original ) , bwabtk.com ( archive, original ) , akhbarak.net ( archive, original ) , bawabaa.org ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , akher.news ( archive, original ) , eshraag.com ( archive, original ) , alsiasi.com ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , belbalady.net ( archive, original ) , akher.news ( archive, original ) , ru4arab.ru ( archive, original ) , rtarab.com ( archive, original ) , newsformy.com ( archive, original ) , syriafriends.net ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: April 20, 2021
- Article language(s): Arabic
- Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine, Russia
AI translations:
DISINFO: Donbas witnessed military confrontations after the coup in Kyiv
SUMMARY
Since April 2015, the Donbas region in southeastern Ukraine has witnessed military confrontations between government forces and volunteering factions loyal to it from one side, and self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics, which declared their independence from Kyiv in the aftermath of the Ukrainian coup in February 2014.
RESPONSE
Recurring disinformation message about eastern Ukraine, claiming that the aggression came as a response to the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv, often painted as a coup d'état, while claiming that local dwellers resisted alone without Russian military support and founded the DPR and LPR.
There was no coup d'état in Ukraine in 2014. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction from several segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013, after pressure from Russia. See the full debunk: The Western-backed coup in Ukraine has torn the country asunder.
Ukraine is not at war with millions of people from Donetsk and Luhansk as pro-Kremlin disinformation often likes to present it. The aim of these messages is to present the situation in Eastern Ukraine as an internal conflict, ignoring irrefutable evidence of direct Russian military involvement in the region.
The EU stated in July 2014 that "arms and fighters continue flowing into Ukraine from the Russian Federation", while NATO leaders condemned in the strongest terms Russia’s military intervention and demanded Russia to stop fomenting tension along and across the Ukrainian border. In view of Russia's actions destabilising eastern Ukraine, the EU announced a first package of significant economic sanctions targeting cooperation and exchanges with Russia on 29 July 2014. See here an overview of EU restrictive measures in response to the crisis in Ukraine.
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