DISINFO: EU sponsors Kyiv mafia to fight against Russia
SUMMARY
A kind of mafia is being sponsored which tries to weaken the Russian camp which is the side of Good against Evil today. People should think for themselves instead of sticking to stereotypes. Since 18 months, who's been telling the truth, explains what they are doing, what is going to happen, why they are doing it?
And who is saying the opposite? The more time passes, the more it is realised that Western elites sum up lies, madness, deaths, manipulation, that cause a systemic crisis. Ukraine is being used as a kind of hijacking for the madness of Western leaders.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin narrative that Russian expansionism is on the side of good and that Kyiv is evil, crime-ridden and corrupt with western elites causing a systemic crisis in Europe by choosing the wrong side and manipulating opinion through propaganda.
Since 2014, war in Ukraine was provoked by the Kremlin’s efforts and Ukraine is fighting to defend its sovereign integrity. Since March 2014, the EU has progressively imposed restrictive measures on Russia in response to
1. Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea
2. Russia’s war of aggression against Ukrain
3. the illegal annexation of Ukraine's Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions
The claim that the Russian information environment is truthful in comparison to the Western information space is propaganda and very far from reality. Since eight years, EUvsDisinfo has been exposing and analysing disinformation from Russian state sponsored media.
Depicting Russia as the land of truth and good, while the West is a Pandora's box of lies and propaganda has more to do with beliefs and Manichaeism than facts.
On February 24, 2022 Putin launched an invasion of Ukraine, which he called a special military operation under the pretext of the “demilitarisation and denazification” of Ukraine.
On March 2, 2022 the UN General Assembly by an overwhelming majority rejected the Russian Federation's brutal invasion of Ukraine and demanded that Russia immediately withdraw its forces and abide by international law.
Russia has been violating Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity by acts of armed aggression since 2014.
Pro-Kremlin media have been trying to portray Ukraine as the most corrupt country in the world on numerous occasions in the past see here; here; and here. Corruption and organised crime in Ukraine are often used by pro-Kremlin voices to justify Russian aggression. Ukraine's anticorruption initiatives undermine one of the core pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives on Ukraine as the most corrupt country in the world.
More closer to home, as early as 2002, Alexander Litvinenko used the term mafia state to describe the Kremlin’s structure. Justice departments of different countries, such as Spain or Argentina, have clearly established the narrow links between organised crime and the state structure of Russia.
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