DISINFO: Kyiv, after the coup, became hostile and keeps on evading talks and agreements
SUMMARY
After the state coup in Ukraine in 2014, Ukraine lost its independence. All major decisions are made outside Ukraine, .., dictated by Western countries and primarily by the United States of America.
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After 2014, Ukraine's new government started adopting various laws, these laws tried to prevent us from speaking in our mother tongue .. they began to deprive us of our cultural values, they began depriving us of our awareness and the identity that we lived and adhered to, as well as our relationship with the Great Patriotic War, World War II.
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But the Ukrainian army used all weapons against us, then they moved to commit war crimes against us and they began to use warplanes against us and they started bombing us with tanks and heavy cannons, and we were obliged to defend ourselves and our land and this is what happened.
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Instead of dialogue, they bombed us with various weapons, and after the tension and conflict continued to their climax and after hundreds and thousands died, the Minsk agreements appeared to settle the conflict, but unfortunately, the Ukrainian side is constantly violating it and does not want to implement the obligations that it took upon itself, and even tries to evade them. We hear that they are trying to escape from implementing the Minsk agreements and leaving them, despite the fact that the agreements are supported by the UN Security Council, and Ukraine does not take them into account.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation messages about eastern Ukraine, claiming that the foundation of the DPR came as a response to the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv, often painted as a coup d'état and alleging that Ukraine is under external control, while accusing Kyiv of non-adherence to the 2014 Minsk Agreements and its discrimination against Russian speakers.
What happened in the Donbas area is a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces and far away from being an internal conflict.
The involvement of Russian personnel and equipment in the creation of the DPR and LPR has been well documented already for years. The destabilisation of eastern Ukraine and the illegal annexation of Crimea has been condemned by the Council of the European Union and led to restrictive measures since 2014.
Moreover, there was no coup d'etat in Ukraine. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was an organic reaction by numerous parts of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. See the full debunk of this disinformation claim.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. Ukraine is not controlled by the US or any other foreign government or organisation. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world. The EU is among the strongest advocates of Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity.
It is also not true that Ukraine does not intend to settle the conflict in Donbas peacefully. The implementation of the Minsk agreements remains one of the key priorities of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In a recent address, he mentioned that Ukraine will adhere to all agreements aimed at establishing peace in Donbas.
The claim about Ukraine discriminating against the Russian language has been shaped since the Ukrainian Law on ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language has been passed in 2019 and came into force on 16 January 2021. The law does not discriminate against any languages. Russian, as well as other languages, can be used in private communication and religious ceremonies, book publishing, the press, including radio and television, education and the service sector. The law even allows the use of other languages in the healthcare system and in law enforcement.
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