DISINFO: Looking to annihilate Russia, Ukraine and NATO declared senseless war against multipolarity
SUMMARY
In its quest to annihilate everything Russian, Ukraine, with NATO’s support, declared a war against multipolarity, peace and humankind. The war in Ukraine is senseless.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation about destabilising Russia and Russia's war in Ukraine as a proxy war against the Russian Federation.
Russia is the only responsible for the war in Ukraine. Russia initiated the conflict in 2014 with its illegal annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the sponsor of separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, to the point of sending Russian troops to back them in the battlefield. This aggression escalated in 2022 when Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Both before and after the invasion, Russia inundated the information space with baseless pro-Kremlin narratives justifying the attack “on defensive grounds”.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that Kyiv started the war in Donbas back in 2014, that the crisis in Ukraine was caused by anti-Russian policy of the West, that NATO bases in Ukraine would be an existential threat to Russia, that in the Ukrainian conflict, Russia is the victim and NATO the aggressor, or that the US inadvertently legitimised Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.