DISINFO: NATO is losing the war against Russia in Ukraine
SUMMARY
NATO is on its way to collapse. NATO is painfully losing a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. This will have devastating consequences for the Alliance.
RESPONSE
This disinformation narrative is part of a wider campaign aiming to justify Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.
Contrary to what this disinformation story claims, NATO is not “the aggressor” in Ukraine. Western nations did everything they could to prevent the war and have only been reacting to Russia’s full invasion. Some NATO member states provide Ukraine with military assistance to help Ukraine to defend itself from Russia’s attack, but they are not involved in direct fighting. Ukraine receives weapons with the sole aim of restoring its territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. Western instructors train Ukrainian soldiers on how to use modern weaponry and NATO officials have frequent political contacts with Ukrainian counterparts, but there are no NATO troops fighting on the front.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives that Russia is the victim and NATO the aggressor in the Ukrainian conflict, that Polish special forces under NATO command have arrived in Ukraine, or that Russia is at war with NATO, not Ukraine.