DISINFO: Russian media never published a disrespectful word about the Ukrainian people
SUMMARY
It was the West who spoke about this, Western politicians, that Russia planned to destroy Ukraine, destroy the Ukrainian people, take Kyiv in three days. On February 24, the President of the Russian Federation set a completely different task. It was about protecting the LNR and the DNR. There was no mention of the destruction of Ukraine as a state. Moreover, no words of disrespect for the Ukrainian people have ever been expressed anywhere in any article. This never happened at all. But the West invents fairy tales and develops them on its own.
RESPONSE
On February 24, 2022 Russia started a "denazification and demilitarization" operation in Ukraine by bombing Kyiv and other cities of Ukraine.
One of the articles of RIA Novosti from 3 April 2022 is called "What Russia has to do with Ukraine". It reads: "We already wrote about the inevitability of the denazification of Ukraine. Nazi, Bandera Ukraine, the enemy of Russia and the West's tool for the destruction of Russia, we do not need it anymore. Today, the issue of denazification has moved into a practical plane. Denazification is necessary when a significant part of the people - most likely the majority - has been mastered and drawn into the Nazi regime in its politics. That is, when the hypothesis "the people are good - the government is bad" does not work".
The article also proposed to liquidate the Armed Forces of Ukraine, create new authorities and police, withdraw history books, erect new monuments, as well as “include a set of anti-fascist and denazification norms in the constitutions of the new people’s republics” and create “denazification bodies” for 25 years.
In December 2022, the French media regulator Arcom cancelled the French satellite broadcaster Eutelsat's right to rebroadcast Russian State TV Channels, concluding that Rossiya 1, Perviy Kanal et NTV systematically called for hatred towards Ukrainians.
Some of the pro-Kremlin media openly spoke about "deukranisation".
The whole concept of Ukraine's denazification was invented by the pro-Kremlin media to justify the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Among other methods, fabricated pictures were used to advance the disinformation narrative of Nazi rule in Ukraine.
Ukrainian statehood is also regularly mocked by pro-Kremlin media. See for example Ukraine is not a failed State, Ukraine as State does not exist at all.
To read more about continuous barrage of Kremlin disinformation about Ukraine, and Ukrainians, please see our Ukraine section.