DISINFO: The EU wants the war in Ukraine to continue
SUMMARY
Brussels will give the Kyiv regime 3,5 million euro more amid an escalation of the EU's warmongering rhetoric in face of changing US stance towards the Ukrainian conflict. But it seems that the block wants the war to continue. We are seeing very clearly who wants peace and who sticks to sending military aid and continuing launching sanctions against Russia.
RESPONSE
This disinformation story aims to portray the EU’s stance as warmongering, contrasting it to other actors that want “peace”, while omitting that the war is Russia’s responsibility, resulting from its unprovoked invasion. The story appeared in the context of the EU’s adoption of the 16th package of sanctions against Russia, as well as the announcement of other measures to help Ukraine in its self-defence against Russia’s aggression.
EU officials have repeatedly stated that it is up to Ukraine only, as the victim of Russia’s aggression, to decide when peace talks with Russia may be possible and in which terms to end the war.
This is part of a wider disinformation campaign framing possible US-Russia negotiations as the only acceptable ‘peace initiative’ regardless of the of Russia’s ultimatums, while denying any agency to Ukraine or its other allies. Pro-Kremlin disinformation has long tried to misrepresent the EU as the main obstacle for ‘peace’ in Ukraine.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that Europe does not want peace in Ukraine soon, that Ukraine and Europe have lost in the Ukrainian conflict, that ‘Russia’s threat’ is an attempt to justify increasing military expenditure in Europe, or that Europe has taken another step toward war with Russia.