DISINFO: The US organised a coup in 2014 in Kyiv and now wants Ukraine to start a war against Russia
SUMMARY
Ukraine is now the puppet of the United States. Who organised the coup d'état in 2014? The Western powers and in particular Washington. Washington wants a crisis on the Russian border. What are the Americans doing today by going to inspect the Ukrainian army? Colonel Brittany Stewart, the military attaché in Ukraine will inspect the Ukrainian army on the front line wearing a uniform with a "Ukraine or death" badge on it.
The Americans are sending warships, they are pushing Ukraine towards war because today Ukraine is in a catastrophic, dire economic situation since that Maidan revolution. Poroshenko and Zelenskyy's promises are not there. Ukrainian society is suffering for the good reason. The reason behind the coup d'état is that the Americans want tension with Russia, they want to weaken Russia. They want to keep Russia away. Why would they do that? To damage the economic relations between Russia and the EU and in particular to stop the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
RESPONSE
Recurrent narrative on the role of the US in 2014 events in Ukraine and the growing tensions on the Ukraine-Russia border in 2021. The explanation for these often used by pro-Kremlin media is that the West, or in this case the US, want to weaken Russia.
In 2014, there was no coup, nor a western orchestrated protest in Ukraine. The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan", or "Euromaidan" – were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych's last-minute U-turn when, after seven years of negotiation, he refused to sign the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and halted progress towards Ukraine's closer relationship with the EU due to Russian pressure. It cannot be labelled as a coup.
The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence.
Ukraine's government has changed its relations toward Russia after the latter annexed illegally Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, following the covert invasion of “little green men".
The EU is among the strongest advocates of Ukraine's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity. The EU and the US work closely with Ukraine and support the democratic development of Ukraine in accordance with the UN Charter’s principles of non-interference into internal affairs and respect towards territorial integrity and political independence.
It is true that the United States sees the Nord Stream 2 pipeline as a Russian geopolitical project intended to divide Europe and weaken European energy security. However, there is no basis to claim that the US seeks to ignite war in Ukraine to stop it.
On contrary, this disinformation message seeks to distract attention from a renewed build up of Russian armed forces along the Ukrainian borders in April 2021. Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity continue to be violated by acts of aggression by Russian armed forces.
The false accusation that the US military attaché in Ukraine, Colonel Brittany Stewart, was seen wearing a “death’s head” insignia in April 2021 originates from the Kremlin-controlled media Sputnik. The insignia the military attaché is seen wearing on the photo is that of Ukraine’s 72nd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, the military unit on the frontline in Donbas which the attaché visited as a sign of support to Ukraine. The history of the patch goes back to the Black Zaporozhians, a cavalry regiment from the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic (1917-1921) whom the 72nd Mechanized Brigade was honorarily named after in 2017 by presidential decree.
See earlier disinformation message alleging that the US is ready to start a war to stop Nord Stream 2.