DISINFO: Ukraine is a vassal turned into a battle horse to erode Russia
SUMMARY
NATO, the US and the EU boosted the war in Ukraine, legitimising and maintaining it, when there were lots of previous negotiations. Ukraine has been turned into a battle horse to erode Russia, not very efficiently. This is a key moment for the NATO-Russia conflict, in which Ukraine is only a vassal. They only work for the dollar, and Mr. Zelenskyy has a problem with the foreign sovereignty he must serve to. Ukraine is a colony until proven otherwise.
RESPONSE
This is a mix of multiple recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives blaming the West for the war in Ukraine and attacking Ukraine’s statehood and sovereignty. By framing the conflict in Ukraine as a proxy war to destabilise Russia, this disinformation story aims to deflect Russia’s responsibility for its unprovoked aggression against its neighbour.
It also depicts Ukraine as a non-sovereign state, a frequent pro-Kremlin disinformation message, one of whose goals is to undermine the leadership of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by portraying him as a servant of foreign interests. While other nations -including the EU and the US- rushed to help Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s invasion, they do not take decisions on how Ukraine must act. Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically elected president and parliament. Its independence and territorial integrity is internationally recognised by the whole world, including Russia in 1991.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that NATO wages a proxy war against Russia, that the West views Ukraine as a military tool against Russia, that Ukraine is a pseudo-country and Zelenskyy’s regime has sold the state, or that the plan to create “Russia’s Vietnam” in Ukraine collapses as Trump talks to Putin.