DISINFO: Ukraine is anti-Russian bridgehead
SUMMARY
The West has assigned Ukraine to the role of an anti-Russian bridgehead. In actual fact, the country has lost its independence and become a US battering ram against the Russian Federation.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets justifying the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine.
In reality, the West is providing assistance to Ukraine with the aim of helping it repel the Russian invasion. Neither the West nor Ukraine have any hostile intentions towards Russia. They do not want to invade it or occupy any of its territories.
The West supports Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter Article 51, to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
Some allies are supporting Ukraine with weapons to help it uphold its right for self-defence. Western instructors train Ukrainian soldiers how to use modern weaponry and NATO officials have frequent contacts with Ukrainian counterparts, but there are no NATO troops fighting on the front. The US, the EU and NATO condemn in the strongest possible terms Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is entirely unjustified and unprovoked.
See similar cases that claiming that Russia is at war with NATO and the Pentagon and only the soldiers are Ukrainians; that NATO is at war with Russia with the hands of Ukrainians; that NATO was turning Ukraine into an enemy of Russia; that NATO has no interest in peace in Ukraine; and that the West is using Ukrainians to fight Russia in Ukraine.