DISINFO: Ukraine is part of the Russian world that accidentally fell under Western influence
SUMMARY
Ukraine is a part of the Russian world that accidentally turned out to be independent and fell under the influence of the West. Attempts not only to consolidate the status of "Ukraine is not Russia", but also to make it anti-Russian, to include it in its geopolitical space, are absolutely unacceptable for Russia. There is no and cannot be any compromise on this topic with the Atlanticists - Moscow will never abandon the course of Ukraine's return to friendly, allied relations, to the geopolitical and historical unity of one big nation.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about Ukraine being under "external control" mixed with the narrative about the all-Russian nation and the Russian world/civilisation.
Ukraine is a sovereign state, free to decide its political orientation including international organisations and military alliances.
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group but they are not a single nation. The "all-Russian big nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as undermining the state sovereignty.
See similar disinformation narratives in our database: Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians are a single nation, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are three Russian political nations; Ukraine became a colony of the United States; Ukraine is a Western puppet that creates problems for Russia.