DISINFO: Unscrupulous NATO members used the alliance to sabotage Ukraine
SUMMARY
NATO members are unscrupulous. At first they used the alliance and sabotaged Ukraine, which lost its full sovereignty, and today they remember that they have some legal restrictions.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about the West's involvement in Ukraine, depicting the 2013-14 revolution and its aftermath as a Western-sponsored coup d'état. The objective of this claim is to lay responsibility for the ensuing Russian aggression in Ukraine on the US and EU, or in this case the NATO. The claim was neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.
The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was not provoked externally, rather, it was a reaction from broad segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013, after pressure from Russia.
The West did not interfere in Ukraine in 2014 or after. Ukraine is a sovereign state. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world, including the EU. The EU and the US, which constitute the majority of NATO members, work closely with Ukraine and support its democratic development in accordance with the UN Charter’s principles of non-interference into internal affairs and respect towards territorial integrity and political independence.
See similar disinformation claims in our database that there was a coup by nationalist extremists and fascists in Ukraine sponsored by US; that in 2014, the US and EU-backed Maidan Putsch took place in Ukraine; that EU supported anti-constitutional and anti-Russian coup d’etat in Ukraine; that the Ukrainian revolution was well-planned from abroad and that Euromaidan was an illegal armed coup.