DISINFO: US Embassy controls decisions taken in Ukraine
SUMMARY
Where did you get the idea that right now, the decisions are not being made at the same embassy [US]? The only difference is that other people make them.
RESPONSE
No evidence is given. Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine, which is often claimed to be under external control from the US or the EU. Ukraine is a sovereign state. The US does not control Ukraine. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by most of the free world, confirmed by the resolutions of the United Nations, but violated by Russia. The relations between the US and Ukraine are bilateral relations between two independent countries. The US recognised Ukraine as an independent state on 25 December 1991. Since then, Washington has been working closely with Ukraine, directing its assistance to support the democratic development of the country and helping Ukraine to withstand Russian aggression. U.S. policy has since been centred on realising and strengthening a stable, democratic, prosperous, and free Ukraine more closely integrated into Europe and Euro-Atlantic structures. See previous disinformation narratives alleging that the US has turned Ukraine into a puppet, that Ukraine is under external control, that the US and EU control Ukraine or that the US State Department and US Embassy in Ukraine represent a system of “Gauleiter’s”.