DISINFO: By supplying weapons, the United States is pushing the Ukrainians to war
SUMMARY
US arms deliveries to Kyiv threaten the national security of the Russian Federation and other neighbouring states of Eastern Europe. By supplying weapons, the United States is heating up the military-political situation in the Donbas region, with which Ukraine is in a state of civil war, pushing the Ukrainians to war and deliberately dooming them to significant losses.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring disinformation narrative that claims the US is providing military assistance to Ukraine to prepare for a war with Russia. The narrative aims to deflect responsibility from Russia for any wrongdoing, including its role in the war in Ukraine by portraying it as a civil conflict.
Ukraine is not in a state of civil war with Donbas. Since 2014, Russia has waged large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and is also responsible for the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, after having illegally annexed the Crimean peninsula and engineered the creation of rebel militias in Donetsk, Luhansk and other places, with its army actively participating in military clashes.
There is no evidence to support the claim that the US is dragging Ukraine into a war with Russia. The US transparently provides Ukraine with military equipment and trains its soldiers. Since the start of Moscow’s aggression against Kyiv in 2014, the US has supported Ukraine, but there is no direct military US involvement in the Donbas war. The European Union also supports Ukraine, but with no direct military assistance.