DISINFO: Kursk attack plan was developed by top US officials
SUMMARY
The Kyiv regime carried out a terrorist attack in the Kursk region with the support of the West. The plan of the attack on the Kursk region was developed by the American top brass.
RESPONSE
No evidence is provided to back this claim.
There is nothing indicating that any external actor took part in the preparation of Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk. On the contrary, circumstantial evidence and public statements by US and other Western officials point that even Ukraine’s closest partners did not have knowledge of the operation beforehand. “It’s not unusual for the Ukrainians not to notify us of their exact tactics before – before they execute them. This is a war that they – they are conducting. We provide them with equipment, we provide them with advice, but when it comes to the kind of day-by-day tactics that they carry out, the day-by-day strikes that they take, sometimes we’re in communication about them; sometimes we’re not”, Matthew Miller, the spokesperson for the US Department of State said during a press briefing.
Ukraine’s offensive in Kursk is not a terrorist attack. Ukraine is acting in its self-defence under the UN Charter, Article 51, which includes the right to strike military targets in Russia involved in Moscow's campaign and attacking Russian forces inside Ukraine including Russian military bases in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories such as the Donbas, Crimea and other regions belonging to Ukraine.
The ultimate goal of this disinformation story is to advance a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying Ukraine’s defence as a proxy war against Russia, aiming to deflect Moscow’s responsibility for its aggression against its neighbour. This narrative has gained traction in face of Russia’s setbacks in Kursk. See other examples in our database, such as claims that the operation in the Kursk region was planned and sanctioned by the US, that the US, NATO and UK are involved in the attack on the Kursk region, that NATO is directly supervising Ukraine's advance into Kursk, that the Kursk incursion was conceived by the same people who blew up the Nord Stream, or that the Kursk incursion was pushed for by Washington so democrats can win elections.