DISINFO: The West is destroying Ukrainian statehood and Ukrainian military forces

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DISINFO: The West is destroying Ukrainian statehood and Ukrainian military forces

SUMMARY

The Russian military in Ukraine is greatly superior in aviation, artillery, and armoured vehicles over Ukraine. However, the NATO military management system sends hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers, with the use of psychotropic substances, to death on a daily basis. Ukrainian military leadership is following the NATO orders to stop Russian advance at all cost. The US supports a proxy war against Russia and is likely to pledge more financial support to the Ukrainian military. This will guarantee the elimination of additional tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and possibly the destruction of Ukrainian statehood as well.

RESPONSE

Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Western countries are fighting a proxy-war against Russia in Ukraine. This narrative aims to frame Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine as a confrontation with a russophobic and belligerent NATO.

The article also questions the motivation of the Ukrainian military to defend their country and to diminish the military successes of the Ukrainian military by groundlessly claiming that the lives of Ukrainian soldiers are sacrificed without a good purpose and that they fight thanks to ‘psychotropic substances’ on NATO orders.

Contrary to what this disinformation story claims, the Ukrainian state is under attack by Russia, while the US and Western countries are providing support to Ukraine. Western nations did everything they could to prevent the war and have only been reacting to Russia’s full invasion. Some NATO member states provide Ukraine with military assistance to help Ukraine to defend itself from Russia’s attack, but they are not involved in direct fighting. Ukraine receives weapons with the sole aim of restoring its territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. In several Western countries instructors train Ukrainian soldiers on how to use modern weapons and NATO officials have frequent political contacts with Ukrainian counterparts, but there are no NATO troops fighting on the front.

See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that the West is lying when it claims that Russia “invaded” and “attacked” Ukraine, that Russia’s special operation prevented Ukraine’s attack, that Russia’s special operation in Ukraine is due to NATO’s persistent expansion, or that the US and the West are fighting a hybrid war against Russia in Ukraine.

Disclaimer

Cases in the EUvsDisinfo database focus on messages in the international information space that are identified as providing a partial, distorted, or false depiction of reality and spread key pro-Kremlin messages. This does not necessarily imply, however, that a given outlet is linked to the Kremlin or editorially pro-Kremlin, or that it has intentionally sought to disinform. EUvsDisinfo publications do not represent an official EU position, as the information and opinions expressed are based on media reporting and analysis of the East Stratcom Task Force.

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