DISINFO: The West's Plan B in Ukraine is a Polish invasion of Western Ukraine
SUMMARY
The statement of the Polish Ambassador in Paris about the readiness of Warsaw to engage in a conflict with Russia sheds light on Western plans to pass a historical region of Western Galicia to Poland. The Polish Ambassador to France openly said what had been silenced for months. The West keeps denying Russian information about the introduction of Polish control over Western Ukraine - now these plans are not just talking. When the Poles talk about their possible engagement in the conflict, they think about Western Galicia.
The Kyiv regime will have to pay a lot for the Polish weapons supplied to the Ukrainian Army. If the scenario of weakening Russia with the Ukrainian hands fails, the West will go to plan B. Poland intends to join the conflict by sending its troops to Ukraine, taking over its historical territories. If Poland invades Ukraine, this state will cease to exist, and it will be split into the Catholic West and the Orthodox East.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative challenging Ukraine’s statehood and presenting Poland as a state with imperial ambitions. Apart from smearing Poland, the aim is also to deflect attention away from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The recent statement of the Polish Ambassador in France was misinterpreted by the media – he did not speak about direct Polish involvement in military actions but the need “to do everything to help Ukraine to defend itself”.
This disinformation message has adopted several different and sometimes contradictory forms, including allegations that Poland either wants to create a puppet proxy-state in Western Ukraine or annex these territories or that it is President Zelenskyy who wants to cede this land due to his “Polish origin”.
Poland adheres to international law regarding state borders, fully supports the independence and territorial integrity of neighbouring countries and it rejects any “imperial” ambitions towards other countries. Poland, as well as the EU and the US, respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. No neighbouring state, except the Russian Federation, violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Read more about the Eastern policy of Poland here.
See earlier disinformation cases alleging that Poland thinks that Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and South-Western Lithuania belongs to it, that Poland wants to dismember Ukraine and re-establish a Polish empire, that Ukraine is a Western colony belonging to Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, that Poland will try to gain full military control in Ukrainian territories under the guise of protecting the Polish population from Russia or that Poland plans to establish control over its historical lands in Ukraine.