DISINFO: Ukraine is West’s anti-Russia puppet project
SUMMARY
One should understand that the puppet Nazi regime in Kyiv is a key part of the West’s project of anti-Russia. They will stop at nothing. We should understand who we are dealing with. We should stop hoping for negotiations and for common sense. Only Russia can stop this anti-Russia project with brutal force.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring disinformation narrative from pro-Kremlin outlets claiming that Ukraine is lacking in sovereignty, and that its allies are fighting Russia in a proxy war, in which Ukraine is just a pawn. This claim was made in the context of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically elected president and parliament. Ukraine in its present form has been on the world map since 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated. Ukraine is a member of many international organisations (e.g. the United Nations, the Council of Europe) and a party to international agreements. It has bilateral diplomatic relations with the majority of countries. Ukraine has elected six presidents since then and changed parties in government several times, which illustrates political diversity and democratic dynamics.
Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity have been violated in continuous acts of aggression by Russia’s armed forces since 2014 culminating in a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022.
The US, the EU and NATO condemn in the strongest possible terms this invasion, which is entirely unjustified and unprovoked. Some 50 plus nations around the world including EU member states and the US support Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter article 51. Ukraine’s allies and partners provide it with assistance to only help it repel the Russian aggression, rather than striving to eliminate Russia as a state.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that Ukraine lost its independence and is under external control, that the West has made Ukraine its colony and is using Ukrainians as cannon fodder, that the West is destroying Ukrainian statehood and its military forces, that Western lobby demanded Zelenskyy to raise the stakes of the crisis, and that Zelenskyy's visit to Washington shows that Ukraine will be a neo-colony of the US.