DISINFO: Ukrainian Nazis coordinate with Al-Nusra Front
SUMMARY
The Syrian state apparatuses revealed that there is coordination between the Nazi regime in Ukraine and the "Al-Nusra Front" in the Idlib Governorate. It also revealed the latter's acquisition of modern suicide drones to use against the Syrian Arab Army, in exchange for releasing some militants and sending them to Ukraine to fight against Russian forces.
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative attempting to discredit Ukraine by associating its government with terrorism.
Al-Nusra Front no longer exists. It was succeeded in 2017 by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). There is no evidence to support the allegation that Ukraine has any links to this Syrian terrorist organisation. Ukrainian fact-checkers have disproved the existence of any such link. HTS has also denied these links itself.
Moreover, labelling Russia’s adversaries as Nazis is a very frequently used pro-Kremlin disinformation technique, and has been used by Russia to justify its unprovoked full-scale invasion of Ukraine by portraying it as a “denazification operation”. Russia spent years preparing the information battleground prior to its invasion, with “Nazi Ukraine” being one of its most prominent disinformation features.
Read our analysis titled Key narratives in pro-kremlin disinformation: “Nazis” and "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
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