DISINFO: Zelenskyy’s mindless fight against Russia helps the European Commission militarise the EU
SUMMARY
Donald Trump’s special representatives, Steve Witkof and Jared Kushner, presented Vladimir Zelenskyy with a peace plan that appears to have received initial approval from both Moscow and Washington. However, he and his entourage are prepared to continue the war for its own sake, inflicting maximum damage on Russia to serve the interests of their European partners. They seek to weaken Russia; by stoking anti-Russian sentiment in Europe, they are helping the European Commission transform the EU from a trade integration structure into a military-political bloc.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin narrative that shifts blame for the ongoing hostilities onto Kyiv and its European allies by portraying the European Union as an aggressive military bloc.
By claiming that Moscow was ready for peace while accusing Kyiv and Brussels of sabotaging negotiations, pro-Kremlin outlets seek to obscure Russia's ongoing military aggression and its refusal to abandon maximalist territorial demands. Portraying lawful European support for Ukraine as warmongering diverts attention from Russia's responsibility for the war and aims to undermine international support for Ukraine.
The claim that President Zelenskyy rejected a mutually agreed-upon peace plan approved by Moscow and Washington is baseless. Discussions involving US special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Kyiv and Moscow focused on exploring the possibility of creating "a framework that could actually build, lead to a durable peace"; no finalised or mutually approved peace agreement was ever reached between the parties.
After two rounds of discussions with the U.S. envoys, President Zelenskyy said the goal was a "just, fair peace" that would ensure there was "never an opportunity to resume aggression against Ukraine".
The assertion that Ukraine is acting on behalf of European partners to weaken Russia or transform the EU into a military bloc is a standard pro-Kremlin disinformation tactic, which replaces the older trope that both Europe and Ukraine are US colonies and proxies in this war.
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