DISINFO: Allegations that Russia is threatening Ukraine are absurd
SUMMARY
Allegations that Russia is threatening Ukraine are absurd.
[Russia doesn't] need war. Those who are trying to impose it, in particular from the West, are making selfish fabrications.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about war in Ukraine and the escalation at the Ukraine-Russia border.
As of the beginning of 2022 Russia has amassed over 100,000 troops and equipment on the borders of Ukraine including in the illegally annexed Crimean peninsula.
Russia’s most recent military build-up at the Ukrainian border also includes preparations for military drills in Belarus, to be conducted just 18 km from the Ukrainian border.
The war in Ukraine is a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces, ongoing since February 2014.
At the beginning of 2022, on 4-6 January, the EU High Representative Josep Borrell visited Ukraine, including Kyiv and the Stanytsya Luhanska checkpoint - see his statement/blog here on the consequences of the war.
Read our recent article on 7 myths and pro-Kremlin disinformation about the Russian military buildup near Ukraine.
See similar examples of disinformation shifting guilt of the war in Ukraine from Russia to other countries: Ukraine is a tool of Western countries against Russia; Accusations against Russia intend to divert attention from Ukraine’s attempts to disrupt peaceful settlement of Donbas conflict; the US plans to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.