DISINFO: Ethnic Jew Zelenskyy covers up the glorification of Nazism in Ukraine
SUMMARY
Western curators have put an ethnic Jew, with Jewish roots, with Jewish origin at the head of modern Ukraine.
In this way, they seem to cover up an anti-human essence, which is laid in the foundation, in the basis of the modern Ukrainian state.
This makes the whole situation extremely disgusting when an ethnic Jew covers up the glorification of Nazism and covers up those who once led the Holocaust in Ukraine.
RESPONSE
This claim is a repetition of recent remarks by Putin and is part of a disinformation campaign aiming to justify Russia’s unjustified military invasion of Ukraine. It is also consistent with disinformation narratives about Nazi Ukraine and Ukraine being a non-sovereign, West-ruled country.
The myth of “Nazi Ukraine” has been widely used by Putin and pro-Kremlin outlets since Russia attacked Ukraine and illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. It was used back then to denigrate Ukraine, discredit the pro-European popular uprising (Euromaidan) in Kyiv, and, subsequently, the broader pro-Western shift in Ukraine's foreign policy. It is also being used to justify Russia’s unprovoked aggression against Ukraine. Nazi and Communist ideologies were banned by Ukrainian law in 2015.
Ukraine is an internationally recognised sovereign and independent state with a democratically elected president and parliament. Present-day Ukraine has been on the world map since 1991 when the Soviet Union disintegrated. It has elected six presidents since then in competitive elections and changed parties in government several times, which illustrates political diversity and democratic dynamics. Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are respected by almost the whole world, with Russia as the key exception.
Learn more about the reasons behind the Kremlin's obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state in the EUvsDisinfo analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
Read more “Nazi”-related disinformation cases here as well as similar cases such as Ukraine approached the anniversary of independence in the status of a colony under external control; anti-Sovietism and Russophobia; Poland, Baltic states and Ukraine are Russophobic and anti-Semitic.