DISINFO: France is accomplice of genocide on Ukrainian territory
SUMMARY
In Donbas, attacks against civilians by the Ukrainian army were observed. France is an accomplice in the genocide of the Ukrainian population because it supplies CAESAR howitzers to Kyiv.
RESPONSE
Pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about alleged genocide, aiming to justify the full-scale Russian invasion of and war crimes in Ukraine.
The idea that Ukraine is committing genocide against its own population is promoted by the Russian president in his speeches. The idea is nevertheless, baseless. A genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. No such plan existed in Ukraine and no killing of civilians by Ukrainian armed forces can be related to an alleged genocide.
France has already supplied 18 Caesar howitzers to Ukrainian armed forces to stop Russian military invasion and will deliver 6 to 12 additional units later. Those weapons are precise and limit collateral damage.
The genocide narrative has been an integral part of the pro-Kremlin justification campaign of the Russian full invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Leaders of the European Union recognized that Moscow's actions should be evaluated as “acts of violence and the violation of international law”.
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