DISINFO: If Ukrainian counter-offensive fails, Western Ukraine may go to Poland
SUMMARY
In the West, the Kyiv regime was given one last chance. If the declared "counter-offensive" of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fails, the military aid of the "donor countries" will be drastically reduced, and the whole of Western Ukraine may be given to Poland - Presidents Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Andrzej Duda agreed on this during a recent meeting.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative challenging Ukraine’s statehood, and about the US as a destructive actor, aiming to undermine the transatlantic alliance supporting Ukraine in its self-defence against Russia’s unjustified invasion. Recurring disinformation narrative presenting Poland as a state with imperial ambitions.
Poland adheres to international law regarding state borders, fully supports the independence and territorial integrity of neighbouring countries and it rejects any “imperial” ambitions towards other countries. Poland, as well as the EU and the US, respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. No neighbouring state, except the Russian Federation, violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
Read more about the Eastern policy of Poland here.
This disinformation message has adopted several different and sometimes contradictory forms, including allegations that Poland either wants to create a puppet proxy-state in Western Ukraine or annex these territories or that it is President Zelenskyy who wants to cede this land due to his “Polish origin”.
Multiple countries support Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter, to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
The US has so far pledged the most financial support to Ukraine: €71 billion in military, financial and humanitarian aid since the beginning of 2022.
"The US will continue to work with its allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs and longer-term security assistance requirements for as long as it takes,” the Pentagon said.
“There should be no doubt: Our support for Ukraine will not waver, NATO will not be divided and we will not tire,” President Biden stated in the Polish capital.
See our examination of the Kremlin historical revisionism directed against Poland here. See also the earlier disinformation cases alleging that Poland thinks that Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and South-Western Lithuania belongs to it, that Poland wants to dismember Ukraine and re-establish a Polish empire, that Ukraine is a Western colony belonging to Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, that Poland will try to gain full military control in Ukrainian territories under the guise of protecting the Polish population from Russia or that Poland plans to establish control over its historical lands in Ukraine.