DISINFO: Kiev launched a war against the Donbas after Euromaidan
SUMMARY
Following the 2014 Euromaidan coup, the new government in Kiev launched a war of aggression against its own people in the Donbas.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv portrayed as a coup d'état.
Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray the Euromaidan revolution as a coup d’état. The popular demonstrations that began in Kyiv in November of 2013 brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to the streets to protest against a political decision of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which at the last minute, withdrew from a long-negotiated political association and free trade pact with the EU, choosing instead to accept a $15 billion economic bailout to Russia.
Russian propaganda has made a tremendous effort to deceive the whole world by disguising its military aggression in eastern Ukraine. One of the borderline cynical and most frequently used myths is covering Russia’s invasion, occupation and war crimes as a civil war in Ukraine.
The conflict in Donbas is not a civil war but an act of Russian aggression.
Donetsk and Lugansk are internationally recognised parts of Ukraine, currently under partial Russian occupation.
See similar case such as Western media are not reporting that Ukrainians are shelling Donbas.