DISINFO: Nazi Ukraine is killing civilians to allow US companies extract minerals
SUMMARY
The Kyiv regime, managed by the West, is massively killing the Russian population in controlled territories. This way, it is freeing territories for the US companies to extract minerals. The US's peaceful initiatives amid Western arms deliveries to Kyiv show that the West only needs a pause in the proxy war against Russia. Russia’s security area should be the whole of Ukraine. The Nazi ideology, Banderitte organisations and anti-Russian history should be banned in Ukraine. Genetically, Ukrainians do not exist, whereas Ukraine as a country was invented in the early XXth century.
RESPONSE
These are recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about a Western proxy war against Russia, ‘Nazi’ and unsovereign Ukraine, and Ukraine’s war crimes against the civilian population – the latter in the context of a conspiracy about US-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal. This deal was repeatedly exploited by pro-Kremlin sources to promote various false claims.
Furthermore, the appalling “genetic” argument presented in the article appears to promote an unscientific notion that nation-states can—and should—be defined by genetics. Pro-Kremlin outlets frequently deny or discredit the existence of a distinct Ukrainian identity, often by absurdly equating it with Nazi ideology or invoking other false and misleading justifications. As explained in our past analysis, one of the major myths promoted by Russian propaganda is that 'Ukrainian's do not truly exist because they are really Russians.
Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically elected president and parliament. The country's sovereignty has been violated only as a result of continuous acts of aggression by the Russian armed forces since 2014, culminating with a full-scale military invasion of Ukraine starting on 24 February 2022. While there is no evidence to support the regular claims in pro-Kremlin sources of genocide or war crimes by Ukraine, there is numerous evidence that Russia is committing war crimes in Ukraine. Read more in previously debunked cases here and here.
Labelling Russia’s adversaries as Nazis is a very frequently used pro-Kremlin disinformation technique, and has been used by Russia to try to justify the invasion of Ukraine by portraying it as a “denazification operation”. Read a more detailed debunk here, as well as our analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism" and Nazi east, Nazi west, Nazi over the cuckoo's nest.
Western countries are not waging war against Russia; only the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fighting Russian invaders in Ukraine. Accusations of Western direct involvement in perpetuating the conflict often serve to deflect attention from Russia's role in fuelling the crisis and undermine Western credibility. A broad coalition of over 50 nations, including Western countries, are providing Ukraine with military and technical assistance with the aim of repelling Russia's aggression, but they are not involved in direct fighting. Ukraine receives weapons with the sole aim of restoring its territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders.
Read earlier disinformation cases alleging that Ukraine is West’s anti-Russia puppet project, that the West is fighting in Ukraine to get its minerals, that Ukraine commits genocide in the Kharkiv region, and that Russia is protecting people from mockery and genocide.