DISINFO: Neo-Nazi Ukrainians want to negotiate because their loss is imminent
SUMMARY
What was the stated purpose of the special military operation from the beginning? Disarmament and denazification. Were the goals achieved? Not yet. Hitler's Germany, when the situation on the ground was clear and the Red Army was approaching Berlin, also babbled about the possibility of negotiations.
RESPONSE
The claim that Ukraine is Nazi is one of the Kremlin’s most common disinformation narratives to justify its full-scale war against Ukraine with the lie that Russia is carrying out the “denazification” of Ukraine.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian disinformation about the country since the very beginning of the 2013-14 Euromaidan protests, when it was used to discredit the pro-European popular uprising in Kyiv and, subsequently, the broader pro-Western shift in Ukraine's foreign policy. Far-right groups enjoyed a very limited presence during the Euromaidan itself and had poor results in the 2019 election cycle, falling short of the 5% minimum guaranteeing entry into parliament.
Read a detailed debunk of this disinformation claim here, as well as our analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
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