DISINFO: Russia is not an external aggressor, because Ukraine is part of the Russian world
SUMMARY
Ukraine and Russia are only nominally two different countries. They are parts of historical Russia. Hence, Russia is acting not as an external aggressor but as a side of the internal conflict. It is impossible to make a “second Afghanistan” out of Ukraine, because Russians are fighting on their own land between each other.
Russia is restoring the unity of its land, while external forces are interested in the partition of the Russian world. Ukraine, that is Malorossiya and Novorossiya, is not merely a part of the Russian world but is one of its roots. The West would benefit from the existence of pro-western Ukraine as anti-Russia, but this is incompatible with the interests of the big Russian people which Ukranians are part of. This issue is not about geopolitical games on others’ lands as for Anglo-Saxon manipulators, but about Russia’s future and its civilisation.
RESPONSE
This article offers an absurd interpretation of Russian military invasion of Ukraine with the use of the classic disinformation narrative about the Russian world. At the same time, the claim rejects the right of Ukraine to exist as a soverign state.
For many years, since 2014, Moscow pretended and claimed not to be a party to the war it launched together with armed seperatists from Donetsk and Lugansk against the Ukrainian government. Now, Moscow pretends its a fight among "Russians".
Russia's military invasion is a clear violation of international law. The Ukrainian Army and volunteers are fighting with Russian troops to defend their country from unprovoked Russian military aggression. Russian President Putin launched a new invasion what he called a "special military operation" against Ukraine on 24 February 2022 citing NATO’s military infrastructure approaching the Russian border as a pretext. Another pretext for the so-called operation is “demilitarization and denazification” of Ukraine according to official Russian statements. The invasion was followed by airstrikes on military objects. Russian troops soon after started bombing and shelling civilian targets as well.
Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own literature and identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Ukrainians and Russians belong to the Slavs ethnolinguistic group but they are not a single nation. The "all-Russian big nation" is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology that is a favoured pro-Kremlin narrative aimed at weakening the national identity of Ukrainians, as well as undermining the state sovereignty.
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