DISINFO: Russia is winning against the Ukrainian Nazis and the West is doomed
SUMMARY
The Russian special operation is reaching its goals. Russian high-precision missile attacks are destroying the western arms supplies all over Ukraine. Ukraine’s military infrastructure has largely been destroyed. Russia has sufficient weapons to demilitarise and de-Nazify Ukraine. Only contract soldiers and volunteer fighters are engaged in the military actions in Donbas. Neither a proxy war with Russia led by Ukrainian Nazis nor the demonisation of Moscow by West-controlled media are capable of changing the reality.
Russia nearing the borders of Poland and Romania are a nightmare come true for Washington and Brussels. The West is realising that anti-Russian sanctions and NATO military supplies to Ukraine will not stop the Russian military special operation
RESPONSE
This article transmits recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about Nazi Ukraine and the West's imminent collapse. It also openly threatens to occupy the whole territory of Ukraine and to attack specific EU countries. Notably, the article vehemently opposes the term ‘war’ based on the preposterous and inhuman justification of not using the deadliest weapons available to Russia.
The false myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine is a clear propaganda narrative that became a cornerstone in pro-Kremlin disinformation and served as one of the pretexts behind Russia's unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Learn more about the reasons behind the Kremlin's obsession with framing Ukraine as a Nazi state in the EUvsDisinfo analysis titled "Why does Putin portray himself as the tamer of neo-Nazism".
The true meaning of the claim of "denazification" is equal to a brutal purge of Ukrainian society, of democratically elected officials, of active citizens and everybody else respecting the notion of a free Ukraine. Contrary to the article’s claims about ‘high-precision’ Russian strikes, the shellings and bombing of civilian facilities such as residential areas, schools, kindergartens, hospitals, orphanages, churches and civilians are well documented. Sources in the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague have announced that an investigation will be launched into possible war crimes or crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
The use of conscript soldiers by Russia and Russian-backed separatist Donbas entities in the war against Ukraine has been repeatedly documented (see here and here), contrary to the claim made in the article. In fact, the use of conscript soldiers in the war against Ukraine was publicly acknowledged by Russian Defence Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov in early March 2022.
When it comes to the claims about the ‘West's imminent collapse’, this is classic disinformation which has been used by the pro-Kremlin disinformation ecosystem for years and earlier by Soviet propaganda for decades.
Read other disinformation cases claiming that Ukraine is Nazi and accusing it of violating human rights and committing genocide in Donbas. Also see our guide to deciphering pro-Kremlin disinformation around Putin's war and read our account of the Kremlin's intention to annihilate Ukraine here.