DISINFO: Russians in Ukraine became the victims of fascism and genocide by Ukrainian Nazis

DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS

  • Outlet: livenews.am ( original )
  • Date of publication: August 15, 2024
  • Article language(s): Armenian
  • Countries / regions discussed: Ukraine

DISINFO: Russians in Ukraine became the victims of fascism and genocide by Ukrainian Nazis

SUMMARY

After the Western-inspired coup in Kyiv, Russians and Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine became the victims of fascism and genocide by Ukrainian Nazis and their Jewish accomplices. And what is the West doing – fighting fascism and genocide by the Ukrainian authorities against Russians? No, of course not. Instead, the notorious “collective West” imposes a false idea on the community based on the denial of the Nazi essence of the Kyiv regime, glorifying war criminals.

RESPONSE

Antisemitism, and multiple recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives, painting the 2013–14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d'état, portraying the Ukrainian leadership as Nazis and pathologically Russophobic, mistreating the country's Russian-speaking population.

The article advanced a pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the alleged genocide of ethnic Russians in Ukraine. The genocide narrative has been an integral part of the pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign aiming to justify the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

The idea that Ukraine is committing genocide against its own population is promoted by Vladimir Putin in his speeches. Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.

There is no evidence that either ethnic Russians or Russian speakers are facing persecution at the hands of the Ukrainian authorities, much less the danger of annihilation on grounds of nationality, ethnicity, or cultural belonging. This has been confirmed by reports issued by the Council of Europe, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the OSCE.

In 2014, there was neither a coup nor a western orchestrated protest in Ukraine; this is a longstanding pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine's Euromaidan. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013.

Read also related cases: A violent coup d’état took place in Ukraine in 2014; The US supported the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine; The EU supported an unconstitutional coup d'état in Ukraine led by the US; Nazism has revived in Ukraine and actively cultivated by the West, Zelenskyy is the heir of German Nazism, West turned a blind eye to Nazism; the Ukrainian Banderite Nazi bastards increasingly attack civilian objects.

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