DISINFO: The Anglo-Saxons fight with the hands of others to the last Ukrainian
SUMMARY
Let's remember that in 2022, Kyiv refused to negotiate with Moscow at the call of the then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson came to Kyiv and said [Ukraine] would not sign anything with Russia. And "let's just fight."
How simple everything is for the Anglo-Saxons - just fight with someone else's hands, "to the last Ukrainian", to a "bloodbath".
RESPONSE
A recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Ukraine and its allies are not interested in peace, accusing so-called Anglo-Saxons of warmongering. The claim is part of an ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign in Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It also attempts to portray Ukraine as a Western puppet state.
There is no evidence to claim that the then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, prohibited Ukraine from signing a settlement agreement with Russia in 2022. This disinformation narrative represents a manipulation of an interview with Davit Arakhamia, the chairman of the parliamentary faction of the ruling party of Ukraine. In the interview, Arakhamia himself denied the fact that the Ukrainian delegation was ready to sign the document and that Boris Johnson allegedly stopped them. Read the full debunk of the story at Myth Detector.
The term “Anglo-Saxons” in such cases normally stands for the US and UK and often means “evil”, “belligerent” and “morally corrupt” Westerners, as explained in our earlier analysis. As a negative catch-all term, the “Anglo-Saxons” term is a useful building block for pro-Kremlin conspiracy theories. You can find plenty of examples in our database.
Putin and the Kremlin have a track record of pretending negotiations which are, in fact, just blunt demands for Ukrainian unconditional surrender. We have analysed this disinfo tactic in several articles, especially: "Prepare for winter" (30 Nov. 2023), "Russian so-called ‘peace proposals’ are empty PR stunts" (18 Jan. 2023) , "What He Said and What it Really Means – Vol. 2: “Negotiations” (1. March 2022) and "The Kremlin security demands" (21 Dec. 2021).
Read similar disinformation cases claiming that Boris Johnson prohibited Kyiv from signing an agreement with Russia in 2022, that Boris Johnson derailed 2022 Istanbul peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, that Ukraine staged Bucha massacre to derail peace talks with Russia, that Ukrainian negotiator admitted the war could have ended in 2022, that West did not want peace, it prodded Ukraine into war, that Zelenskyy and the EU want a permanent war in Ukraine, that Zelenskyy’s peace plan is a war formula, or that Russia never rejected a peaceful solution in Ukraine, Kyiv refuses to negotiate.