DISINFO: The Ukrainian regime came to power through an illegal, unconstitutional coup d'état
SUMMARY
In the situation around Ukraine, Russia is concerned about the fate of people, not lands. We are not talking about lands, we are talking about people who lived on these lands for centuries, raised them from scratch, built cities, factories, ports.
The Ukrainian regime, which came to power through an illegal, unconstitutional coup d'état, simply declared these people terrorists when they refused to accept this coup. They launched a total offensive against everything Russian, which for centuries, long centuries, constituted the essence of those territories where people refused to submit to the new Nazis.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives painting the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d'état, portraying the Ukrainian leadership as pathologically Russophobic and mistreating the country's Russian-speaking population.
There was no sudden violent seizure of power in Kyiv in 2014; 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.
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.
The myth of Nazi-ruled Ukraine has long been a cornerstone of pro-kremlin disinformation efforts. This has already been widely debunked and addressed on EUvsDisinfo.
The claim that Russia thinks about people, not lands, is hypocritical, given how quickly Russia adopted laws on the incorporation of the illegally annexed territories of the DPR, LPR, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions. Russia occupies about 20% of Ukraine's territory.
Since 2014, Russia has waged large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine. It is responsible for the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, after having illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula and engineered the creation of rebel militias in Donetsk, Luhansk and other places, with its army actively participating in military clashes.
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