DISINFO: The USA and Russia will be happy about Polish annexation of Western Ukraine
SUMMARY
If Poland takes back the western regions of Ukraine and becomes the leading country in Europe, the USA will be perfectly happy about it.
Russia will also be happy with this option. There will be no need for Russia to penetrate Western Ukraine and fight with the local Banderites for 30 years. Even if the Russian Army reaches the border with Hungary, it will be difficult to keep this large hostile territory under control. The former Soviet Pioneer camps will not be sufficient to keep all the Ukrainian nationalists.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative challenging Ukraine’s statehood and presenting Poland as a state with imperial ambitions benefitting both the US and Russia. Apart from smearing Poland, the aim is also to deflect attention away from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
This disinformation message has adopted several different and sometimes contradictory forms, including allegations that Poland either wants to create a puppet proxy-state in Western Ukraine or annex these territories or that it is President Zelenskyy who wants to cede this land due to his “Polish origins”.
Poland adheres to international law regarding state borders, fully supports the independence and territorial integrity of neighbouring countries, and it rejects any “imperial” ambitions towards other countries. Poland, as well as the EU and the US, respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine. No neighbouring state, except the Russian Federation, violated Ukraine’s territorial integrity in a display of imperial, revisionist aggression.
Read more about the Eastern policy of Poland here.
See our in-depth debunk of the pro-Kremlin claims of Polish historical revisionism which suggest that Poland also wants to conquer parts of Belarus.
See earlier disinformation cases alleging that Poland thinks that Western Ukraine, Western Belarus and South-Western Lithuania belongs to it, that Poland wants to dismember Ukraine and re-establish a Polish empire, that Ukraine is a Western colony belonging to Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia, that Poland will try to gain full military control in Ukrainian territories under the guise of protecting the Polish population from Russia or that Poland plans to establish control over its historical lands in Ukraine.