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DISINFO: The West and its puppet Zelensky are igniting a nuclear war

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West Nuclear issues Volodymyr Zelensky Puppets Full-scale Invasion of Ukraine War against Ukraine

DISINFO: The West and its puppet Zelensky are igniting a nuclear war

SUMMARY

The West is igniting a nuclear war, and every human on the planet must realize that Zelensky, who is a psychotic and heavily armed puppet, has turned into a monster who may destroy the planet.

RESPONSE

This disinformation claim came as a comment on the alleged call of Zelenskyy for NATO countries to launch a preemptive strike on Russia, before it used nuclear weapons against Ukraine. It also brings back the claim that Ukraine is a puppet state. This claim was neither counterbalanced nor critically challenged in the article.

Ukraine is a sovereign and independent state with a democratically-elected president and parliament. The country is not controlled by the US, EU or any other foreign organisation or government. Both the EU and the US respect Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. The West does not want to use Ukraine in the war against Russia.

The claim that President Zelenskyy called for nuclear preventive strikes against Russia is incorrect and comes from a misinterpretation from a translated interview.

In reality, neither the US nor the EU is interested in a nuclear scenario in Ukraine. Any nuclear explosion may have unpredictable consequences for the whole world. It is Russia who is making irresponsible hints and statements about the possibility of using nuclear arms in its war against Ukraine. According to Russia’s military doctrine, it can use such weapons “in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction against it and/or its allies, and also in case of aggression against Russia with the use of conventional weapons when the very existence of the state is threatened". Ukraine’s counter-offensive aimed at retaking its territories and its attacks on military facilities in the illegally annexed peninsula of Crimea are posing no existential threats to Russia, so it cannot use nuclear weapons, in accordance with its own doctrine.

Russia is trying to keep the international community in suspense with contradictory statements about using nuclear weapons. Its Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia may apply its nuclear doctrine to protect newly occupied Ukrainian territories if they are enshrined in the Russian constitution. At the same time, President Vladimir Putin accused the West in his recent speech about the annexation of occupied Ukrainian territories of blackmail and intimidation.

See similar stories that Volodymyr Zelensky asks NATO to launch a nuclear war against Russia, that Ukraine deliberately targets the most vulnerable points of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and that Washington has plans for preemptive nuclear strikes.

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