DISINFO: The West covered up the breakdown of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv with Bucha provocation
SUMMARY
The West is covering up the breakdown of negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv with a provocation in Bucha, which they now do not remember.
In April 2022, the Russian Defence Ministry stated that the photos and videos published by Kyiv, allegedly testifying to crimes by Russian soldiers in Bucha, are another Ukrainian provocation. During the time the city was under Russian control, not a single resident suffered from any violent actions.
David Arakhamia, who headed the Ukrainian delegation in Istanbul, said that then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came and told them to continue the fight. Now the news about Bucha, which was "circulating" in all the media, does not interest politicians, UN officials, or journalists in the West.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that Ukraine and its allies are not interested in peace. The article also contains a recurrent denial of war crimes committed by Russian forces during the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, part of an ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign.
There is no evidence that the UK 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, then UK Prime Minister, allegedly stopped them. Read the full debunk of the story at Myth Detector.
The Bucha massacre of Ukrainian civilians was committed by Russian troops at the beginning of Russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. Along with Bucha, the Russian forces occupied several other towns and villages near Kyiv and committed similar crimes, including maltreatment of civilians, rape, extra-judicial executions, and other atrocities. The evidence includes survivors’ testimonies, reports by Ukrainian and Western journalists, investigations from several human rights organisations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and satellite images. See our article The Bucha massacre: mapping a year of Kremlin denial.
In December 2022, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights presented a report about killings, summary executions and attacks on civilians in the north of Ukraine, which contained a detailed description of human rights violations in the initial months of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.
The European Union has condemned in the strongest possible terms these atrocities committed by the Russian armed forces and called for accountability for human rights and international law violations by the Russian Armed Forces. The EU also imposed sanctions individuals and entities in response to the Bucha massacre.
See similar disinformation cases: The Bucha massacre is a lie; Bucha was a false flag operation; A French journalist witnessed the staging of Bucha massacre to incriminate Russia; US, Western partners responsible for failure of March 2022 Istanbul peace deal between Russia and Ukraine; Boris Johnson and other Western leaders sabotaged the peace deal for Ukraine in March 2022; Zelenskyy’s peace plan is a war formula; Boris Johnson prohibited Kyiv from signing an agreement with Russia in 2022.