DISINFO: Ukraine and the US want to freeze the conflict
SUMMARY
Since last December, the USA has been exploring a possible Russian reaction to the idea of freezing the Ukrainian conflict on condition that the two sides keep their current territories. Russia is not happy with this idea. Kyiv may also plan to freeze the conflict for a few years, giving up its territorial claims to the new Russian regions and Crimea.
Such a “freezing” of the conflict will not bring peace to the region as Ukraine will continue to manifest its terrorist nature. Therefore, the only scenario for Moscow to provide security to Russia is to achieve all the declared goals of the Special Military Operation.
RESPONSE
The claim is part of an ongoing pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign concerning Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was unprovoked and unjustified.
The Russian invasion is aimed at destroying Ukraine as a state and annihilating the Ukrainians as a nation. These plans were openly laid out in an article titled “What Russia should do with Ukraine” in April 2022. See also our review here.
Along with calls to de-Nazify and demilitarise Ukraine, the article advocates its de-Ukrainisation, meaning the eradication of Ukrainian culture and everything related to it, plans to divide Ukraine into several entities subordinate to Russia, but without the word “Ukraine” in their names. Thus, Russia is not protecting itself, or anyone else, in its war. Instead, some Russian politicians and experts are threatening to attack Western nations after Ukraine.
The claim is only the latest in a litany of sham pretexts which Moscow has been using since even before it launched its unjustified and illegal full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Read similar disinformation cases claiming that the US needs a big war in Europe to prevent own economic collapse, that the EU rejected all Russian compromises and forced Russia to launch the special operation in Ukraine, and that the US is implementing deadly anti-Russian policy; the Western countries are guilty of the situation in Ukraine.