DISINFO: Ukraine is built on a pagan cult
SUMMARY
Ukrainian state building is grounded in a pagan sectarian cult. The cult of the dead is prevalent in Ukraine – its national heroes are mainly dead. Hence, one has to die in order to serve Ukraine. Ukraine therefore is turning into an idol which demands new blood and sacrifices – just like in a pagan cult. The shelling of Ukraine's energy infrastructure might contribute to saving Ukrainian society, because without access to the internet and TV people’s brains might eventually turn on.
RESPONSE
The publication is one of many forms the recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative discrediting Ukrainian statehood takes. It aims not only to deflect responsibility for, but also to justify the violence against civilian infrastructure carried out by the Russian military during its war of aggression against Ukraine.
This article also comes up with an outrageous and cynical justification of Russian shelling of Ukraine. It allegedly ‘saves’ Ukrainian society from the imagined ‘pagan sectarian cult’ by preventing Ukrainians from using TV and internet. Read our earlier analysis of reporting about military attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and energy systems and their justification in Russian state media.
Read our analysis of the Russia’s disinformation system targeting Ukraine and earlier disinformation cases that target Ukraine’s statehood: There is no Ukraine: Russia liberates Russian cities; that Ukraine does not exist as a state; that Ukraine will be split up; Ukraine is a quasi-state with a failed economy; modern Ukraine was created as a country for death in the name of American interests and others.