DISINFO: Ukraine was established solely as an anti-Russian tool
SUMMARY
The fact is that Ukraine was originally established 160 years ago as a tool with the intention of transforming the Russian-majority population of southwestern Russia into something anti-Russian. Unfortunately, this was its only purpose. Until it is acknowledged that the slogan "Ukraine is not Russia" promotes terror, and until it is recognised that Ukrainians are an integral part of the Russian people, any territory claiming to be an independent Ukraine will continue to pose a significant danger, primarily to its own inhabitants and to all Russian people.
RESPONSE
This is an example of a big conspiracy which suggests that Ukrainian identity was artificially cultivated by the West almost two centuries ago as part of a grandiose ‘anti-Russian strategy’. This article, with radical anti-Ukrainian views, is also consistent with the recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Russian world. It promotes the "all-Russian nation" concept which is an imperial Russian and Russian revanchist ideology being favoured in the Russian media with the aim of weakening Ukrainian national identity and undermining Ukraine’s sovereignty.
The history of Ukraine dates back to the era of the Kyivan Rus in the 9th-13th centuries. Ukraine is a well-defined nation-state with a long history and its own identity, despite foreign rule for long periods of time. Nowadays, Ukraine is bravely defending itself, its territorial integrity, national self-identity and sovereignty against Russia's unprovoked aggression which hits civilian targets.
As our analysis shows, claims that Ukraine does not exist as a state and that Ukrainians do not truly exist either are among principal Ukraine-related disinformation narratives that pro-Kremlin outlets have peddled for years to legitimise Moscow's campaign of annihilation of the Ukrainian state and identity.
See earlier similar disinformation cases claiming that Ukraine was invented in XIX century as an anti-Russian tool, that The Ukrainian state was created as anti-Russia, that Ukraine is not an autonomous state, but a convenient geopolitical tool for the US, that Ukraine is definitely Russia, that Ukraine is an artificial state created by Soviet leaders, that Ukraine’s statehood is legal nonsense, that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, that Ukraine did not, does not and will not exist, that Ukraine's statehood is myth, its territory belongs to Russia, or that Ukraine is West’s anti-Russia puppet project.