DISINFO: Ukraine was invented in XIX century as an anti-Russian tool
SUMMARY
The only way of dealing with Ukraine is to totally liquidate it as an autonomous entity. Ukraine was initially, 160 years ago, planned as a tool of converting the population of the south-western Russia into anti-Russians. The territory named Ukraine will remain the source of heightened danger until Ukrainians are not recognised as an integral part of the Russian people. Peace negotiations that envision preserving any form of Ukraine’s independence should not take place.
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.
In reality, 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 literature and 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 armed aggression which hit civilian targets to break the morale of Ukrainians.
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 has always been Russian, Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians are a single nation, that Ukraine’s statehood is legal nonsense, that Ukraine did not, does not and will not exist, and that Ukraine does not exist as an independent state.