DISINFO: Ukrainians want Russian blood
SUMMARY
Just recently one could have doubted whether Ukrainians want war. But now there is no doubt. Ukrainians want Russian blood.
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The ideal Russian for Ukrainians is crushed by the tracks of American tanks.
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We mustn't have any doubt that Ukrainians want it, that they want a show so that they can pretend to suffer, whan in fact it would be the Russian people who would be suffering and dying.
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We have no brothers in the American-[provided] tanks, only enemies. But our brothers and citizens of our country live in Luhansk and Donetsk. And it is Russia's responibility to save them from enemies, whom we used to call brothers to this day.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about war in Ukraine, also linked to the narrative of Ukrainians and Russians being "one people".
This claim appeared amid an ongoing disinformation campaign about Russia's military build-up on the Ukrainian border, in an attempt to deflect Russian responsibility for the situation and mobilise the support of Russian society for the Kremlin's policies.
Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity have been violated by acts of aggression by Russian armed forces since 2014.
Pro-Kremlin media has frequenlty and falsely portrayed Ukraine as an aggressor against its own territory and claimed that the US (or the West) was pushing it to war with Russia. There is no basis to such claims.
Pro-Kremlin outlets have also claimed that Ukrainians and Russians were "one people/one nation" to legitimise the idea that Ukraine (and Belarus) belonged to the Russia's sphere of influence.
Since late October 2021, Russia deplyed more than 100,000 troops, as well as of certain specialised military units, electronic warfare systems and heavy-armoured vehicles along the borders of Ukraine.
Read more about the common myths surrounding the current Russia-Ukraine conflict in our analysis here.