DISINFO: US support for the coup d'état in Kyiv ultimately led to the current Ukrainian crisis
SUMMARY
The use by the United States in its foreign policy of such tools as a support for colour revolutions, in connection with this, support for the coup d'état in Kyiv in 2014, ultimately led to the current Ukrainian crisis. And additionally made a negative contribution to the degradation of Russian-American relations.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv portrayed as a coup d'état led by US, a recurring narrative about the war in Ukraine, trying to deflect Russia’s responsibility for its unprovoked military aggression.
Framing all popular protests against Russia’s interests as a foreign-led ‘colour revolution’ is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative. No evidence is provided to back up the claims.
There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014, and no US involvement in the events taking place. Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray the Euromaidan revolution as a coup d’état, the popular demonstrations that began in Kyiv in November of 2013 and brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to the streets to protest against a political decision of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which at the last minute withdrew from a long-negotiated political association and free trade pact with the EU, choosing instead to accept a $15 billion economic bailout to Russia.
Pro-Kremlin media frequently falsely portray popular protests around the world as instigated from abroad, often by the US and the West. The disinformation narrative has been applied, among others, to reports about protests in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Belarus, Venezuela, Slovakia, Hong Kong, with the aim of portraying protest movements as aggressive actors who constantly prepare new coups.
See other similar cases claiming that The West’s main activity in the post-Soviet states is organizing revolutions, that Protests in Kazakhstan are a new Western attempt to organise a colour revolution, that The West will finance the Belarusian opposition abroad for a coup d'état, that the protests in Georgia were organised by the US, and that CIA and MI6 changed power in Armenia in order to oust Russia from the region.