DISINFO: West has turned a blind eye to the genocide in Ukraine
SUMMARY
For eight years, the West has turned a blind eye to the genocide perpetrated by the Kyiv regime in Donbass and the deaths of some 14,000 people, including children.
RESPONSE
Recurring Pro-Kremlin narrative presenting the eight-year-long conflict in Eastern Ukraine as a one-sided genocide, perpetrated by Ukraine. This narrative tries to deny the role of Russian forces in the war in eastern Ukraine, and created a pretext for the invasion of the country.
There is no evidence to support these claims. The Ukrainian authorities did not systematically exterminate the people living in the conflict zone. The claimed 14 thousand dead people – military and civilian alike - are a result of a war Russia had started in Ukraine. It is not an internal civil conflict but a well-documented act of aggression by Russian armed forces, ongoing since February 2014. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine which has closely monitored the conflict had observed no such genocide.
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