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Ukrainians are not an indigenous population, but rather the occupiers of Ukraine, and Russia is liberating its historical provinces, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
Propaganda: Ukrainians are occupiers in their country, and Russia is fighting a legitimate war to save Russian speakers and Russian culture from the Nazi threat
NEWS: When you are surrounded by “a foreign culture”, “a foreign language”, “foreign monuments” - surely you are a foreigner in a foreign land and by no means a native. Ukrainian nationalists are destroying hundreds of monuments, renaming thousands of streets, banning the Russian language in the media, banning Russian science and culture, yet unwittingly doing nothing but confirming that they are on a foreign land, that they are the occupiers.
Galicians once settled in the depopulated Polish and Jewish quarters of Lviv and proclaimed them a masterpiece of “Ukrainian architecture”, then infected Russian Kyiv with nonsense about “ancient Ukrainian castles”, and now they are trying to steal Kharkiv and Odessa, which were not founded by them, from Russian speakers. With the audacity of robbers, they break into other people's homes and claim someone else's property for their own.
[…] The recovery of what was stolen from Russia is like healing the soul from the neo-Nazi infection and represents the preservation of Russian cities with a developed infrastructure system. Present-day Ukraine has been turned into a huge concentration camp. A just military operation represents the return of stolen freedom and violated human dignity.
NARRATIVES: Russia is waging a legitimate war designed to liberate historical provinces from Ukrainian occupiers. 2. Kyiv is persecuting Russian speakers, and Russia is forced to respond. 3. Ukraine is a Nazi and dangerous state.
PURPOSE: To justify the continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Fact: Russia invaded an independent state to occupy it, and its military aggression has been condemned by the international community
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: In fact, Ukraine’s territory does not belong to Russia, and the war started by Putin cannot be called legitimate. Russia invaded the Ukrainian state, killed civilians, destroyed infrastructure targets despite the fact that Moscow recognized Ukraine's borders following the signing of a bilateral agreement in 1997. Also, Russia is one of the warrantors of Ukraine's security, as per the Budapest Memorandum signed in 1994. Russia's actions violate international treaties signed and ratified by the Russian side.
Ukrainians cannot be called foreigners or occupiers in their own state. They are the founders of the state where the official language is Ukrainian. Russian propaganda once again manipulates public opinion, naming the victims of Moscow's military aggression occupiers, and the Russian occupation forces liberators. The overwhelming majority of Ukraine's population, whether Ukrainian- or Russian-speaking, hopes to achieve victory against Russia, which it perceives as a foreign, invading force.
Russian propaganda presents Kyiv’s efforts to combat Russia's hybrid war through mass media, cultural events, funded politicians, etc. as retaliation against the Russian-speaking community or an act of recognizing the Nazis’ “occupation of Russian lands”. The false narratives ignores a number of chapters in the history of the Ukrainian people, up to the policy of forced Russification of the southern and southeastern regions of Ukraine. Kyiv was documented in 482, while Moscow appears in documents almost 700 years later, in 1147. Ukraine fully came under Moscow's control towards the end of the 18th century, during the reign of Catherine II, and even then the Russian Empire could not assimilate it too easily.
After the annexation of Crimea, Ukraine initiated the decommunization of the social-political sphere, renaming streets and settlements by restoring their previous names. This policy was not a Russophobic one, as Moscow media writes, but one of returning to the historical Ukrainian roots prior to the Soviet occupation. Also, a number of TV stations and news portals broadcasting anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western propaganda were banned on the territory of Ukraine. Kyiv’s decision was taken with security considerations in mind, not ethnic or linguistic ones.
Ukraine is not a Nazi state and does not pose any threat to Russia. However, Kyiv is forced to defend itself.
Ukraine banned Nazi symbols on its territory, and far-right (Nazi, fascist) and far-left (communist) parties were outlawed. Since the declaration of independence, no Nazi leader has ever been voted in an election, and nationalist parties have not obtained more than 7% in legislative elections. Russian propaganda justifies the “special military operation” by invoking the need to save the lives of Russian-speakers and preserve the infrastructure of the cities, without mentioning that the Russian army is the one that killed many Russian-speaking civilians through bombings and destroyed many settlements with a predominantly Russian-speaking population.
Ever since the start of the war, Russian attacks have repeatedly targeted civilians. As a result, on March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who stands accused of war crimes in Ukraine. On November 23, 2022, following the atrocities committed by Vladimir Putin's regime against Ukrainian civilians, the European Parliament listed Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. As the EU cannot currently officially designate a state as a sponsor of terrorism, the European Parliament asked member states to develop an appropriate legal framework and consider adding Russia to such a list.
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