The West triggered the war in Ukraine in order to destroy Russia, but Russia will defend itself fiercely, according to Russian propaganda, quoting the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
Propaganda: Russia is defending itself in the war that the West triggered against it using Ukraine
NEWS: Europe is trying to use Ukraine to destroy Russia, the Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said live on Russia 1.
"We see how the West, how Europe is doing everything possible to destroy Russia and is using Ukraine for that. But Westerners have never succeeded. And what will they do next? They will fail. We will not allow anyone to bring us to our knees, we will not allow these Satans to rule us," Kadyrov said.
Kadyrov is confident in the failure of these attempts by Western countries to weaken Russia with the help of the conflict in Ukraine. He emphasized Russia's resilience and firmness in the face of any challenges and threats from the Western countries.
NARRATIVES: 1. The war in Ukraine is financed and used by the West to destroy Russia. 2. Russia is forced to defend itself in the face of the threats that the EU has created through Ukraine.
PURPOSE: To justify Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine; to strengthen the image of Russia as a state surrounded by external enemies using the myth of the besieged fortress.
Reality: Russia unilaterally started the war in Ukraine, and the West is helping Kyiv defend itself against the invasion
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: The West/EU is not funding the war in Ukraine; it is helping Kyiv defend itself against Russia's full-scale invasion that started on February 24, 2022. The goal of the Western states is to support the defense of Ukraine and the resilience of Ukrainian society faced with a technically better equipped and numerically superior enemy. The actions undertaken by the EU, the US, Great Britain and other Western states are in line with the norms of international law and the UN Charter, which gives Kyiv the right to self-defense and the other states - the right to support the militarily aggressed party.
Nobody in the West has any intention of destroying Russia. On the contrary, the Ukrainian side has repeatedly emphasized that the West’s help to Kyiv is dosed, in order to avoid Russia’s defeat , which could have unpredictable geopolitical consequences. Both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a number of Western politicians and political analysts have noted in recent years that there is no common strategy in Berlin, Paris, Washington and other capitals on how the war in Ukraine should end. The major Western military powers have acted gradually and cautiously: Ukraine has been supported, not to the extent to which it would’ve allowed it to defend Russia militarily, but just to resist.
Russia is not in a position to defend itself militarily from a Western aggression, because Moscow has not been attacked. Russia is the aggressor in this war. The Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, quoted by the Russian media, is trying to justify the invasion and present the victim as the aggressor, and the aggressor as the victim. In reality, Russia's mobilization and militarization of the economy is not for defensive purposes, is aimed at supporting the full-scale invasion of an independent state, Ukraine.
The requests from the EU and other Western states to Moscow are simple, and they have been adopted in a series of UN resolutions. The General Assembly, the largest and most democratic body of the United Nations, has made it clear that Russia is violating the fundamental principles of the organization and that the UN expects this behavior "to be corrected as soon as possible" by the immediate withdrawal of the Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine. Russia uses its veto power in the Security Council to prevent any action regarding the Ukrainian state, which is why the General Assembly took up this file. The firm stance of some states in the West, and especially NATO, is a consequence of Putin's war against the free world. Russia started by attacking Ukraine and by committing numerous war crimes, and only after sanctions were introduced and arms were delivered to Ukraine.
Veridica has debunked a series of false narratives regarding the nature of the war in Ukraine. The Russian propaganda claims that Kyiv will be forced by the war-financing West to attack the neighboring states loyal to the Russian Federation. The Russian media is trying to convince the public that the West is rejecting Moscow’s peace plan in order to destroy Russia. Various false narratives are being promoted on the Russian social media about the "special military operation" that saved Russia from NATO invasion and Ukrainian Nazism. The narrative about Ukrainians waiting to be rescued by Russia has often been promoted.
CONTEXT: Ramzan Kadyrov has been the president of the Republic of Chechnya since February 2007. He is a pro-Kremlin politician who is still in power due to his loyalty to and collaboration with Vladimir Putin. Kadyrov promotes all sorts of false narratives about the war in Ukraine on his Telegram channel (with over 2 million followers), supporting the Russian propaganda machine. Also, Chechen troops are fighting on the territory of Ukraine as part of the so-called special military operation.
