Patterns of Ukrainian propaganda about the Ukrainian crisis

[Dissident]

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In this article, I am going to analyze some patterns used by Ukrainian propaganda regarding Ukrainian crisis and Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine.

First of all, I would like to consider the thesis that the Military Operation is allegedly a consequence of some aggressive plans of V. Putin.​

Spoiler

Earlier this year, D. Trump stated at a press conference that the causes of the Ukrainian crisis had arisen long before V. Putin became President of Russia; see below the quote from a Reuters article:​

A big part of the problem is, Russia - for many, many years, long before Putin - said, 'You could never have NATO involved with Ukraine.' Now, they've said that. That's been, like, written in stone… then Russia has somebody right on their doorstep, and I could understand their feelings about that.​

In Ukraine and in the West, the beginning of the Ukrainian crisis is associated with the referendum in the Crimea, which took place in March 2014. But back in January 2008, three top leaders of Ukraine, President V. Yushchenko, Prime Minister Yu. Tymoshenko and the Chairman of the Parliament A. Yatsenyuk, had asked NATO to consider the possibility of Ukraine joining the NATO Membership Action Plan; see the Voice of America website.

Another typical statement of Ukrainian and Western propaganda is the claim that the Russian leadership allegedly planned to complete its Military Operation in five days.

Last year, the then US President D. Biden said during a debate with D. Trump:​

And listen to what he (V. Putin) said when he went in, he was going to take Kyiv in five days, remember?​

However, V. Putin never said this. Attempts to find a source of this quote lead to Western media, for example, to the UK's highest-circulation newspaper, the Daily Mail, citing a certain website, IStories; see the quote below:​

This led Putin to setting a target to take Kyiv in five days, and Mariupol in three, according to IStories.​

And the IStories website, in turn, referred to some unnamed sources

It is also necessary to mention the formulaic statements of Ukrainian and Western propaganda about destructions in populated areas during offensives of the Russian army.

However, it is not said that it has been the Kiev authorities who have decided to use the buildings of residential areas as defensive fortifications for their troops.

Although back in 1990, Ukraine had ratified the Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions which had been adopted in 1977; see below a quote from this Protocol from the official website of the International Committee of the Red Cross:​

Article 58 - Precautions against the effects of attacks

The Parties to the conflict shall, to the maximum extent feasible:
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(b) avoid locating military objectives within or near densely populated areas;
(c) take the other necessary precautions to protect the civilian population, individual civilians and civilian objects under their control against the dangers resulting from military operations.​

During World War II, Paris was not destroyed because the French army had left its capital before the capitulation of France, without placing machine guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc. on the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, etc.

But the Ukrainian army has decided to fight in residential areas.

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[shockedcanadian]

All nations engage in disinformation and influence campaigns. This doesn't change the fact that Russia attacked Ukraine. America did spend far more than other nations and countries in Europe needed to do more and even offer soldier if required.

Better to fight a nation on distant soil rather than your own if you refuse to assist.

That said, peace is the answer. G-d demands it. In the meantime, intelligence agencies and governments need to do better to protect their national security and prevent foreign nation influence from all corners of the globe.