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.
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.
Article 58 - Precautions against the effects of attacks
The Parties to the conflict shall, to the maximum extent feasible:
…
(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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