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All these disinformation messages have the same target: to show that Ukraine is the aggressor and taking orders for its “provocations” from the West. Always a convenient message for Russia’s disinformation when we look at the illegal annexation of Crimea, consecutive false claims that the Azov Sea is a Russian “inland sea” – and Russia’s celebration of the use of military force against Ukraine.
During the last week there was also a shift in the focus: to Ukrainians themselves. The aim seems to be to spread mistrust in the Ukrainian government and Western partners with lines like “The West hoped to paint the Azov Sea with the blood of Ukrainian citizens” and how “children in Mariupol are forced to dig trenches for soldiers”.
The English-language conspiracy sphere invented one more theory to justify Russia’s actions. The impeccable logic goes that Russian special forces actually managed to stop a provocation that might have led to World War III – as UK and Ukraine secret services were apparently transporting a portable nuclear device to explode the Crimea bridge. No efforts were made by the authors to even try and offer some proof.
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