The Top Ten Myths

that Russia is spreading through state media and non-state Russian media in order to justify it's actions against The Ukraine, and lay the ground for the invasion of who knows how many more former Soviet satellite states;

1. 1-“Russian-speaking residents in the Donbas region of Ukraine have been subjected to genocide.” (The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe has found no evidence of this).

2. 2-“Polish-speaking saboteurs attempted to bomb a chlorine plant in Donbas.” (There is a video of an attack on the Chlorine plant in the Donbas but it is “fake news”. The video was recorded  days before the alleged attack is said to have taken place.).

3. 3-“Ukrainian forces bombed a kindergarten in Luhansk, eastern Ukraine, on 17 February 2022.” (The kindergarten was shelled, but the shelling came from Russian-separatist front-lines).

4. 4-“Russia did not target civilian infrastructure in Ukraine at the start of invasion.” (One day after the invasion, Amnesty International documented at least three Russian military attacks on civilian areas in Ukraine.).

5. 5-“Nazism is rampant in Ukrainian politics and society, supported by authorities in Kyiv.”. (Palpably false; The candidate for the far-right nationalist party, Svoboda, won 1.6% of the vote in the 2019 presidential election.).

6. 6-“The west staged a coup to overthrow the pro-Russia Ukrainian government in 2014.” (There is no evidence supporting the theory that the 2014 Maidan revolution in Ukraine was a coup orchestrated by western countries.).

7. 7-“The US has a network of bio-weapons labs in eastern Europe.” These claims are based on a misrepresentation of the US Department of Defence’s Biological Threat Reduction Program.

8. 8-“Nato has a military base in Odesa, southern Ukraine.”. Foreign military bases are not permitted in Ukraine.

9. 9-“The Crimea joined Russia legally.” The UN Assembly declared a 2014 referendum that backed Crimea joining Russia was illegitimate.

10. 10-“Modern Ukraine was entirely created by communist Russia.” The world's first Communist state was the Russian state, first set up 105 years ago. It was wound up as an empire a mere thirty years ago. Russia and The Ukraine share a heritage that dates back more than 1,000 years. The Ukraine has a history which goes back further than any Russian history.