The State Department “exposed Moscow’s lies” about Ukraine and named the main Russian propagandists

Russia is conducting a disinformation campaign in the media to “make the world believe that the aggressor is really Ukraine, which wants to unleash a global conflict.” This was stated in the US State Department, publishing on the official website of the department examples of Moscow’s “false statements” regarding Kiev.

The State Department allegedly received this information from the Russian military and intelligence structures that are participating in the information war against Ukraine.

“False” the State Department called the statement that “Ukraine and Kiev are the aggressor in Russian-Ukrainian relations.” Thus, Moscow puts the blame on the victim, Ukraine, and accuses it of Russian aggression, the State Department notes. They also consider another “statement” of Russia to be incorrect: “The West is pushing Ukraine to participate in the conflict.” According to the State Department, it was “Moscow that initiated the current crisis by deploying more than 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, while no such military operations were carried out on the Ukrainian side of the border.”

The United States also considers false the statements of the Russian authorities that “the deployment of Russian military forces is just the movement of troops across its territory”, and that “Russia is protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine”. The State Department is confident that “there is no reliable information that any ethnic Russians or people who speak Russian are under threat from the Ukrainian government.”

Finally, the State Department also dismisses Russia’s claim that “NATO threatens Russia’s security with the prospect of Ukraine’s NATO membership” as false. “NATO is a defensive alliance whose goal is to protect its members. NATO has never promised not to accept new members. NATO expansion is not directed against Russia,” the State Department said in a statement.

It also lists “critical elements in the Russian ecosystem of disinformation and propaganda.” According to the department, these are the Russian TV channel RT and the Sputnik agency, which “use the “look of ordinary international media to support the Kremlin’s foreign policy goals through disinformation and propaganda.”

The leadership of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA has already asked “not to shift from a sore head to a healthy one”, noting that against the backdrop of the virtuosic and massive dissemination of propaganda and disinformation by the United States, the only thing left for the Russian media is to just do their job: publish facts and expose lies of the States”, RIA Novosti quotes.