I’m tired of hearing Russian propaganda repeated in the West
Russia has justified its invasion by saying the Ukraine army includes neo-Nazis and radical nationalism is a very strong sentiment in Ukraine. This idea was first pushed by Russian media during the 2014 Maidan uprising, when a small far-right party Right Sector was active for some time. Russian TV depicted members of that party as some of the main drivers of street protests and the political movement, with large support among Ukrainians.
The 2014 separatist movement in Donbas was inspired and organized by citizens of Russia and its FSB agents, who started taking control of police departments and city councils. Russians tortured and killed Ukrainians in Donbas. The separatist movement would never have turned violent without support from Russia.
The problem was that Russia’s aggression toward Ukraine decreased the number of pro-Russian voters and the speaking of the Russian language. A survey, conducted in December, 2018, by Rating Group Ukraine, showed that only 2 per cent of Ukrainians consider that status of the Russian language to be an important issue.
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