Russian propaganda is spreading multiple manipulations regarding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s statement that the U.S. provided Ukraine with certain types of weapons before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f According to propagandists, Blinken\u2019s remarks supposedly confirm that Ukraine was preparing for a large-scale war against the so-called DPR, LPR, and Russia. Kremlin-controlled media are using this narrative to justify the initiation of the \u201cspecial military operation.\u201d Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova made similar claims.<\/p>\n
In reality, these claims are a clear manipulation. Ukraine had no plans for offensive operations. The U.S. provided weapons to Ukraine in 2021 after it became apparent that Russian forces were amassing near the border in preparation for an invasion. Blinken confirmed that the U.S. supplied defensive weapons, including Stinger anti-aircraft systems and Javelin anti-tank missiles, not for aggression, but for defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Russian propaganda is spreading multiple manipulations regarding U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken\u2019s statement that the U.S. provided Ukraine with certain types of weapons before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion. \u25ab\ufe0f According to propagandists, Blinken\u2019s remarks supposedly confirm that Ukraine was preparing for a large-scale war against the so-called DPR, LPR, and Russia. Kremlin-controlled media are using…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}