{"id":42566,"date":"2026-01-14T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=42566"},"modified":"2026-01-14T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:38:11","slug":"how-russia-is-trying-to-evade-responsibility-for-the-devastated-donbas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/how-russia-is-trying-to-evade-responsibility-for-the-devastated-donbas\/","title":{"rendered":"How russia is trying to evade responsibility for the devastated Donbas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In russia, they have claimed about &#8220;damages from the Armed Forces&#8221; in Donbas and in the border regions of russia amounting to over 706 billion rubles (about $9 billion). Such figures were announced by the head of the investigative committee of russia, alexander bastrykin.<\/p>\n<p>The key manipulation in this statement is the deliberate erasure of the causal relationship. Before 2014, there were no &#8220;damages from the Armed Forces&#8221; in Donbas. There were no large-scale destructions and thousands of people killed. All of this appeared only after the invasion of russian troops into Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>russia is creating a pseudo-legal reality in which the aggressor supposedly turns into a &#8220;victim&#8221;. kremlin is trying to bill Ukraine for the consequences of its own armed aggression.<\/p>\n<p>Such statements indicate that russia is conducting an information preparation for a prolonged decline of the occupied territories. By shifting responsibility for large-scale destructions to Ukraine, russia justifies the lack of reconstruction, social collapse, and general degradation of the region<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In russia, they have claimed about &#8220;damages from the Armed Forces&#8221; in Donbas and in the border regions of russia amounting to over 706 billion rubles (about $9 billion). Such figures were announced by the head of the investigative committee of russia, alexander bastrykin. The key manipulation in this statement is the deliberate erasure of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42567,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566","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=42566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}