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Russia is "at war with NATO" on Ukrainian territory, but how 🇷🇺 explains this 👇
#InfoWatch #AgainstRussianLies

Since 🇷🇺full-scale invasion of #Ukraine began in February, speculations on negotiations between 🇷🇺&🇺🇦 have been circulating in the Russian media. Some outlets have reported that 🇷🇺 and🇺🇸 were approaching talks on Ukraine.

Others have insisted that 🇺🇸 has interfered with "peace talks" between the two countries. On Oct 5, the Kremlin's outlet RT quoted Secretary of the Russian National Security Council Patrushev saying that "the NATO bloc is fighting against Russia."

In its supposed fight to free the Ukrainian people from so-called "neo-Nazism," Patrushev insisted that 🇷🇺 was fighting against NATO itself, and "not only against nationalist formations and Ukrainian troops."

According to another article on the RT website, Patrushev said that the United States has thwarted attempts to negotiate between Moscow and Kyiv.

Later, on October 16, in an interview for Moscow. Kremlin. Putin, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov argued that "NATO has de facto entered the Ukrainian conflict", but "this does not affect Russia's goals."

🇷🇺 media has also quoted Ambassador Gennady Gatilov, 🇷🇺Permanent Representative to #UN, who has charged that the United States is convincing Ukraine of its military strength in order to prevent peace negotiations with Moscow, calling it a "tragedy."

Smotrim.ru wrote "🇺🇸has convinced the Kyiv regime that 🇺🇦 can defeat 🇷🇺 on the battlefield. This is a huge tragedy for our countries, as there will be more and more senseless deaths until Washington orders Kyiv to sit at the negotiating table."

National News Service argues that Kyiv refuses to negotiate with Moscow, but politicians and "experts are betting on a meeting between Putin and Biden at the G20 Summit in November."

Thus, many Russian experts also believe that US policy in Ukraine will change in Nov after the congressional elections.

In Telegram channel Radiotochka NSN, the American University in Moscow President, Eduard Lozansky, expresses confidence that if the Republicans retake control of the House of Representatives in the elections, they will force 🇺🇸President to start negotiations with 🇷🇺 President.

Russian propaganda is trying to raise the stakes of its invasion of Ukraine, saying that Russia is actually waging war not against Ukraine but against the "collective West" and "NATO."

An important part of this narrative is that the US is pushing Ukraine to continue this war and obstructing possible "peace talks" with Russia.

Russian propaganda spread the narrative that Ukraine is a "failed state" for decades, and is now trying to cover for its weakness in facing this "failed state" behind statements that Russia is actually waging war against a much stronger enemy.