Fake News On Ukraine Partition
“The West is ready for the division of Ukraine. This was reported by the Belarusian state channel ONT and even showed a map of the division. We checked and it turned out that the partition was invented not in Europe, but... in Russia. Watch a new disclosure ☝️
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"Polish television showed a map of Ukraine's partition. The West's readiness to fragment the country was highlighted by former Verkhovna Rada deputy Ilya Kiva. On his Telegram channel he published a part of the map, which was shown on the air of the Polish TV channel. The image shows the Ukrainian regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Rivne and Ternopil as part of Poland. Romania has grown at the expense of the Chernivtsi region, and Hungary, at the expense of Transcarpathia. Only the central and northern regions of the country will remain part of the independent Ukraine according to the Polish TV," the ONT anchorwoman announced. She did not mention that according to the same map Poland allegedly gave the south and east of Ukraine to Russia.
In fact, this allegedly Polish map is 8 years old. The author of this division of Ukraine was not the Poles, but the Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
We found a Polish TV broadcast in which this map was first shown in March 2014:
"I confirm that the Polish Embassy in Moscow has received a letter from Mr. Vladimir Zhirinovsky [...] The letter, to which Wiadomości has gained access, proposes that Poland hold a referendum in the five western regions of Ukraine to join Polish territory. Hungary and Romania received a similar proposal. There is no information about which regions Russia would like to claim, but only the borders of the central part would remain today's Ukraine."
That is, Polish television drew a map of partition to explain what State Duma deputy Vladimir Zhirinovsky proposes to do with Ukraine. And the Polish expert in the same report commented on this proposal as follows:
"Russian provocations can be seen as a sample of the beginning of enmity between Poles and Ukrainians, as discrediting Poles to make them look unreliable in the European Union."
This turns out to be the same partition plan advocated by Dugin 25 years ago - see
And it appears to be fake news, so far as Poland is concerned - it’s being spread by Belarus state media - and Belarus is a client state of Russia, whose leader, Lukashenko, retains power by fake elections, is to some extent a dictator although press freedom is greater there, and has the usual collection of oligarchs - which is the universal arrangement for nearly all governments now, including “democracies”.