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This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project.
Britain announced new military aid to Ukraine in early April of over 510 million euros, but not because it wants the war to continue, but to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s brutal attacks, which are clearly not stopping, although Russia is supposedly holding some kind of peace talks. Proof of this is the massacre that Russia committed with the missile attack on Sumy on April 13, 2025, which killed 32 people, including two children. On May 7, Russia attacked Kyiv with drones and missiles a few hours before the three-day ceasefire announced by Putin on May 9, Victory Day over fascism, killing at least two people
We analyze a Facebook post that says:
Tell me one nation in history that got involved with the British and had use of that! In modern Western history, there is no greater evil than Britain!
Because of them, Ukraine continues to bleed unnecessarily! Didn’t we learn a lesson in Aegean Macedonia!? Are we normal!?
It is not true that Ukraine continues to bleed because of Great Britain.
The narrative that Europe, the West, started the war in Ukraine and that Western countries are the ones who want the war to continue and blood to be shed is not new and it came from the Kremlin’s kitchen, which wants to amnesty itself from the military invasion, calling it a “special military operation.”
Support for Ukraine is consistent with its right to self-defense. It is incorrect to say that the EU or any European country provoked the military invasion, much less that European countries want the war to continue.
Russia launched its war against Ukraine without being threatened by Ukraine or any other country in Europe. On February 24, 2022, Russian troops launched an attack on Ukraine ordered by President Putin, who announced a “special military operation” in the early hours of the morning despite warnings from world leaders that the move could lead to the largest war in Europe since 1945.
The attack was preceded by Russian President Putin’s decision on February 21, 2022, to recognize the independence of the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, which have been under the control of pro-Russian separatists since 2014. This decision allowed Putin to directly send Russian military units into Eastern Ukraine, where sporadic clashes between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian separatists were already underway.
After Russia attacked Ukraine, it began to defend itself because the citizens of Ukraine do not agree to be territorially taken over by Russia. Western countries play a supportive role in this.
At the beginning of April, Great Britain announced new military aid to Ukraine of over 510 million euros, but not because it wants the war to continue, but to help Ukraine defend itself from Russia’s brutal attacks, which are clearly not stopping, even though Russia is allegedly conducting some kind of peace negotiations.
Proof of this is the massacre that Russia committed with the missile attack on Sumy on April 13, 2025, which killed 32 people, including two children. On May 7, Russia attacked Kyiv with drones and missiles a few hours before the three-day ceasefire announced by Putin on the occasion of May 9, Victory Day over fascism, in which at least two people were killed.
On May 18, Ukraine said Russia had carried out its largest drone attack since the start of its full-scale invasion, targeting several regions, including Kyiv, where a woman was killed.
Putin presented the idea of holding talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul, after previously rejecting a proposal by European heads of state and government and Ukrainian President Zelensky to declare a 30-day ceasefire on May 12. Instead, he suggested to Ukraine that direct talks between Kyiv and Moscow continue “without preconditions” on May 15 in Istanbul.
After this, Zelensky proposed meeting directly with Putin in Istanbul, which Putin refused.
The talks only agreed that Kyiv and Moscow would exchange 1,000 prisoners.
According to this, it is obvious that Putin has no intention of stopping the war, this is also supported by the fact that on April 1, he signed a decree on spring mobilization, which orders 160,000 citizens to be called up for military service in the period from April 1 to July 15, which is the largest number of conscripts in Russia since 2011.
The spring call for a year of military service comes months after Putin said Russia needed to increase its military to nearly 2.39 million soldiers, including increasing the number of active-duty personnel to 1.5 million, an increase of 180,000 over the next three years.
How Putin rejected the peace agreement for Ukraine initiated by Trump, continuing attacks on civilians, read in the extensive analysis by Truthmeter.mk.
Great Britain is ready to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, which indicates that this country stands for peace in Ukraine, and not for the continuation of the war, as the post we are analyzing claims.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for peace in Ukraine on May 15 in Tirana, following negotiations in Istanbul between Kyiv and Moscow, accusing Russia of “procrastination and playing games.”
What’s happened today is further evidence that it’s Putin who is dragging his feet. It is Putin who is causing the delay in a ceasefire. Ukraine has long been clear, several months ago now, that they would have a 30-day unconditional ceasefire, and we have long said that it’s Putin who is standing in the way of that peace, Starmer said of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s non-participation in peace talks in Turkey.
From all of the above, we can conclude that the post we are analyzing is untrue.
