Pro-Kremlin media write that the United States of America is allegedly gradually preparing for Ukraine’s final loss on the battlefield. Consequently, Western officials allegedly had a plan to move the capital of Ukraine to Lviv. The publications refer to the Asian Times.

The VoxCheck analysts investigated the case and explained that the author of the material about moving the capital of Ukraine had previously been noticed for spreading the pro-Kremlin agenda in the media. That is, there is no evidence that the United States “has” certain plans for Ukraine. For example, the author expanded his theses, saying that Ukraine is not capable of winning. Also in November 2023, he claimed that the US was going to replace Volodymyr Zelenskyi by staging a coup. However, such stuffing is baseless and has no evidentiary basis; it is rather playing along with the methods of Russian propaganda.

And in the end, the rhetoric itself, that the United States supposedly has some plans for the Ukrainian state that will be “implemented” without the latter’s consent or, at least, under pressure, is not new. Russian propaganda often pushes the narrative about so-called “external managers” in Ukraine. Allegedly, Ukrainian politicians are subject to these decisions without the right to appeal them. Any events occurring in Ukraine that are not in favor of Russia are allegedly caused by external control. This is how propagandists strive to create an image of a puppet country that cannot exist on its own. Let's say Ukraine constantly needs “protection”.

And they claim that most often, peaceful people who suffer from “external control” pay taxes “God’s know where”, zombified by “Western values” and literally lose the right to be heard. That is, they show that such an “impact” is not good and leads to stagnation in all spheres of people’s lives.

Thus, Russian propaganda seeks to protect itself from the West and Ukraine, in particular, by showing that partnership between states is impossible in modern conditions, because Western countries have selfish plans for any “foreign” lands. Of course, when Moscow turns the relevant political actors against itself, it is not surprising that it has few brothers left. Turning their vector partially towards Asia and dragging their allies with them, Belarus, Eritrea, Syria, and the DPRK are those countries, for example, that are actively blocking any legislative initiatives aimed at supporting Ukraine in the UN General Assembly. But previously, partnership relations with China, against the backdrop of the Ukrainian-Russian war, somewhat worsened. So how many of those faithful “comrades” remain in Russia, except for countries with undemocratic regimes, becomes a controversial issue.