This thesis is spread by Russian propagandists in the light of the events around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and the murder of Daria Duhina. Moreover, the Russian State Duma planned to recognize Ukraine as a terrorist state at a meeting on August 25. The corresponding bill has already been introduced by Russian politicians. Calling Ukraine a terrorist state, Russia uses disinformation messages aimed at justifying the invasion of Ukraine, which the Russian Federation continues to call not a war, but a special operation. According to EUDisinfo, Russia continues to come up with various explanations and reasons for its aggression.

According to the Center for Counteracting Disinformation, the Russian Defense Ministry said that over the past 24 hours, the Armed Forces of Ukraine had carried out large-caliber strikes on the ZNPP area seven times, and in Kaliningrad, a “saboteur” with a bomb was detained, who admitted that his plans were coordinated with Azov. In fact, it was Russia that started the war against Ukraine, brutally killing Ukrainians and Ukrainian women, destroying Ukrainian cities and villages. It is Russia that can be called a terrorist state, especially after rocket attacks on shopping centers in Ukrainian cities, which killed dozens of civilians. Spreading the thesis that Ukraine is a terrorist state, this is not the first time that Russia shifts responsibility for its own and seeks to justify itself in the eyes of other states. Also, in this way, the Russian Federation wants to divert the attention of the world from its own war crimes on the territory of Ukraine.