Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Crimes de guerre de la fédération de Russie" in French language version.
« Sergeitsev’s article is a significant example of how the Kremlin’s claims that it is preventing genocide against Russian Ukrainians have transformed into open admissions about perpetrating genocide in Ukraine. As Susan Smith-Peter points out, we have now encountered a kind of twenty-first-century “postmodern genocide”: while accusing Ukraine of perpetrating genocide, Russia uses genocidal rhetoric and commits genocidal crimes itself, and, moreover, it “does not feel the need to hide [them].” Indeed, Sergeitsev’s explicit call for Russians to destroy Ukraine is shocking. Siding with Russia’s state propaganda rhetoric about “Nazi Ukraine,” Sergeitsev proposes to liquidate Ukraine as a state, including the very usage of the name “Ukraine,” because “Ukraine, as history has shown, is impossible as a nation-state, and attempts to ‘build’ one naturally lead to Nazism. »
« Rhetoric from Russia’s leadership stirs echoes of the irredentist nationalisms that played a part in sparking the world wars of the 20th century. In a 2021 article, President Putin portrayed Russians and Ukrainians as “one people – a single whole”, and “parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space … ” (Putin 2021). He reiterated these ideas in his February 21, 2022 speech announcing recognition of the breakaway republics, calling Ukraine “an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space” and detailing Ukraine’s prior history as part of the Russian Empire, and then of the Soviet Union. Putin went on to question at length Ukraine’s legitimacy as a state. »
« Rhetoric from Russia’s leadership stirs echoes of the irredentist nationalisms that played a part in sparking the world wars of the 20th century. In a 2021 article, President Putin portrayed Russians and Ukrainians as “one people – a single whole”, and “parts of what is essentially the same historical and spiritual space … ” (Putin 2021). He reiterated these ideas in his February 21, 2022 speech announcing recognition of the breakaway republics, calling Ukraine “an inalienable part of our own history, culture, and spiritual space” and detailing Ukraine’s prior history as part of the Russian Empire, and then of the Soviet Union. Putin went on to question at length Ukraine’s legitimacy as a state. »