With a quick move, the camera zooms in on the map of Ukraine. One by one, pieces of Ukrainian territory get wolfed down by the EU member states, Hungary, Romania and Poland. "Kyiv's eccentricity has already split the country", the presenter explains intensively.
Since Transcarpathia belonged to Hungary prior to the beginning of the 20th century, Budapest wants to "regain control" of the region. "In the south it's not at all historically Ukrainian either" and "the Poles are keeping an eye on Ukrainian Galicia, Polissia and Volhynia", TV Channel Rossiya 1’s presenter concludes.
In the end, the Western aggressors are portrayed as having grabbed the whole of western Ukraine with just a rump state left around Kyiv.
Those behind the Russian disinformation campaign have quickly learned how to visualise their core false narratives. The state that really occupies territories in Ukraine - Russia - is blaming the West for its supposed ambition to do the same.
This is just one example in a row of similar instances of deceiving with maps.
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