title: Untruthful claims, real war, dire consequences: understanding the narrative of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
abstract: This paper contributes to the scholarship on a war which was started in 2014 with the Russian annexation of the Crimea and combat in Eastern Ukraine. Most of the studies fell short of labelling it correctly, revealing causes and suggesting possible solutions because they did not consider the conflict in the broader perspective of Russian-Ukrainian relations. One of the reasons of this failure is a narrative about Ukrainian society which is created and spread by Russian politicians, diplomats, ac
journal: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe