Manipulation of historical facts as an element of justification of Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine

Abstract

The study describes the manipulation potential of twisting historical facts as an element of justifying Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. To illustrate, the speech of president-dictator Putin on February 24, 2022, where he announces the beginning of a full-scale war against Ukraine, is taken. The study reveals the dominant distorted facts of the period of the Russian-Ukrainian war, which can also function in the domestic information space, but first of all they are a tool of the Russian information war aimed at the residents of the Russian Federation in order to justify the attack on Ukraine.