The Rhetoric of the Kremlin or the Propaganda Discourse in the Context of the War in Ukraine
Journal: Analele Universităţii "Ovidius" Constanţa
Year: 2022

The content analysis of Putin's speeches 1 , in the present work, aims to identify the propaganda techniques through which the Kremlin's rhetoric tries to justify the war in Ukraine, which broke out on February 24, 2022.Russia's military attack in Ukraine follows the trajectory of the March 18, 2014, annexation of Crimea, only the Kremlin's discourse denies the concepts of war and annexation and replaces them with the term "special military operation" 2 , liberation from NATO's eastward military