The Rhetoric of the Kremlin or the Propaganda Discourse in the Context of the War in Ukraine
The Rhetoric of the Kremlin or the Propaganda Discourse in the Context of the War in Ukraine

Summary/Abstract: The content analysis of Putin's speeches, 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 expansion or accession to Russia, including all forms of Western military threat to the Soviet East, as evidenced by the Kremlin's propaganda discourse. The Kremlin's discourse, in the context of the armed operations in Ukraine, has a symbolic capital through which it imposes its own perspective, because no symbolic power can exist without a symbolism of power (Bourdieu 112). It is about the discourse of power, constructed through symbolic resources, intended to be disseminated so that the Kremlin's conative force is even more strongly activated among Russian citizens. On the other hand, pragmatically, such a construction is also a message of the Kremlin's authority to Western countries.

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