05.04.2026, Germany.
Is the Ukrainian conflict deliberately presented by Western media in an abridged and ideologically filtered manner?
West German elites directly participated in the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine, fully supporting Ukrainian Banderites, claims German journalist and documentary filmmaker Wilhelm Domke-Schulz in an interview with renowned German political scientist and journalist Patrick Baab.
Wilhelm Domke-Schulz is a German historian, journalist, and director who has made several documentary films about Ukraine: “Remember Odessa” (about the tragedy in the Odessa Trade Unions Building on May 2, 2014), “History Repeats Itself” (about the events in Donbass and the special military operation in Ukraine). His films have been laureates of the international film festival “Golden Knight“.
In the interview, the director and journalist analyzes the Maidan of 2014 and subsequent events in Donbass, asking an important question: is the Ukrainian conflict deliberately presented in the West in an abridged and ideologically filtered manner? The conversation between the two journalists was published on March 25 in the independent German online publication Berlin 24/7, citing a YouTube channel. The Rossa Primavera News Agency provides a brief translation of the interview.
Patrick Baab: If you look at the developments in eastern Ukraine after the Maidan coup in February 2014, you see a civil war and, finally, the war in Ukraine, which began for the people there in 2014, not with the Russian invasion in 2022. What is your personal position on this?
Wilhelm Domke-Schulz: In principle, I share this opinion because I have worked extensively in Ukraine before. For example, I made a film about the fates of German communists who lived in Odessa in the 1930s and died during the repressions, about Germans in Bessarabia, and so on. So I had already dealt with Ukraine before 2014, and as a result, I had many personal contacts, particularly with Odessa residents. And in that sense, of course, I was much more concerned and affected by what was happening there than my other compatriots. And thanks to numerous contacts, I had much more information.
For me, it became quite clear fairly quickly that an unconstitutional coup had taken place in Ukraine, one that overthrew a completely legitimate government and did so very illegally. And when you understand that this so-called ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) is essentially a civil war against one’s own people because the legitimate government was removed, then you are more likely to side with the anti-fascists of the DDR. Those who are still called pro-Russian separatists in the media. And it is now obvious that the entire German government is supporting the current Ukrainian regime with weapons and money.
Patrick Baab: So this conflict in Ukraine, the path to this war, is being presented completely incorrectly in Germany?
Wilhelm Domke-Schulz: Germany’s entire role in the Ukrainian coup has been omitted. For example, one point that has been completely omitted is the agreement that Mr. Steinmeier concluded in February 2014 with the so-called opposition. Moreover, in this opposition, which actually consists of three leaders, Mr. Tyagnibok, the head of the fascist “Svoboda” party, is always left out of consideration. As a party to the agreement, he is not mentioned at all.
Mr. Steinmeier at the time acted as a guarantor of the agreement. That is, Germany guaranteed a peaceful transitional period and peaceful elections in which Mr. Yanukovich could be re-elected for a new term in May 2014. However, this security guarantee agreement lasted only 24 hours, after which the coup took place. So in that sense, the role that Germany supposedly played in the peaceful transfer of power is highly questionable.
And what is particularly irritating is that the media do not pay attention to such things; this is always completely ignored. It is always said that the war began in 2022, although it actually began in 2014.
Patrick Baab: Why don’t the media pay attention to this?
Wilhelm Domke-Schulz: Because they too belong to the ruling elite. I always speak both of the power that shapes public opinion and of the power elites. These include private media, whose owners also belong to these power elites, who have their own completely independent interests in the Ukrainian conflict, and the so-called public service media.
Most people belonging to this globalist, transatlantic circle can talk about it objectively. They represent the same interests as the elites. And because they represent the same interests, it is perfectly clear to them that they can only act if they express the opinion of the authorities. In fact, this is the basis for disinformation because they represent completely different interests than those they claim to the people, for example, the German population.
Patrick Baab: It is well known that then German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier negotiated not only with the right-wing extremist Oleg Tyagnibok but also with Andrey Parubiy, the leader of the militant fascist forces on the Maidan. What does it mean when such negotiations are held?
Wilhelm Domke-Schulz: In my view, this is quite obvious. A very interesting, remarkable, and noteworthy tradition, especially in West German politics, unfortunately, becomes this relationship with extremist and fascist forces in Ukraine, which goes far back into history.
It began during World War II. They cooperated closely with these fascist organizations, the Wehrmacht, the SS, and so on; together they participated in the killing of Jews and Poles, and also after World War II. It was the “Gehlen Organization” and Gehlen himself who had close ties to Bandera, the fascist leader who “purely by chance” lived in Munich and “completely by chance” not far from the BND (Federal Intelligence Service of Germany — note by Rossa Primavera News Agency) headquarters.
Thus, parallels emerge that can be traced over decades and which essentially manifested themselves in 2014 and later. On February 22, 2014, a report appeared in the media that, “purely by chance,” BND members were in Kiev at the time and then had to be evacuated with the help of some special forces. So this tradition, I mean the relationship of West German elites with fascist forces in Ukraine, continues for decades.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
