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English-language, Russian-language, and Ukrainian-language Wikipedia largely copied Euromaidan narrative presented by the governments and the mainstream media in Ukraine and the West and omitted many scholarly studies whose findings and classification of Euromaidan differed from such narratives (See, for example, Euromaidan (2025) and Revolution of Dignity p. 12

The English, Ukrainian, and Russian-language Wikipedia generally follow the same narrative and the Western and Ukrainian governments and the mainstream media. But Wikipedia also claims that the Russian annexation of Crimea in spring 2014 was the start of the Russia-Ukraine war p.86

In contrast to Donbas, a separatist region in eastern Ukraine, Crimea avoided a violent conflict. Large sections of Ukrainian military, security service, and police forces on the peninsula switched their allegiance to the separatists and then to Russia, while others were blockaded and disarmed without fight by the Russian military and the Crimean selfdefense and returned to Ukraine. Wars involve armed fighting between conflict parties, and 1,000 casualty threshold is often used in political science and conflict studies to classify armed conflicts as wars. A few people were killed in Crimea during the annexation and the Russian military intervention in Crimea. Therefore, contrary to Wikipedia, the Crimea conflict cannot be classified as the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. p.94

However, English-, Russian-, and Ukrainian-language Wikipedia all call the war in Donbas a part of the “Russo-Ukrainian War.” The Wikipedia editors selectively and in politically biased ways relied on narratives promoted by the Western and Ukrainian governments and the media and a view of the minority of scholars, who denied the civil war in Donbas and called it the Russia-Ukraine war p.105

The representation of the far right in Ukraine in English-language Wikipedia largely reflected the dominant narratives of the Western media. There was systematic whitewashing of the Ukrainian contemporary and historical far right in the Ukrainian-language Wikipedia. This concerned in particular contemporary neo-Nazi and other far-right parties, organizations, and their leaders, such as Patriot of Ukraine, the National Corps, the Azov Battalion and the Azov Regiment, Svoboda, and the far-right involvement in the Maidan and Odesa massacres. There was similar whitewashing of the historical predecessors of the contemporary far right in Ukraine, in particular, the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the OUN leader Stepan Bandera, the UPA commander Roman Shukhevych, and the fascist origins of the “Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes” greeting, Nazi collaboration of the OUN and the UPA, and their involvement of the Nazi genocide of Jews, Ukrainians, Poles, Byelorussians, and Russians, and the ethnic cleansing of the Poles in Volhynia by the OUN and the UPA p.128