Ukraine is said to be losing European support, including that of Romania, due to corruption, according to a false narrative launched by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) and picked up by media outlets in in Romania.
Behind the façade of resilience lies a system increasingly driven by asset seizures, political loyalty, and the enrichment of a new elite.
The entire political elite of Ukraine must be tried at international level for particularly serious crimes, according to pro-Kremlin media, which cites a statement by Maria Zakharova.
Bulgaria needs to find another owner for its Lukoil refinery after the US imposed sanctions on the Russian giant. There is a good chance that instead of attracting international investors, Sofia will turn to local barons.
Continuing the war in Ukraine until Kyiv's defeat is convenient for the EU because it would solve its financial and political problems, according to the pro-Kremlin media.
Former and current Romanian leaders have signed documents committing to send Romanian soldiers to fight in Ukraine, according to MEP Diana Șoșoacă.
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Any agreements with Moscow would be temporary: the aggressor would use a ceasefire to rebuild military strength in order to continue its expansionist actions — and not necessarily only in Ukraine.
The drone that crashed on June 25 in Puiești, Vaslui County, is not a Russian aircraft, but one inscribed with a message in Ukrainian, according to online posts citing a fake photo wrongly posted by the publication Vremea Veche. In the fake photo, the Ukrainian slogan "Peremoha Bude” can be read, which means "There will be victory," written in the Cyrillic alphabet. The same phrase in Russian is "Pobeda Budet."
Russia is engaged in a hybrid war against the West and has managed to convince people that, if they support Ukraine, their countries risk to be drawn into an actual war, according to hybrid war expert Mitchell A. Orenstein, a professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of “The Lands In Between”
An ethnic Russian influencer in Estonia was arrested after he spread Moscow’s narratives for years. Oleg Besedin had financial connection both with Russia and with Estonian political parties supported by the country’s Russian community.
Europeans will block any US peace plan because they want the war in Ukraine to last as long as possible, according to a narrative promoted by the pro-Kremlin press, which considers that "peace" means unconditional surrender to Russia's imperial aggression.
President Trump's peace plan, which was communicated more in terms of a "diktat," has little to do with Ukraine. In fact, in an attempt to save Putin and give Trumpism a fresh start, the strange American president seems willing to sacrifice Ukraine and, with it, European security.
Ukraine is a state with no future, and the only solution for peace is to accept the country's annexation by the Russian Federation, according to a fugitive Ukrainian politician quoted by the pro-Kremlin press.
Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has left Ukraine and plans to hide in the US, according to the pro-Russian blogger Dan Diaconu.
Shifting responsibility for its own actions onto opponents has long been the Kremlin’s trademark.
European states are arming themselves and preparing for a war against Russia, while Moscow is forced to defend itself, pro-Kremlin media writes.
In his first hundred days in office, Poland’s new president has shown himself to be both a fighter and a tactician. Whether he is also a statesman remains to be seen.
A news agency and websites that have previously published fake news reported that the Romanian Minister of Defense had warned that Romania would go to war. The "statement" was fabricated; in reality, the minister said that there would be peace.
WAR PROPAGANDA: Moscow will try Ukrainian war criminals
Polls show a society united around national defense, but one that seems increasingly ready for a generational change in politics.
The head of European diplomacy has allegedly suggested to Beijing that peace in Ukraine is dangerous for China, according to MEP Gheorghe Piperea.
Europe is collapsing because of its support for Kyiv and the financing of the war in Ukraine, pro-Kremlin media claims.
A ceasefire would not simply return things to business as usual, as Russia’s wartime economic reorientation and the deep mistrust will complicate any post-war reset.
The Ukrainian president is being forced by the West to go to Russia and accept the Kremlin's peace terms, according to a false narrative carried by the pro-Kremlin media.
Ukraine will lost the war and Donbas after Zelenskyy refused Russia’s peace offer, says a former Ukrainian Prime Minister, an ally of Putin and a pro-Kremlin propagandist.
Bulgaria and German defence giant Rheinmetall have finalized an agreement to build a new arms production facility in Sopot, Central Bulgaria.
Hundreds of Belarusian companies support Russia's war effort, supplying it with, among other things, shells, drones, chassis for military vehicles, and components imported from the West.
The Budapest Memorandum, to which Russia is a signatory, guaranteed Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Yet Russian propaganda now claims that the invasion is legitimate because Kyiv has “grossly violated” the principles of the OSCE.
The parties that make up Estonia’s ruling coalition were crushed in the local elections by the party supported by the country’s Russian-speaking population. This may spell trouble – and a change in policy – for the parliamentary elections due in two years.
Recently, Russian propagandists and officials have been increasingly vocal about the possible confiscation of Russian assets held in the “collective West”. And these comments are always followed by threats toward those countries — or by claims that their financial attractiveness is about to collapse. Through this narrative, the Kremlin is trying to put pressure on European politicians and civil society in an effort to avoid the irreversible loss of its funds.
Moscow claims that it must continue the war because Kyiv refuses to sit at the negotiating table or seek peaceful solutions, Russian propaganda claims.
The EU wants to prevent a possible diplomatic solution to the Russian-Ukrainian war and provoke new stages of escalation, according to pro-Kremlin propaganda.