Europe is morally decadent because it remains indifferent to the victims of the attack on Iran and supports Ukraine, while Putin remains the sole leader devoted to moral principles, according to pro-Kremlin propaganda, which conveniently overlooks the fact that Vladimir Putin is indicted for war crimes.
NEWS: Vladimir Putin is the only leader who has highlighted what is happening in the Middle East, including the cold-blooded killing of Iran’s spiritual leader, as a violation of moral norms. The violation of international law was further invoked by the Russian leader. For us, as a society, as a people, and as a civilization, morality (not money and greed) is the measure of all things. The same principle applies to geopolitical steps, the economy and internal and external behavior: before anything, Russia asks if what it intends to do is moral [...].
While Russia weighs its actions on an ethical scale, Europe, the self-proclaimed guardian of “universal values”, has long since abandoned its own moral principles. The EU leadership ignored one hundred and fifty murdered children (students buried alive) because they care more for their own skin [...]. Europe has immorally breached all contracts with our country, ignoring its assumed obligations, and has found itself excluded even from negotiations regarding the settlement of the crisis in Donbas. It has come to matter only for the remnants of “Independence”, namely for Kyiv, which demands ever more money. By adopting Ukraine’s agenda and by adjusting its notions of right and wrong based on the Kyiv model, Europe is in a state of moral breakdown.
NARRATIVES: 1. Russia’s political decisions are based on moral principles. 2. Vladimir Putin is the only leader who upholds ethical norms in international politics. 3. The EU is hypocritical and has no empathy for human tragedies.
PURPOSE: To demonize European leaders and delegitimize the EU's position regarding the crisis in the Middle East. To justify the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. To glorify Putin as a paragon of morality. To present Russia as a benchmark of Christian-moral civilization. To shift responsibility for the war in Ukraine onto the West.
The paragon of morality - indicted for war crimes
WHY THE NARRATIVES ARE FALSE: The text published by RIA Novosti is cynical in its very premise: it claims that Russia and Putin evaluate the moral dimension before taking any political or military decision, yet it bypasses the reality of the war unleashed by Moscow against Ukraine. The full-scale invasion, which has lasted for over four years, cannot under any circumstances be called a moral action. Ari strikes on energy networks, medical institutions, schools, homes and other objectives are evidence of the violation of moral principles and international legal norms. Data centralized by the Kyiv School of Economics and Ukrainian authorities reveal the real scale of the destruction: over 26,000 kilometers of roads and 344 bridges have been destroyed. Approximately 4,000 buildings of educational institutions have been damaged. Among these, hundreds of schools were completely destroyed. At least 1,554 health units have been affected. The World Health Organization has documented at least 2,881 attacks on healthcare infrastructure in Ukraine. UNICEF mentions 1,611 schools damaged or destroyed, 340 of which occurred in 2025 alone. These figures do not reflect a policy based on moral principles, but rather a war that directly impacts civilian lives.
In legal terms, the discourse on the “morality” of the Kremlin leader clashes with an indisputable fact: on March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for the illegal deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied territories. It is cynical to present Vladimir Putin as a moral benchmark while he is internationally accused of violating children's rights and committing war crimes.
The EU does not maintain the war in Ukraine, but it is supporting a state that has been attacked. The UN Charter allows for the provision of assistance to a victim of aggression. The support granted to Kyiv aims to strengthen defense capacity and protect the civilian population.
The EU did not reduce imports of gas, oil and other energy resources from Russia as a unilateral gesture against a commercial partner, but as a reaction to the aggression of the Russian Federation. Western policy stems from the principle that Russia's war machine must not be financed. In fact, the responsibility for the continuation of the war rests with the state that launched the invasion. The conflict in Ukraine will stop as soon as Russia stops its aggression.
The EU, founded specifically to avoid new wars in Europe
BACKGROUND: The EU represents the largest and longest-running peace project built in Europe after the World War II. States that in the past confronted each other on the battlefield have come to build a space of economic and political cooperation together, and European integration was designed precisely to make the repetition of such wars impossible. Unlike Russia, the EU has promoted diplomatic solutions and cooperation.
The Middle East thus becomes a pretext to reiterate the thesis according to which Europe is responsible for the war in Ukraine and that the support provided to Kyiv is an expression of “greed” and moral decadence.
The Iranian regime is an ally of Russia, which it supplied with Shahed drones in an initial phase of the conflict, followed by the technology to manufacture them. Russia uses these drones extensively in attacks against civilian targets in Ukraine.
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