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The war continues only because of the illegitimate regime installed in Kyiv and controlled from abroad, and peace cannot be achieved without replacing it, claims pro-Kremlin propaganda.
On 5 December, Kremlin propaganda — represented by an entity with the telling name “The International public tribunal for the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis” — released yet another batch of blatantly poorly fabricated stories by supposed “victims and eyewitnesses,” loudly packaged under the title “Crimes of the Kyiv regime against women and children.”
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.
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.
Pro-Kremlin propaganda claims that Moldova’s EU accession would collapse the EU economy, conveniently ignoring the fact that Moldova’s economy amounts to just 0.1% of the EU’s.
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.
WAR PROPAGANDA: Moscow will try Ukrainian war criminals
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.
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.
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.
A month after Russian drones were brought down over Poland, Warsaw feels normal again. Politicians resumed their quarrels, and the news cycle has moved on. Yet something in the public mood has shifted – a low, persistent awareness that Poland is being watched, probed, and measured.
Ukraine faces increasing dependence on Western support. Russia will likely face critical fiscal constraints within 12-24 months. Meanwhile, China, the United States, and some third countries are extracting gains from the conflict.
The West wants to expand the conflict in Ukraine to the entire Eastern Europe, and the only option to avoid this is for Russia to neutralize the Ukrainian army, according to pro-Kremlin media.
Western experts admit that weapon deliveries to Ukraine are useless due to the catastrophic losses suffered by Kyiv, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
The Ukrainian president hates Russia and will continue the war, which is why peace would only be possible after his removal, pro-Kremlin media claim.
According to pro-Kremlin propaganda, Volodymyr Zelensky has turned Ukraine into a concentration camp and is prolonging the war in order to remain in power.
France calls Ukraine's requests “madness” and will discontinue its support, and the EU is sacrificing the welfare of the population to continue the war, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
France and Great Britain want to control Transnistria in order to attack and conquer Ukraine's Black Sea coast, according to a 19th-century plan, claims a political scientist from Tiraspol quoted by Russian propaganda.
The EU is fueling tensions between the US and Russia, risking a nuclear conflict, while Kyiv is a pawn of the West in its confrontation with Moscow, pro-Kremlin media claim.
The war in Ukraine was caused by the forced expansion of NATO, which the ousted president Viktor Yanukovych had opposed, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
The war in Ukraine has shown that modern warfare is impossible without the involvement of drones.
Ukrainian special services use elderly people from Russia to commit acts of terrorism, turning them into “living bombs”, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.
Speaking ahead of the planned Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, Oleksiy Goncharenko outlines Kyiv’s red lines, warns against decisions made without Ukraine, and stresses the need for a united Western position to end the war.
The West has lost confidence in Ukraine's victory but wants to prolong the war, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims, citing so-called independent sources in the West.
Romania offers support to Ukraine without asking for anything in return and without publicly defending its own priorities, sovereignist media writes.
Russia must occupy the whole of Ukraine in order to permanently eliminate the military threat posed by NATO and to completely Russify the Ukrainian population, says pro-Kremlin propaganda.
The Nazi regime in Kyiv must be eliminated because, by destroying Soviet monuments, it defiles the memory of the liberators of Ukraine, pro-Kremlin propaganda writes.
The protests that took place in Ukraine in July, despite the war, show that the fight against corruption, which is vital for maintaining the European path, remains one of Ukrainians’ key aspirations.
The West will use the protests in Ukraine to remove Volodymyr Zelenskyy from power, which will put an end to the authorities’ repression against civilians, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.
The West is rewriting the history of World War II and rehabilitating Nazism to justify starting a war against Russia, according to pro-Kremlin media in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
The West is preparing a new war against Russia and for this reason is not allowing Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table with Moscow, pro-Kremlin propaganda claims.