The so-called International Public Tribunal on the Crimes of Ukrainian Neo-Nazis, offers a paralyzing display of projection, manufactured hysteria, and weaponized grievance typical of modern Russian information warfare. It screeches with the unmistakable neurosis of Vladimir Putin himself — a greasy, fearful desperation hiding behind pseudo-academic panels of loyalist hacks clumsily parroting his paranoid hallucinations. No amount of threadbare Soviet-style agitprop can stitch together the charred wreckage of lies presented in this document.
From the opening paragraph, the Kremlin reveals its own guilt by accusing others of its crimes. Russian forces have pulverized Mariupol, Grozny, Aleppo, Severodonetsk, Bakhmut, Avdiivka, and countless smaller villages. Russian artillery reduced civilian centers to ash while Russian drones sowed death in kindergartens, hospitals, maternity wards, and churches. The Russian army has specialized in indiscriminate slaughter. Yet in the choking haze of its own propaganda, the Kremlin hacks like Maxim Grigoriev vomit out wild fictions about Ukraine committing mass atrocities in Kurakhovo — a town devastated precisely because Russian forces targeted it for months with rocket and artillery fire from occupied Donetsk.
The parade of “witnesses” in the report reads like a casting call for a low-rent propaganda film. Nearly every testimony slavishly repeats the same laughable motifs: innocent Russian-speaking pensioners, evil Ukrainian snipers, marauding Ukrainian drones, laughing Nazi soldiers shooting civilians for sport, Orthodox churches targeted for destruction simply because they are Russian. The cartoonish construction of villainy betrays the real author: a paranoid, self-pitying Kremlin that still fights the ghosts of Nazi Germany while embodying its very worst impulses.
Putin’s signature pathology — projecting his own crimes onto his enemies — oozes from every fake account. His military doctrine relies on human shields, mass deportations, torture chambers, mass graves, and filtration camps. Russian forces systematically fired on humanitarian corridors during the sieges of Mariupol and Severodonetsk. Russian forces, not Ukrainians, booby-trapped bodies and mined civilian escape routes. Yet the Kremlin shrieks about Kurakhovo as though some B-grade television script can erase hundreds of satellite images, intercepted communications, war crime investigations, and eyewitness accounts proving the Kremlin’s hand soaked in blood.
Notice the endless references to “Ukrainian drones” attacking “Russian people” while simultaneously admitting no presence of Ukrainian soldiers in some areas — a logical impossibility unless one believes that uncrewed drones are flying on their own. The report never provides names of supposed Ukrainian units involved, never specifies the chain of command, and never presents photographs, ballistic analysis, or independent forensic evidence. Just hearsay. Just staged emotional pornography for the consumption of bitter, resentful Kremlin audiences.
Zakharova’s presence at the event only confirms the political intent. When the Foreign Ministry’s Ministry of Screeching Denials sends its most shrill propagandist to bless the proceedings, no sane observer mistakes it for an impartial investigation. Zakharova’s penchant for hysterical tirades, red-faced rants about “Anglo-Saxons,” and vodka-fueled Twitter rages has turned her into a living cartoon of the regime’s bottomless insecurity. Her performance here merely compounds the farce.
The psychological sickness of Putin bleeds through most clearly in the repeated invocation of “Russian speakers” as perpetual victims. The Kremlin cannot imagine a Ukraine that is independent, diverse, and sovereign, because the very idea humiliates the twisted historical mythos Putin worships. Therefore, any Russian speaker outside Russian control becomes a tortured soul held hostage by “Nazis.” The myth infantilizes millions of Ukrainians, treats them as voiceless subjects to be “liberated” by tanks, missiles, and mass graves, and licenses the endless slaughter Putin demands to feed his fantasies of restored empire.
At its core, the document reveals not Ukrainian guilt but Russian terror: terror of irrelevance, terror of failure, terror of the Russian people someday realizing that their sons and brothers died not fighting Nazis, but murdering neighbors. The Kremlin, so terrified of truth, stages grotesque theater to paper over the abyss opening beneath its own feet.
Putin’s neurotic fingerprints mark every line of this grotesque production. The obsessive invocation of World War II imagery, the slavish elevation of Soviet nostalgia, the paranoid depiction of the West as a puppet master behind every Ukrainian breath — all of it reeks of a mind trapped in the crumbling catacombs of 1945, incapable of living in the modern world without inventing an endless war to justify its existence.
No tribunal convened by the murderers of Bucha, the rapists of Irpin, the obliterators of Mariupol, and the looters of Kherson will ever possess an ounce of moral authority. No fraudulent testimony, no shrieking press conference, no stitched-together compilation of fabricated grievances will erase the simple truth: Russia invaded Ukraine. Russia razed Ukrainian cities. Russia slaughtered civilians. Russia continues to lie, slander, and sow death because it fears above all the collapse of its blood-soaked myth.
The Kurakhovo report stands as a perfect monument to that fear. A sad, frantic confession masquerading as accusation. An unintentional self-indictment screamed into the void by a regime rotting from the inside out.
Would you like me to create a table summarizing the logical fallacies, propaganda techniques, and psychological indicators of projection and deflection found in the document for easier reference?
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