Since February 24, the Center Against Disinformation of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has published only one publication on its website.

But it has it all.

The list includes SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich, along with the likes of right-wing French politicians Marine Le Pen and Éric Zemmour, and former Slovak prime minister Robert Fico, known for his pro-Russian views.

A total of 75 personalities from politics, science and other areas of public life were accused of spreading “narratives consistent with Russian propaganda”.

Nicholas Zimmerman

Editor in Politics.

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The allegations are not particularly detailed in the document published in mid-July.

In the case of Mützenich, there is only one key point next to his photo: that he spoke out in favor of a “truce”.

For many other protagonists, the list of behaviors criticized is longer.

For example, Republican US Senator Rand Paul is accused of saying that the United States should not help Ukraine, that the countries attacked by Moscow were part of Russia, and that Washington did not see Kiev's aspirations to join NATO should support.

Marine Le Pen accuses the Kiev authorities of promoting the need for cooperation with Russia and speaking out against arms deliveries to Kyiv.

Her right-wing rival in the recent French presidential election, Éric Zemmour, has been criticized for saying that Russia has never attacked anyone and that Ukraine should be neutral.

The authority seems to be following the German debates about the Ukraine war relatively closely.

Among the propagators of the Russian "narrative" she lists the pugnacious feminist Alice Schwarzer, who in May said about the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he does not stop "provoking". Also the political scientist Johannes Varwick, who also said that Russia was provoked is on the list.

His American colleague John Mearsheimer, who portrays the eastward expansion of NATO as one of the causes of Russia's war, also stands on it.

It is not known to what extent a mention would have practical consequences for those affected, such as an entry ban.

However, it does not appear that the government in Kyiv has made the list known abroad on a large scale.

The Slovak media, for example, only became aware of the entry by their former Prime Minister Fico this week.

SPD parliamentary group leader Mützenich does not want to comment on his naming.

A parliamentary group spokesman referred the FAZ to a list of statements intended to counteract the impression that Mützenich was spreading stories that conformed to the Kremlin.