An article published in the French newspaper La Croix explained that conspiracy theories are surprisingly emanating from Russia, in an attempt from Moscow to promote a vision of its interests.
The newspaper added that the words of the Russian leaders, starting with President Vladimir Putin and other officials recently, contain a great falsification of facts, as it put it.
She gave an example by saying that for Moscow, Ukraine is led by a group of Nazis who are working to oppress and persecute courageous Russian-speaking minorities, while Moscow shows itself in the guise of a peace force that is attacked by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Lacroix stated that "falsification of facts" may sometimes take imaginary dimensions, and she spoke in this context of the accusation that Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had previously made to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was a Nazi, at a time when everyone knows that Zelensky is a Jew.
Lavrov later retracted this accusation.
According to the French newspaper, the annexation of Ukrainian lands to Russia in a referendum was one of its aims to show Kyiv as the aggressor on "Russian lands", while the truth that the whole world knows is that Russia is the one who encroaches on Ukrainian lands.
Lacroix's article accused Russia of being keen on denying the facts, falsifying the facts, and adopting imaginary images of what is happening on the ground, which constitute the full elements of a nihilistic play of history in which the mobilization is only partial, and the military loss is a decisive victory.
The newspaper said that the Russian political vision is based on rearranging facts and events, creating new “facts” and promoting them by all means. In this context, it spoke about Russia’s accusation of the West, especially the Americans, of sabotaging Nordstream pipelines 1 and 2, while all accusing fingers point to Moscow, she said.