09 September 2026
(PHOTO: AFP)
Russian officials in occupied Crimea used “Solidarity Day in the Fight Against Terrorism” to spread propaganda about Ukraine.
According to Krym.Realii, they accused the Ukrainian army of allegedly attacking civilians and called Kyiv a “terrorist regime.”
Sergey Aksyonov, the Gauleiter of occupied Crimea, claimed that the peninsula and Russian regions are allegedly attacked daily by “Banderites,” and said Ukraine’s goal is to intimidate the population and spread panic.
Vladimir Konstantinov, speaker of Crimea’s occupation parliament, claimed that terrorizing the civilian population has allegedly become “part of Ukraine’s state policy.” He also spread claims about alleged mass killings of Russian-speaking and Orthodox Christians in Ukraine.
These statements are part of narratives long used by Russian propaganda about “Ukrainian Nazis,” the “Kyiv regime,” and the alleged terrorist nature of the Ukrainian government. The Kremlin uses such rhetoric to justify its aggression against Ukraine.
At the same time, while accusing Ukraine of striking civilian targets, the occupying authorities in Crimea fail to mention the military and infrastructure facilities located near the sites of the strikes.
In particular, after a drone crashed into a high-rise building in Kerch on August 7, Aksyonov claimed there had been an “enemy attack” on the residential building, which resulted in the deaths of two people.
Krym.Realii found that located near the building are a Russian National Guard military compound, docking facilities for boats patrolling the Kerch Strait, as well as a seaport and the “Fregat” shipyard. Therefore, there is no basis for claiming that the residential building was the only possible target of the attack.
At the same time, Aksyonov and Konstantinov regularly repeat claims about an alleged “terrorist regime” in Kyiv and “Ukrainian Nazis.” Russian propaganda has been spreading such claims since 2014.
Ірина Глухова