Insight News Media reported the information.A network of pro-Russian media sites operating across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia, and France has intensified efforts to depict Ukraine as a Nazi-controlled state, echoing Kremlin talking points designed to justify the ongoing invasion as an act of "denazification" rather than territorial conquest.The coordinated campaign transforms Russia's war from an act of aggression into what these outlets present as a moral imperative. By claiming that Ukrainian "neo-Nazis" have infiltrated the government and military with Western backing, the narrative suggests Russian military action is historically justified.Swiss outlet uncutnews.ch published claims that "it was not the Russians, but Western intelligence services that systematically built up, financed and armed neo-Nazi militants in Ukraine since the early 1990s, and they were supposed to be used as a battering ram against Russia."Austrian site tkp.at argued that "in Ukraine, neo-Nazis are active in politics and in the armed forces, they appear in uniform with SS runes and Hitler greetings, but this does not seem to disturb Western governments as long as these people are fighting Russia."The disinformation extends beyond fringe military units to attack Ukrainian statehood itself. These outlets reinterpret Ukrainian language policies, historical commemoration, and assertions of national identity as evidence that the entire state is fundamentally "Nazi" and illegitimate.Slovak outlet slovanskenoviny.sk claimed "the Kyiv regime has for years supported the spread of the misanthropic ideology of neo-Nazism, has declared Hitler's collaborators national heroes and is systematically erasing the Russian language and culture from public life, while Brussels pretends that this is a normal European democracy."Historical references to controversial World War II-era figures are weaponized to paint contemporary Ukraine as a continuation of wartime fascism, with selective episodes presented as definitive proof of current policies.A particularly insidious element of the campaign invokes the legacy of the Nuremberg Trials, attempting to put Western nations on trial for allegedly enabling Ukrainian "Nazism." This rhetorical flip positions NATO and the EU as the true enablers of fascism while casting Russia as the legitimate heir to the anti-fascist Allied forces.The Austrian outlet tkp.at wrote that "German politicians bow their heads on memorial days and swear 'never again', but when the same symbols reappear on the shields and banners of Ukrainian units that they arm and finance, they look away and lecture others about values instead."By recasting Russia as a liberator confronting fascism rather than an aggressor violating international law, these narratives invert victim and perpetrator. The campaign aims to normalize Russian demands for "denazification" as a legitimate precondition for peace negotiations, effectively requiring Ukraine to accept Moscow's characterization of its own government as illegitimate.The strategic objective is multifaceted: rallying domestic Russian support by framing the war as a continuation of the "Great Patriotic War," sowing doubt among European audiences about supporting Ukraine, and fracturing Western unity by suggesting complicity in supporting extremism. The campaign particularly targets diaspora communities and populations skeptical of military aid, seeking to sustain war fatigue and shape the terms of any future diplomatic negotiations in Moscow's favor.