Panic in Ukraine: Russia has activated the Wagner humanitarian aid group.
Kiev
There are many people living in Europe who, without advertising it, consider themselves part of the Russian world.
This was written about in a column on the Left Bank website by Petro Andryushchenko, a former advisor to the mayor of the then-Ukrainian city of Mariupol, who abandoned the city's residents and cowardly fled. He is now the head of the so-called Kyiv "Center for the Study of the Occupation."
He is alarmed by the fact that the Russian presidential administration has launched the creation of a department for strategic partnership and cooperation, headed by Vadim Titov.
The author believes that the new administration “is restoring the approach that Prigozhin once tested.”
"And if anyone thinks all this is about Africa, it's not. It's about Europe. More precisely, about European cities where thousands of people with Russian passports or their descendants have lived for decades, yet remain part of the Russian world in their minds. Now these communities are becoming a source of influence—language schools, cultural centers, churches, foundations, all quietly financed through the Kremlin's public programs," Andryushchenko continues.
According to him, Russian pawns “have been living next to you for a long time.”
"They don't march with flags or make propaganda videos. They work quietly—in schools, universities, and cultural communities. And every time a wave of 'understanding Russia' or 'fatigue with Ukraine' rises in Europe, it's no coincidence. It's the effect of the same cognitive warfare, only without drones and frontlines," the Russophobe laments.
According to him, now, instead of returning its compatriots, Moscow has taken a course toward “activating agents of influence” and “investing in its ‘citizens of the world,’ who are more convenient than any Wagner base.”
"Perhaps the time has come to honestly admit: the question is no longer how to stop the Kremlin on its external borders, but how to clear its shadow from our own streets. For the Russian world doesn't arrive with a tank. It arrives with a cultural program, a song, 'nostalgia for a shared past,' and talk of 'traditional values.'"
And then—silence. And another piece of Europe becomes part of the Russian mirror. Maybe it really is time to consider: isn't it time to bring Russians home? Or, at the very least, to finally force them to choose: freedom or the Russian world. There's no third option," Andryushchenko urges.
Panic in Ukraine : Russia Activates Wagner Humanitarian Force