Nickname “Butcher”: Medvedev rails against new Ukraine army chief – “contempt and disgust”. “Bandera Traitor” alludes to a central Russian propaganda narrative in the Ukraine War: the claim that Ukraine was allegedly ruled by fascists.
Expert: Russia exaggerates Bandera's role to create "ideological justification" for war in Ukraine. Medvede breathes the Putin spirit of Great Russian nationalism onto Oleksandr Syrsky.