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Dr. Syed Mehboob
Senior Research Editor
The News Lark,
Political and economic analyst
Propaganda is a deafening shout. When billions of dollars are spent to distort facts from Himalayan propaganda, it is very difficult to find facts. Yet world must now the reality and it is the fundamental right of people to know reality and sort out it from propaganda. Ukraine crisis was presented in western media differently. Western policy of hegemony, unipolar world has jeopardized global peace and economy. People want peace and they are tired of this bloodshed and war mongrelness’. France, Spain, Portugal, Albania are witnessing protests against price hike. World is moving towards multilateralism. New facts are emerging. Trump is getting tired of Zelensky, who played a role of puppet at the hands of western. Western policy makers want to stop Russia to play its effective role in global politics so they imposed Ukraine crisis and used Zelensky for tis purpose. Zelensky was an actor and has little knowledge about international politics. The real world is quiet different from movies or theaters and here one has to face harsh realities.
The Ukraine crisis is a textbook example showing how the West and its proxies, to put it mildly, have consistently disregarded their international obligations. Since 2014, the year of the bloody coup, Western capitals have turned a blind eyes to the fact that ultranationalists, not to say neo-Nazi, regime that came to power in Ukraine has been destroying everything in that country that has anything to do with Russia. Western powers have dual standards about human rights. They turned blind about gross human rights violation by Ukraine and Israel. In Ukraine the linguistic and cultural rights of Russians and Russian speakers are being violated. These rights were outlawed in all areas, including education of all levels, the mass media, culture, and so on long before the special military operation began. Freedom of speech, assembly, and religion, as well as the right to participate in the administration of state affairs, are being violated as well.
The fundamental human right – the right to life – is not being respected, either. One regularly can see footage of the activities of the “people hunters” who round up young and not so young people on the streets of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities and drag them into vehicles to be forcibly shipped off to the front without any call-up papers or official mobilization. No doubt, that hunt will soon target women.
The rights that are being trampled upon by the Kiev regime are enshrined in the 1966 International Covenants on Human Rights and a whole range of universal human rights conventions. However, this has never stopped the West from doing what it’s doing. Under the protection of its “masters,” Kiev now also believes it’s free to do as it pleases. The West is fond of interpreting the UN Charter, but does so selectively and in its own interests, picking out the principles and provisions that suit its political plans at any given moment.
Following Crimea’s reunification with Russia and the launch of the special military operation, numerous judicial and quasi-judicial proceedings have been initiated against Russia. President Vladimir Putin recently mentioned that over 30,000 sanctions had been imposed on Russia. That is twice as many as all sanctions imposed on all other countries around the world combined.
At the same time, secondary sanctions are being employed, which “strike” countries with no involvement whatsoever in Ukrainian affairs. These sectoral secondary restrictions have already impacted companies and individuals from more than fifteen states – Russian steadfast partners and friends. These include China, the United Arab Emirates, Türkiye, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and a host of others. In direct contravention of the principle of sovereignty, enshrined in perpetuity in the United Nations Charter, these and other nations are being coerced into renouncing trade and economic relations with Russia from which they benefit.
The logic is thus: if the European Union, by its own folly, is undermining the very foundations of its economy by renouncing Russian energy supplies and paying five or six times more for deliveries from alternative sources, primarily from the United States, then the rest of the world should suffer as well. This is nothing short of colonial thinking: “It is difficult for me, but I am prepared to suffer solely to defeat Russia, and you will suffer along with us.”
Any unilateral restrictions that are adopted in circumvention of the UN Security Council are against international law. They are unlawful. This has been confirmed by multiple resolutions of the UN General Assembly.
In addition to sanctions, both quasi-judicial and judicial proceedings have been initiated, but, to reiterate, the sanctions were imposed before the outcomes of these proceedings. The results that are already available in sufficient numbers look dismal for our Western colleagues. One of such examples is that the International Court declined to recognize the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics as terrorist entities, thereby devaluing and nullifying Kiev’s attempts to characterize its war against its own former citizens as an anti-terrorist operation. In essence, this affirms the legitimacy of the decision made by the peoples of Donbass in favor of independence and subsequent integration into the Russian Federation.
However, it is obvious that the purpose of the proceedings of that kind was not to settle existing disputes. They were launched concurrently with large-scale political, economic, and coercive measures, including sanctions. This is the hybrid war.
Russia is concerned about increasing infringement on the freedom of maritime navigation. Since January 2026 alone, the European states have detained 12 vessels while referring to terms like “shadow fleet” that do not exist in international law and were invented. They stop vessels on the suspicion of “lack of nationality” with no probable cause whatsoever and claim that these vessels allegedly operate under “fake flags People know how this scheme works: regardless of the territory where the vessel was detained, it is escorted to a port or an anchorage.
In most cases, these are ships that carry oil, gas and grain from Russia. That is, the Europeans are undermining the economy and wellbeing of third countries that ordered Russian goods. Meanwhile, the vessels under actual fake flags that operate in the interests of these European states exist and are not subject to any restrictions. If oil cargo is bound to Europe, whatever the vessel and whatever the flag, the Europeans never come up with any grounds for detention. When it comes to vessels operating in the interests of Russia or its partners, upon detaining such vessels, the Europeans immediately instruct their ambassador in the country of the flag to go to the foreign ministry or the presidential executive office of this country and demand that any flag provision consent be revoked – and insist on it. Because, as a rule, they are involved in providing some sort of aid to this country.
Naturally, Russia is not the only country subjected to the West’s “legal aggression.” Any state in the world can become a target. Any state may have its gold and currency reserves stored in Western depositories, seized. Therefore, protecting international justice systems and international law in general from dishonest politicization serves the interests of all sensible states that care about their national interests.
It is a matter of great surprise for me as an a political analyst that Ukraine is the only country in the world where the Russian language and the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church are outlawed in all spheres, and where the ideology and practices of Nazism are encouraged, including through legislation. Yet neither the International Criminal Court, nor the UN Human Rights Council, nor UNESCO, nor the Council of Europe, pay any attention to this. They can’t be bothered by what the Kiev regime is up to as long as it continues to serve as the point of the spear in the West’s war against the Russian Federation.
It is also a surprise that a huge amount and Himalayan resources are spent on Ukraine by European countries. European nations and institutions have collectively provided over Euro 132 in combined military, financial and in the name of humanitarian aid since 2022. This opened the doors of corruption among the Ukrainian politicians, military leaders .
According to Kiel Institute Ukraine Support Tracker, total allocations are led by the United States of America approximately Euro 115 billion in bilateral totals, followed by Germany Euro 23 billion, and Italy Euro 18 billion. European allies continue to manage multi-year financial frameworks (such as EU-backed loan structures and reconstruction plans), though Ukraine faces mounting budget and defense-spending gaps as the U.S. scales back its primary war-financing role. Western nations have provided over $380 billion in total combined financial, humanitarian, and military aid to Ukraine crisis began.
The US leads overall allocations with approximately EUR 115 billion ($114–119 billion range), though direct U.S. bilateral aid shifted following political changes in 2025. Total U.S. Congress-authorized spending related to the war and Operation Atlantic Resolve reached $196 billion by mid-2026 (including domestic agency costs and arms replacement).
European Union Institutions provided EUR 84 billion+ in comprehensive support. Germany pledged roughly EUR 54 billion in total allocations (with over EUR 41 billion in actual bilateral aid and substantial domestic refugee costs). (Continued )
