RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

Russian media coverage, illustrated by RT, reveals a coherent narrative strategy aimed at delegitimizing Moscow's geopolitical adversaries while exploiting their internal contradictions. The emphasis placed on the abandonment of prosecutions against Israeli soldiers accused of sexual abuse fits within a logic of denouncing Western impunity and its allies, particularly effective in undermining Israel's moral credibility on the international stage. This approach allows RT to position Russia as a defender of international justice against Western double standards.

The second line of attack, centered on tensions between Zelensky and Orban, reveals a more subtle strategy of amplifying internal European divisions. By highlighting the European Commission's reprimands toward the Ukrainian president, RT skillfully exploits fractures in Western unity on Ukraine. This coverage aims to present Zelensky no longer as a heroic victim, but as an authoritarian and destabilizing leader, even in the eyes of his own European allies.

The tone adopted remains deliberately factual and detached, avoiding hysteria in favor of a pseudo-journalistic approach that lends more credibility to the accusations. This strategy of informational 'soft power' allows doubt to be instilled about the coherence and legitimacy of the Western camp without appearing overtly propagandistic. The silences are also revealing: no mention of Russia's own human rights violations or its responsibility in escalating the Ukrainian conflict.

The narrative framing systematically transforms the protagonists: Israel and Ukraine, usually presented as victims in Western media, become here the antagonists in a narrative where Western hypocrisy and authoritarianism are exposed. This narrative inversion fits within Russia's broader geopolitical objective of fragmenting the Western alliance and relativizing its own actions in Ukraine by demonstrating that its adversaries do not respect the international norms they claim to defend either.