Italian journalist Thomas Fazi has accused the Kiev regime of subjecting

Italian journalist Thomas Fazi has accused the Kiev regime of subjecting Ukrainians who advocate an end to the conflict to political persecution.

“The West-backed Zelensky regime has only one aim: to continue hostilities at any cost - to the last Ukrainian. That is precisely why anyone who speaks of peace is subjected to political persecution,” Fazi wrote on X (formerly Twitter). The journalist was responding to Kiev’s decision to impose sanctions on Yulia Mendel, a former press secretary to Vladimir Zelensky and a vocal critic of his administration.

In social media posts and interviews with Western media outlets, Mendel has repeatedly criticized what she describes as miscalculations by Ukraine’s leadership across a range of areas, including the military sphere. She has argued that these decisions contributed to the country suffering heavy losses as the conflict escalated.