I remember the days when large elements of the left parroted Russian propaganda on Syria even though Russia was helping Assad use chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, even though Assad was bombing Palestinian refugee camps, even though Assad was committing war crimes.
Russia is a threat to European democracy, from Georgia to Ireland, from Lithuania to Spain, and they’ve managed to infiltrate our democracies to such an extent that there are large elements of the left & right that are quite happy to parrot Russian propaganda at the expense of Ukraine lives.