{"id":65171,"date":"2026-05-25T06:52:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=65171"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:02:55","slug":"is-pedro-sanchez-trying-to-win-over-the-extreme-left-vote-at-ukraines-expense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/25\/is-pedro-sanchez-trying-to-win-over-the-extreme-left-vote-at-ukraines-expense\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pedro S\u00e1nchez trying to win over the extreme left vote at Ukraine's expense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Russia carried out another massive attack against civilian targets in Ukraine, particularly targeting its capital, Kyiv.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/26\/pedro-sanchez-and-nato-unmasking-a-government-allied-with-putins-puppets\/\">Pedro S\u00e1nchez and NATO: Unmasking a government allied with Putin's puppets<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/02\/02\/the-infamous-favors-of-pedro-sanchezs-government-to-vladimir-putins-dictatorship\/\">The infamous favors of Pedro S\u00e1nchez's government to Vladimir Putin's dictatorship<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A massive Russian attack on Kyiv condemned by international leaders<\/big><\/p>\n<p>In a message posted at 12:14 PM CET, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2058491830224724006\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the President of Ukraine<\/a> stated: <em>\"Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. <strong>The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital \u2013 at ordinary residential buildings, at schools<\/strong>; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv\u2019s oldest markets. <strong>The Russian strike effectively destroyed the Chornobyl Museum<\/strong>, damaged the National Art Museum and the building housing the office of Germany\u2019s ARD. As of now, <strong>69 people have been reported injured in the capital. Tragically, two people were killed in this senseless Russian attack<\/strong>.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"665\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight, the Russians struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities and communities. The largest number of missiles was directed at the capital \u2013 at ordinary residential buildings, at schools; they burned down a food market, one of Kyiv\u2019s oldest markets. The Russian strike effectively\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XHtbpTSOFi\">pic.twitter.com\/XHtbpTSOFi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Volodymyr Zelenskyy \/ \u0412\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u0417\u0435\u043b\u0435\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0438\u0439 (@ZelenskyyUa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2058491830224724006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Zelensky posted this video showing the damage caused by that Russian terrorist attack against Kyiv.<\/strong> Throughout Sunday, the Ukrainian president posted messages of thanks to the international leaders who condemned the attack: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/eucopresident\/status\/2058511494971535569\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the presidents of the European Council<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/vonderleyen\/status\/2058494885640945892\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the European Commission<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EP_President\/status\/2058556033497169945\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the European Parliament<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlarKaris\/status\/2058508695642792434\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the presidents of Estonia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alexstubb\/status\/2058464383685001330\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Finland<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EmmanuelMacron\/status\/2058490543122923554\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/edgarsrinkevics\/status\/2058442072768524678\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Latvia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GitanasNauseda\/status\/2058457897051259252\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lithuania<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sandumaiamd\/status\/2058464977527165375\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moldova<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bundeskanzler\/status\/2058497405209756147\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">los prime ministers of Germany<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/_CStocker\/status\/2058517619041358187\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austria<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MarkJCarney\/status\/2058392587585605827\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Canada<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Statsmin\/status\/2058590117133009378\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denmark<\/a> e <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2058532636025295227\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Italy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>Socialist Pedro S\u00e1nchez remains silent once again<\/big><\/p>\n<p>As has happened before, <strong>Pedro S\u00e1nchez said absolutely nothing all day Sunday.<\/strong> The Spanish Prime Minister has long only posted messages of condemnation on Twitter when he has something to say about Israel. <strong>Although he has been supporting Ukraine, S\u00e1nchez maintains a low profile regarding the invasion of the country, quite the opposite of what he does with Israel<\/strong>, a country that suffered its worst terrorist attack on October 7, 2013 (which was also the worst anti-Semitic massacre since the Holocaust) and <strong>with which the Spanish Socialist leader is visibly obsessed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><big>S\u00e1nchez's low profile against Putin while doing favors for Russia<\/big\n\nThe clearest proof of this low profile is that <strong>S\u00e1nchez has repeatedly accused Israel of \"genocide,\"<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/05\/23\/the-facts-and-data-that-refute-the-false-accusations-of-genocide-against-israel\/\">a categorically false accusation<\/a> with which the socialist leader is clearly seeking to gain the support of the Spanish far left, which is rabidly anti-Semitic. <strong>However, S\u00e1nchez has not once accused Putin or Russia of \"genocide,\" or even of \"terrorism,\"<\/strong> despite the massacres of Ukrainian civilians perpetrated by the invaders in cities like Bucha and Izyum and the constant and systematic Russian attacks against civilian targets in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.servimedia.es\/noticias\/espana-compro-rusia-42-mas-gas-primer-trimestre-15-mas-eeuu\/1412848398\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spain continues to buy record amounts of natural gas from Russia<\/a>, helping to finance Putin's aggression against Ukraine. At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/05\/18\/rtve-and-efe-under-sanchezs-control-are-now-doing-to-ukraine-what-they-already-did-to-israel\/\">the public media controlled by the S\u00e1nchez government are copying the Kremlin's propaganda strategy against Ukraine<\/a>, repeating the same bias they exhibit against Israel. At the same time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/02\/15\/pedro-sanchez-boycotts-the-defense-of-europe-and-does-vladimir-putin-a-favor\/\">S\u00e1nchez has been dedicated to sabotaging NATO from within<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/10\/26\/pedro-sanchez-and-nato-unmasking-a-government-allied-with-putins-puppets\/\">among his national and foreign partners there are allies of Russia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><big>The political reasons for S\u00e1nchez's silence on Ukraine<\/big><\/p>\n<p>There are two reasons that can explain S\u00e1nchez's double standards regarding Ukraine. On the one hand, <strong>his government's largest international partner is currently communist China<\/strong>, which, coincidentally, is the largest ally of Vladimir Putin's dictatorship. On the other hand, <strong>the Spanish far left has repeatedly shown its alignment with the Kremlin<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/03\/02\/cuatro-eurodiputados-espanoles-de-extrema-izquierda-no-condenan-la-invasion-de-ucrania\/\">even refusing to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish communists continue to maintain the inertia that for decades kept them loyal to Moscow, something explainable, on the other hand, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2026\/04\/23\/putin-praises-dzerzhinsky-the-founder-of-the-communist-cheka-who-inspired-the-gestapo\/\">the wave of nostalgia for the Soviet dictatorship that Putin is promoting in Russia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2025\/07\/25\/putins-dictatorship-is-angry-about-the-czech-republics-ban-on-communism\/\">his criticisms of the attempts to veto communism in Western Europe<\/a>. Currently, S\u00e1nchez's party, the PSOE, is suffering a series of electoral defeats largely due to socialist corruption scandals. <strong>S\u00e1nchez and the PSOE have only one way out: to rely on the far left<\/strong> and try to win over their votes, as they have completely lost the political center.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this political strategy, Ukraine becomes an obstacle<\/strong>, a topic to be avoided at all costs, remaining silent in the face of constant Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine and <strong>focusing all the attention of the Spanish government on Israel<\/strong>, a democratic country for which the far left harbors a pathological hatred. <strong>That is why S\u00e1nchez doesn't even dare to accuse Putin of terrorism and genocide<\/strong>, because he knows that would upset his communist partners and many left-wing extremists whose support is necessary to prevent the PSOE's total collapse in the next general elections.<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lamoncloa_gob_es\/55132659443\/in\/dateposted\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Moncloa<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Russia carried out another massive attack against civilian targets in Ukraine, particularly targeting its capital, Kyiv.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10398],"tags":[10497,693,2721,10731,16153,11462,15307],"class_list":["post-65171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spain","tag-far-left","tag-psoe","tag-pedro-sanchez-castejon","tag-russia","tag-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-of-2022","tag-spain","tag-ukraine"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 02:17:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}