This issue is the sixth for 2023 and the 16th since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. In this issue we discuss how to create an ideal culprit from the figure of Stepan Bandera, who has been exploited since the beginning of the conflict by Russia to justify its hostility and brutality towards Ukraine. It is easy enough to create a legend, a bad reputation, to explain the reasons for an offensive and partisan strategy against a designated adversary. In judicial terms, it looks like the case is being heard by the prosecution. A cabal feeds itself, it is enough to identify negative elements that are often true but are not balanced by other positive elements that would have neutralized them. One way to rob a “colleague” is to send apparently neutral and friendly emissaries whose profiles do not match, each remaining in one’s character and prior ideas. The «Queen without kingdom» Marie Stuart, opposed to Queen Elisabeth in the 16th century, is finally trapped by a spy sent by Elisabeth whom she had identified with foresight «Beware of Walsingham because he is a cunning man who hides his true intentions under the pretext of a (false) friendship» she writes to the ambassador of France (1). The Ukrainian President has not fallen into any trap set by an equally devious Russia.

1-The ambiguous factory of the culprit
2-Russian legend, weaponizing a trouble figure
3-Ukrainian answer, struggling against revisionism
4-Counter legend