They've been transitioning to scapegoating them for a while now. Blaming them for nordstream, a gradual increase of articles in MSM that are at least passingly critical of Ukraine and/or Ukraine's chances of winning the war. They can't do it too quickly or it would be just a little bit too obvious.

In a few years we will be reading about how nobody could have seen the fascist elements taking control, and how ever could that have happened. Wouldn't be surprised if some kind of task force were assembled to liberate Ukrainian oil reser-I mean, bring democracy to the people of Ukraine.