Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou said in a video posted on Wednesday evening that several people previously included on the Ukrainian website Myrotvorets had been killed, after the site added him to its list.
The website, whose name means “peacemaker”, listed him on Friday, 6 November, as Phileleftheros first reported on 9 November.
Panayiotou said the website publishes the names, photographs and other personal data of people it describes as ‘enemies of Ukraine’, including soldiers, journalists and politicians. Some of those listed, he said, now appear on it marked as ‘neutralised’.
He also said the website had been condemned by the European Parliament in 2021, and that Ukraine had been asked to ban it.
The website’s claims
The entry on Panayiotou presents him as having acted in a hostile way towards Ukrainian interests. Beneath his name and date of birth, it accuses him of:
- taking part in acts of “humanitarian aggression” against Ukraine;
- manipulating information of public interest;
- spreading Russian propaganda narratives and taking part in the information and propaganda activities of the “Russian aggressor”;
- publicly supporting Russian aggression.
The entry then lists news reports on actions and statements of his that it links to the Kremlin, from his election as an MEP to the present. These include two trips to Russia, in 2023 and 2025, during which, according to the website, he visited Red Square and met Vyacheslav Volodin, chairman of the State Duma and a member of the United Russia party.
It also cites statements he allegedly made on sending weapons to Ukraine, a position on the deportation of children from Ukraine that it describes as controversial, and his stance on a related resolution.
The entry ends by asking law enforcement authorities to treat the publication as a complaint that he knowingly committed acts against Ukraine’s national security, peace, the security of mankind and the international legal order, as well as other breaches of the law.
International reactions
Myrotvorets is not officially linked to the Ukrainian government. Its database of personal details of politicians, journalists and other officials has drawn reactions from official bodies internationally.
According to a UN document dated 11 May 2026, Ukraine informed the UN Human Rights Committee that it had opened consolidated criminal proceedings over the illegal collection and dissemination of personal data through the website.
In June 2016, G7 ambassadors expressed deep concern over the website’s mass publication of journalists’ personal data. They said it ran counter to Ukrainian law, which allows personal data to be published only with the person’s consent.
Reports from the late 2010s to recently show that the European Commission, the European Parliament and the OSCE, among others, have raised the issue. They called on the Ukrainian government to address it and to investigate possible breaches of the law arising from the mass publication of personal data.
European media reports have at times linked the website to former officials of Ukrainian services. Those behind it have also faced criticism for restricting freedom of expression.
Phileleftheros repeatedly tried to contact Panayiotou by phone and in writing, through an associate, for comment, but received no response.
