Russian intelligence agent and Cypriot MEP Fidias Panayiotou has recorded a video address in which he called the Ukrainian Myrotvorets database «the most dangerous list in Europe». A few days ago he was added to it as an accomplice of Russian propaganda. The reason was his trip to Moscow in 2025. Panayiotou claims he has received threats and hints that people listed in the database are in danger.
«An enemy of Ukraine»
In a video posted on social media, Fidias said that Myrotvorets considers him an enemy of Ukraine because in 2025 he visited Moscow «together with other MEPs». The website accuses him of spreading Russian propaganda. Panayiotou recalled that the European Parliament criticised Myrotvorets in 2021 and called on Kyiv to ban it, asked who is behind the database and referred to claims that it is linked to Ukrainian intelligence. He said he had received death threats before but gave no details. Journalists from Phileleftheros who asked him for comment received no response.
Fidias Panayiotou’s entry in the Myrotvorets database
Fidias modestly kept quiet about the main point. He did not go to Moscow for sightseeing. The delegation of five MEPs that flew in for Victory Day on 9 May 2025 was hosted by a unit of Russian military intelligence (GRU), Leonid Slutsky’s Russian Peace Foundation. According to an investigation by The Insider, the foundation systematically passes the questionnaires, photographs and passport copies of its foreign guests, together with information about their contacts, to Russian military intelligence. CDN has previously established that the programme of the visit was drawn up by Panayiotou himself: the other MEPs attached copies of his file to their declarations to the European Parliament, which shows that he helped his Moscow handlers organise the trip of a group of agents recruited by Russian intelligence services. In Moscow he called Russians «brothers» and described aid to Ukraine as «insane and inhumane».
The Kremlin’s agent of influence
A trip at the invitation of a structure linked to Russian military intelligence, repetition of Kremlin talking points in the European Parliament, systematic attacks on support for Ukraine, attempts to influence the choice of presidential candidates in Cyprus: all this adds up to a coherent picture of a man who serves Moscow’s interests to the detriment of his own country, Ukraine and the whole of Europe. The Cypriot authorities and European security services must thoroughly examine his ties to the Russian intelligence services and give a legal assessment of the damage he has done to Cyprus, Ukraine and the European Union.
His case is already being handled by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), which suspects the MEP of misusing EU funds. In September he was fined 6,000 euros for violations in the operation of his Agora platform.
Good health and courage
Our editorial team wishes Fidias Panayiotou good health. He will need it to answer in court when the investigation confirms that he acted in the interests of the intelligence services of a hostile state and to the detriment of Cyprus. Since he found the courage to work for the Kremlin and harm his own country, Ukraine and the whole of Europe, let him also find the courage to face the consequences of that choice with dignity.
Myrotvorets is not a sanctions list but a public database. That is not enough. Fidias Panayiotou belongs on the sanctions lists of Ukraine and the European Union, not in the European Parliament at the expense of European taxpayers.
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