Because here on Medium (and anywhere this debate regarding that war is going on) — any time someone has a different perspective from the West's pat narrative, no matter how informed or sincere they may be —those pathetic cheap shots in a debate are brought out. In their sloppy thinking they aim to discredit people with remarks like "Russian trolls" or , "worlk for the Kremlin" or some other inanity of failed critical-thinking.
It would be like my suggesting that these virtue-signaling computer keyboard warriors work for the weapons manufacturers, profiting from The War Racket, or simply lap-dogs for Vogue model and USA proxy war puppet Zelenskyy.