Putin doesn’t really care if European countries are governed by leftists, fascists or whoever, as long as they are nationalists, working towards the balkanisation of Europe and the functional destruction of the EU because this is the precondition to enable the next stepd of Russian conquest and domination of Europe.

There are not only right Putinist parties in the EU. In Germany Wagenknecht is openly defending Russian positions and pretends to be left as well.