Unbiased media reporting can simply say 'the Russians claim' and there you go.
America/NATO and Ukraine can claim what they want in the media and are quoted constantly.
There is a lack of non-aligned third-party verification of anything in this conflict so it's the least the media can do.
If you would like to see what putting arms in the hands of fundamentalists to fight for the US/NATOs side see Syria, Iraq, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Libya etc
Indeed you are right, no moral equivalence is implied.
But in the long run, white supremacists should not be looked to as an appropriate or effective opposition to Putin.
And it is interesting that the western media can't find any one else to be the face of liberal democracy in Russia, is it because they can't find one or because they are just too lazy to check Navalny's actual position on things.
"But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience"."
This is a government which is in the process of criminalising protest under a deliberately vague 'public nuisance' clause. They only want freedom of expression for their views and not for those that oppose them.
America/NATO and Ukraine can claim what they want in the media and are quoted constantly.
There is a lack of non-aligned third-party verification of anything in this conflict so it's the least the media can do.
If you would like to see what putting arms in the hands of fundamentalists to fight for the US/NATOs side see Syria, Iraq, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Libya etc