russia is once again attempting to rewrite the content of the Budapest Memorandum in order to justify its armed aggression and the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity. ▫️ russian foreign ministry spokesperson maria zakharova claimed that the 1994 document guaranteed security to Ukrainians but allegedly “does not oblige russia to forcibly keep parts of Ukraine’s…
The main points from the interview of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, with AFP: ▫️ In recent times, the Defense Forces of Ukraine have liberated 300 square kilometers of territory. The mid-level command of the russian military still fears reporting this to its superiors. ▫️ We are observing a monthly reduction of 8,000–10,000 in…
Key statements by Volodymyr Zelenskyy from an interview with the Japanese news agency Kyodo News: ▫️ We have good coordination with the Japanese government in the energy and humanitarian sectors, as well as at the embassy level here in Ukraine. ▫️ We are ready to open up our technologies to Japan — for example, marine…
Germany’s railway operator, Deutsche Bahn, has been targeted by a large-scale cyberattack, reportedly potentially linked to russian hackers. ▫️ As a result of a series of DDoS attacks, the ticket booking system and passenger information services were paralyzed, disrupting the operation of critical transport infrastructure in one of the EU’s largest economies. ▫️ Based on…
Thomas Nilsson, Head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (MUST), stated that hybrid threats from russia are growing, with increased russian activity near Sweden. According to him, moscow is acting more intensively and riskily. ▫️ russia’s interest in conducting hybrid and intelligence operations near Sweden intensified after the country joined NATO and strengthened its…
russian propagandists are circulating a fake video bearing the logo of the French media outlet TF1 Info, claiming that the father of Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych was allegedly expelled from the Olympic Village and banned from returning because he supposedly pressured other athletes to take photos with his son’s helmet. No such video appears…
Western intelligence agencies are detecting the use by russian special services of former structures of the ‘Wagner’ PMC and networks associated with the ‘troll factory’ to organize sabotage in EU countries. As reported by the Financial Times citing sources in European intelligence agencies, after the 2023 coup and the elimination of yevgeny prigozhin, the recruitment…
russian propaganda continues to use individual Western journalists to disseminate disinformation about the so-called crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. ▫️ russian propaganda outlets are actively circulating statements by an American journalist who, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has cooperated with russian media to promote narratives favorable to the kremlin…
Disinformation is spreading in the Polish information space about the alleged mass deaths of Polish soldiers on the territory of Ukraine. ▫️ Former Polish judge Tomasz Szmydt, who is wanted on suspicion of espionage in favor of belarus and has obtained belarusian citizenship, published a Facebook post featuring photos of coffins, claiming that “hundreds of…
russian propaganda has revived an old narrative alleging the existence of “secret prisons” in Ukraine for captured russian servicemen. ▫️ In an interview with propagandists, the so-called ambassador-at-large of the ministry of foreign affairs of the russian federation on the alleged crimes of the “Kyiv regime,” rodion miroshnik, claimed that there are “basements” and “secret…
The Center has recorded the continuation of a coordinated disinformation campaign against Ukraine in the context of the Olympic Games in Italy. ▫️ On social media, new fake reports are being circulated, disguised as news segments from foreign media. In particular, it is falsely claimed that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) allegedly “eased doping controls…
Analysts from EUvsDisinfo have highlighted a growing trend of coordinated campaigns manipulating content on Wikipedia, one of the world’s most authoritative reference platforms. The open-editing model is increasingly being used as a tool of geopolitical influence. ▫️ These so-called “edit wars” involve prolonged conflicts over articles, in which coordinated groups systematically alter wording, sources, and…
