ru-propaganda revives old fake about “ungrateful Ukrainian refugees” in Poland, previously debunked by the Center ◽️Pro-russian social media accounts are actively spreading a fabricated video in which a Ukrainian woman allegedly complains about the quality of humanitarian aid in Poland, claiming that the food package lacks “Italian pasta and shrimp.” Such information attacks are part…
ru-propaganda launches another stage of the russian disinformation campaign aimed at justifying the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children ▫️ Messages are circulating online claiming that the daughter of director Stanley Kubrick allegedly stated that “over 20,000 Ukrainian children have gone missing in Europe.” This narrative is presented as a report from a British news agency….
Hostile Telegram channels are spreading a video featuring the logo of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), claiming that soldiers from France, Poland, Germany, and other countries are dying en masse in the war in Ukraine. Such material does not exist on ISW’s official platforms. Moreover, the Institute publicly denied any involvement in…
The Center continues to document the ongoing disinformation campaign against Ukrainians in the context of the Olympic Games in Italy. ▫️ russian propaganda outlets have released a fabricated television report disguised as content from the Canadian broadcaster CBC. The fake video claims that Ukrainian athletes at the Olympic Games in Milan were deliberately accommodated “as…
Hostile Telegram channels are spreading a fake video presented as Euronews coverage, claiming that “two Ukrainian refugees” allegedly robbed a jewelry store in Milan. In reality, no such video exists on Euronews’ official platforms. The material used by russian propagandists actually concerns a robbery at a jewelry store in Richmond, London. There is no information…
russia’s foreign minister sergey lavrov claimed that russia allegedly “was not the first” to strike Ukraine’s energy and civilian infrastructure and once again repeated the narrative of Moscow’s supposed “retaliatory strikes.” ▫️ This is yet another example of classic kremlin propaganda based on distorting reality and substituting cause and effect. In this way, lavrov seeks…
Analysts monitoring kremlin hybrid operations on social media have identified a large-scale disinformation campaign conducted by the “Matryoshka” bot network, launched following the publication of new documents in the Epstein case by the U.S. Department of Justice. ▫️ Under the guise of content from well-known Western media outlets, fake videos, posts, and newspaper covers are…
Key points from the joint press conference of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk: ▫️ Poland has been and will remain a reliable friend of Ukraine—and therefore of our entire region and all of free Europe. We must continue to support one another. Ukraine is grateful to Poland for…
russia continues to expand its intelligence activities in space, posing a threat to Europe’s satellite infrastructure, according to Michael Traut, Major General and head of the German Armed Forces Space Command. ◽️ The focus is on russian satellites Luch-1 and Luch-2, which have approached at least ten key European satellites. These satellites conduct SIGINT reconnaissance…
russia is intensifying hybrid attacks against Italy ahead of the Olympic Games. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani stated that a series of cyberattacks had targeted Italy’s diplomatic institutions as well as facilities related to the Winter Olympic Games. He noted that these actions were orchestrated by russia. According to Italian media reports, a pro-russian hacker…
A coordinated anti-Ukrainian information campaign using AI technologies, disguised as “dating advertisements,” has been identified in the Polish segment of Facebook. The campaign has drawn the attention of Polish fact-checkers. ▫️ Dating groups are being flooded with nearly identical posts allegedly published by young Ukrainian women, including mothers or pregnant women. The posts feature AI-generated…
On the eve of the Olympic Games in Italy, russian propaganda has launched a wave of disinformation aimed at discrediting Ukraine and Ukrainians in the international information space. In particular, over the past few days russian outlets have spread the following fakes: ▪️ “Italy has banned the entry of 120 SSU (Security Service of Ukraine)…
