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….
At the “russian cultural center” in Equatorial Guinea, the “birthday of st. petersburg State University” was celebrated, during which they urged local youth to learn russian and pursue education in russia. Such events are presented as “developing scientific and educational cooperation”, but in reality, russia is trying to use education to spread its own influence…
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…
russia has announced the opening of applications for the so-called Lev Tolstoy International Peace Prize for 2026. This is yet another propaganda initiative targeting countries of the Global South. ▫️ The very existence of a russian “peace prize” is openly cynical. It was established in 2022—the year russia launched the largest war in Europe since…
Changes have been recorded at sites of mass burials of civilians killed during the fighting in 2022 in the occupied Mariupol district. These include the Starokrymske cemetery, as well as cemeteries in the villages of Vynohradne and Mangush. According to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office, approximately 6,500 criminal proceedings have been registered regarding the deaths…
On social media, a cynical manipulation is being spread to promote the narrative of the so-called “staged war” in Ukraine. Photographs of a child taken at funerals of fallen Ukrainian soldiers are being used for this purpose. ▫️ In particular, a series of photos from different farewell ceremonies shows the same boy carrying portraits of…
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…
