Some information resources of the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as the russian media, disseminated news, the main narrative of which was the alleged shelling of the territory of the russian federation by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (near the village of Stanytsia Mytyakynska). Representatives of the Investigative Committee…
Fake, disinformation, propaganda, interpretation… Russia is using these and many other types of manipulative false information in its hybrid war against Ukraine. Why does Ukraine need the Center for Countering Disinformation at the NSDC and why should you trust us? The head of the Center, Andriy Shapovalov, answers. – We are the people who watch…
Given the adoption of the Resolution of the russian Federation Council (the upper house of the Federal Assembly of russia) “On the use of the Armed Forces of the russian federation outside the territory of russia”, the russian side may begin the next phase of implementation of plans to provoke military aggression to finally justify…
On February 21, in his speech, putin eloquently called our country “Lenin’s Ukraine” and named dozens of pseudo-reasons to somehow justify his decision to officially recognize the TOT of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Already today, the State Duma of russia has unanimously ratified the ” treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance” between russia and…
The main arguments that the video “Video of the Public Relations Center of FSS of the russian federation on the shelling of russian territory from the outside” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTr4FaYTG2I) is staged: 1. According to the russian website RBC, the incident took place near the village of Shcherbakovo (Neklinovsky district of Rostov region of russia), located more…
From the beginning of 2022, a disinformation campaign with the narrative that Ukraine is terrorizing the population of TOT of Donetsk and Luhansk regions began to be followed in the information space. The enemy tried to create a sustainable impression among the residents of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents of the russian federation, as…
The emergency statements by the so-called leaders of the TOT in Donetsk and Luhansk regions turned out to be orchestrated fakes. Video messages about the need to urgently evacuate the population of the pseudo-republics, published by L. Pasichnyk and D. Pushylin, were recorded on February 16. At the same time, the metadata of the video…
Fake information is spread on Facebook that Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to “send Bundeswehr troops to Ukraine.” The president is credited with the following quote: “We are always glad to have a German soldier on our land.” The original source of the fake news was a post on the website of…
On February 10, which coincided with the start of the russian-Belarusian exercise “Allied Resolve 2022,” russia was supposed to invade Ukraine. Then Bloomberg reported, citing sources among U.S. officials, that russia’s new aggression against Ukraine could begin on February 15-16. Russian media and pro-russian resources in Ukraine actively spread the narrative that the general panic…
Center for Countering Disinformation has revealed that a number of manipulative materials aimed at discrediting Ukraine in the international arena are being spread in the information space. On February 8, Liseron Boudoul, a journalist of the French TV channel TF1, and cameraman Gilles Parrot published a series of original materials on TF1. This is a…
The pro-government media in Belarus and russia have launched an information and psychological special operation to discredit the Ukrainian government and the Armed Forces of Ukraine. They accuse Ukraine of conducting illegal reconnaissance activities using UAVs over the Brest military training ground on January 24. As evidence, they are actively disseminating satellite images of the…
Recently, several publications in the TOT (temporarily occupied territories) have spread a statement by US public figure and musician Chris Jackson Royce. The main messages were to justify the activities of the occupation administrations in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as to discredit Ukraine’s activities in the international arena…
