{"id":37779,"date":"2025-09-11T14:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=37779"},"modified":"2025-09-11T15:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T12:07:38","slug":"russia-has-launched-an-information-operation-against-the-baltic-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-has-launched-an-information-operation-against-the-baltic-states\/","title":{"rendered":"russia has launched an information operation against the Baltic States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda has intensified threats and aggressive rhetoric against the Baltic States.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In particular, pro-kremlin resources publish so-called \u201cexpert opinions,\u201d allegedly proving the involvement of the Baltic States in Ukrainian drone attacks on the territory of russia. These claims are based solely on unfounded assumptions, citing \u201clocal residents\u2019 reports\u201d and similar sources \u2014 without any confirmation or factual evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In these publications, propaganda seeks to portray the Baltics as a \u201cthreat to russia,\u201d a \u201cNATO foothold,\u201d and to justify the need for a \u201cresponse to aggression,\u201d effectively legitimizing possible escalation by russia.<\/p>\n<p>Importantly, the information campaign against the Baltic States is unfolding simultaneously with the violation of Polish airspace by russian drones and the launch of the russian-belarusian military exercises \u201cWest-2025.\u201d These are elements of a single kremlin strategy aimed at intimidating neighbors and pressuring NATO. moscow seeks to destabilize NATO member states and create division among Ukraine\u2019s partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda has intensified threats and aggressive rhetoric against the Baltic States. \u25ab\ufe0f In particular, pro-kremlin resources publish so-called \u201cexpert opinions,\u201d allegedly proving the involvement of the Baltic States in Ukrainian drone attacks on the territory of russia. These claims are based solely on unfounded assumptions, citing \u201clocal residents\u2019 reports\u201d and similar sources \u2014 without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":932,"footnotes":""},"categories":[932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}