{"id":41471,"date":"2025-12-15T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=41471"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T09:51:58","slug":"russia-takes-its-disinformation-war-to-the-streets-of-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-takes-its-disinformation-war-to-the-streets-of-vienna\/","title":{"rendered":"russia Takes Its Disinformation War to the Streets of Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian agents, posing as \u201cUkrainian neo-Nazis,\u201d launched a disinformation campaign in Austria\u2019s capital, Vienna, aimed at undermining support for Ukraine in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fJournalists, using materials from Austria\u2019s Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), established that russian agents systematically sprayed graffiti and posted stickers with neo-Nazi symbols on Vienna\u2019s buildings, simulating a \u201cUkrainian trace.\u201d The goal was to portray Ukraine as a radical and dangerous state to European society.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0fInvestigators report that a long-time russian intelligence agent played a key role, coordinating the creation and placement of provocative materials. The operation went beyond \u201cstreet art.\u201d A network of websites was created to mimic European hubs of the \u201cAzov\u201d movement and reinforce the illusion of a \u201cUkrainian threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This case demonstrates the evolution of russia\u2019s hybrid warfare: the kremlin is moving information operations directly onto the streets of European cities, creating a new level of threat to Western society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian agents, posing as \u201cUkrainian neo-Nazis,\u201d launched a disinformation campaign in Austria\u2019s capital, Vienna, aimed at undermining support for Ukraine in the EU. \u25ab\ufe0fJournalists, using materials from Austria\u2019s Directorate of State Security and Intelligence (DSN), established that russian agents systematically sprayed graffiti and posted stickers with neo-Nazi symbols on Vienna\u2019s buildings, simulating a \u201cUkrainian trace.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41472,"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-41471","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\/41471","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=41471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}