{"id":42590,"date":"2026-01-13T18:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=42590"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T14:35:54","slug":"ru-propaganda-continues-to-discredit-ukrainian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/ru-propaganda-continues-to-discredit-ukrainian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"ru-propaganda continues to discredit Ukrainian refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The center records the continuation of a wave of discrediting Ukrainian refugees through fake videos purportedly from Western media.<\/p>\n<p>On social networks, fabricated &#8220;news&#8221; styled like Euronews and Le Figaro are spreading, with claims about an alleged &#8220;pension crisis in the EU due to expenses on Ukrainian refugees&#8221; and &#8220;sensational crimes by Ukrainians in Europe.&#8221; The creators of these fakes use hate speech, invented statistics, and &#8220;shocking&#8221; stories to provoke an emotional reaction.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, such materials are absent from the official resources of Euronews and Le Figaro. No law enforcement agencies or reputable European media have confirmed the described events or &#8220;sociological data.&#8221; This is a typical tactic of russian propaganda: imitating the style of well-known publications to lend credibility to their lies.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of these fakes is to discredit Ukrainian refugees, incite xenophobia in EU countries, and undermine support for Ukraine by portraying aid to Ukrainians as a &#8220;threat&#8221; to the welfare of Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>The center previously reported on the systematic use by russian propaganda of fake videos purportedly from Western media to discredit Ukraine and Ukrainians abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The center records the continuation of a wave of discrediting Ukrainian refugees through fake videos purportedly from Western media. On social networks, fabricated &#8220;news&#8221; styled like Euronews and Le Figaro are spreading, with claims about an alleged &#8220;pension crisis in the EU due to expenses on Ukrainian refugees&#8221; and &#8220;sensational crimes by Ukrainians in Europe.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42591,"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-42590","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\/42590","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=42590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}