{"id":43711,"date":"2026-02-13T13:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=43711"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:03:06","slug":"the-kremlin-is-attempting-to-promote-a-campaign-in-the-west-about-alleged-atrocities-by-the-afu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/the-kremlin-is-attempting-to-promote-a-campaign-in-the-west-about-alleged-atrocities-by-the-afu\/","title":{"rendered":"The kremlin is attempting to promote a campaign in the West about alleged \u201catrocities by the AFU\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues to use individual Western journalists to disseminate disinformation about the so-called crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f russian propaganda outlets are actively circulating statements by an American journalist who, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has cooperated with russian media to promote narratives favorable to the kremlin in Western countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f This time, he visited border areas of russia\u2019s kursk region, where he recorded videos featuring claims about alleged \u201ccrimes by Ukraine against the civilian population of russia, russian culture, memorial sites,\u201d and similar assertions. It is further claimed that these alleged \u201ccrimes are committed by Ukraine with the support of the West and NATO countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No evidence is provided by the self-described \u201cindependent American journalist,\u201d and his statements repeat, word for word, standard russian propaganda narratives.<\/p>\n<p>The use of little-known Western journalists is one of the methods employed by russian propaganda to create an illusion of \u201cindependence\u201d and to promote its narratives among Western audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues to use individual Western journalists to disseminate disinformation about the so-called crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. \u25ab\ufe0f russian propaganda outlets are actively circulating statements by an American journalist who, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, has cooperated with russian media to promote narratives favorable to the kremlin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43712,"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-43711","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\/43711","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=43711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}