{"id":45990,"date":"2026-04-14T11:04:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=45990"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T10:00:43","slug":"russia-spreads-disinformation-about-executions-of-civilians-in-the-kursk-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/europe\/russia-spreads-disinformation-about-executions-of-civilians-in-the-kursk-region\/","title":{"rendered":"russia spreads disinformation about \u201cexecutions of civilians\u201d in the kursk region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ru-propaganda is disseminating another statement by russian ombudswoman tatiana moskalkova, alleging \u201cexecutions of civilians in the kursk region by Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f moskalkova claims that these executions are \u201cconfirmed by eyewitness accounts.\u201d At the same time, she provides no information on whether such cases have been verified by independent investigations or even by investigations controlled by the kremlin. Thus, this is yet another propaganda statement without any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f Such information injections about alleged \u201catrocities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces\u201d continue a long-standing propaganda tactic of russia: through emotional, unsubstantiated accusations, representatives of the aggressor state attempt to shape a negative image of Ukrainians for both domestic audiences and international influence.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of these statements is to discredit Ukraine\u2019s Defense Forces, create an informational justification for russia\u2019s own actions, and shift attention away from the war crimes systematically committed by russian troops in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ru-propaganda is disseminating another statement by russian ombudswoman tatiana moskalkova, alleging \u201cexecutions of civilians in the kursk region by Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel.\u201d \u25ab\ufe0f moskalkova claims that these executions are \u201cconfirmed by eyewitness accounts.\u201d At the same time, she provides no information on whether such cases have been verified by independent investigations or even by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45991,"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-45990","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\/45990","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=45990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}