{"id":47126,"date":"2026-05-20T11:16:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=47126"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:45:44","slug":"enemy-campaign-about-afu-atrocities-new-narratives-of-ru-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/enemy-campaign-about-afu-atrocities-new-narratives-of-ru-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemy campaign about \u201cAFU atrocities\u201d: new narratives of ru-propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues its disinformation campaign about alleged \u201catrocities committed by the AFU\u201d in an attempt to discredit Ukrainian servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few days, the enemy has released a series of manipulative reports featuring so-called \u201ceyewitness testimonies,\u201d which are being actively spread by russian propaganda resources:<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In the first video, another released russian POW, who appears completely healthy, follows a standard script describing alleged \u201cbeatings\u201d and \u201cabuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f In another video, a man claiming to be a resident of Pokrovsk speaks about alleged \u201cexecutions of civilians,\u201d \u201ccut-off ears,\u201d and \u201cshot knees.\u201d However, his own account makes it clear that he did not personally witness any of these events and is merely repeating rumors.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f The third report features a civilian allegedly evacuated from the combat zone in the Kharkiv region, who claims that Ukrainian soldiers disguised themselves in russian uniforms in order to \u201cidentify and execute pro-russian residents.\u201d This absurd narrative about \u201cdisguised Ukrainians\u201d is intended to shift responsibility for the real atrocities committed by the russian army onto Ukrainian servicemen.<\/p>\n<p>This systematic russian disinformation campaign contains no evidence and is not supported by any independent verification. The kremlin is attempting to demonize the AFU, intimidate civilians in frontline and occupied territories, and justify its armed aggression against Ukraine while disguising its own war crimes as a so-called \u201cliberation mission.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russian propaganda continues its disinformation campaign about alleged \u201catrocities committed by the AFU\u201d in an attempt to discredit Ukrainian servicemen. Over the past few days, the enemy has released a series of manipulative reports featuring so-called \u201ceyewitness testimonies,\u201d which are being actively spread by russian propaganda resources: \u25ab\ufe0f In the first video, another released russian&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47127,"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":934,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47126","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=47126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}