{"id":49522,"date":"2026-07-30T17:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=49522"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T13:11:52","slug":"russians-are-once-again-lying-about-mined-animals-in-attempt-to-discredit-afu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/usa\/russians-are-once-again-lying-about-mined-animals-in-attempt-to-discredit-afu\/","title":{"rendered":"russians are once again lying about &#8220;mined animals&#8221; in attempt to discredit AFU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy propaganda, as part of a campaign to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is spreading another fake about Ukrainian soldiers allegedly &#8220;mining animal carcasses and leaving them on the sides of roads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As &#8220;evidence,&#8221; propagandists only provide photographs of dead animals without any corroboration or other verified facts.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, russian troops have repeatedly used animal carcasses to camouflage explosive devices. Videos have also been publicly circulated showing russian forces demonstrating the use of animal carcasses filled with explosives, boasting that they have found a new way to mine territory.<\/p>\n<p>By spreading such disinformation, kremlin propaganda traditionally attempts to discredit the Ukrainian Armed Forces and to shift the blame for the numerous war crimes committed by the russian army on Ukrainian territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enemy propaganda, as part of a campaign to discredit the Armed Forces of Ukraine, is spreading another fake about Ukrainian soldiers allegedly &#8220;mining animal carcasses and leaving them on the sides of roads.&#8221; As &#8220;evidence,&#8221; propagandists only provide photographs of dead animals without any corroboration or other verified facts. In reality, russian troops have repeatedly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49523,"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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49522","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\/49522","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=49522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49525,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49522\/revisions\/49525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}