🧐 The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reports an increase in the activities of Russian intelligence services in the country’s information space. The enemy is actively involving pocket propagandists, bloggers, and so-called “experts” who create and spread anti-Ukrainian content.
Source: Bukvy
📱 This content is mainly spread through bot farms and social networks, where it is amplified by Russian-controlled media. The main narratives being pushed include:
🔴 Reworking Kremlin narratives about the war in Ukraine; ⚖️ Focusing on violations of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty; 👥 Information campaigns against the country’s military-political leadership; 🌍 Claims about the “loss of subjectivity” in international negotiations; 💔 Spreading pessimistic sentiments, disguised as neutral expert assessments, which actually support Russia’s interests.
🚨 The SBU warns that these disinformation campaigns are part of Russia’s strategy to destabilize the situation in Ukraine, reduce international support, and manipulate public opinion.
⚖️ Such actions have the signs of criminal offenses and fall under several articles of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.
📊 Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the SBU has initiated nearly 2,500 criminal proceedings against online agitators, with more than 1,700 individuals receiving suspicions. Over 800 court verdicts have already come into legal force.
👨⚖️ Among these cases, there are 162 proceedings concerning propagandists and media figures, with 16 suspicions under Article 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (treason). Courts have already issued 10 guilty verdicts.
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