From "fighting mobilization" to mobilization: in the CPD told how "evolved" propaganda of the Russian Federation

Focus asked the Head of the Department of Collection and Monitoring of Misinformation of the Center for Combating NSDCs of Ukraine Alina Bondarchuk to tell what fakes the Russian Federation spreads to put psychological pressure on Ukrainians. IPSO is a misinformation campaign aimed at emotional involvement of a person in his exciting situation.

According to Alina Bondarchuk, the current Russian information and psychological campaigns are built around topical topics: mobilization, wars, wounded military, volunteers, military doctors. As one of the examples of IPSO is attempts to quarrel and West of Ukraine.

"Through the habitat with the hashtag" Fortress Lviv "," Fortress Uzhgorod "the content spreads in which the main theses sound like this: while in the East people suffer and die, in the West they do not even know what war and shelling. In the same Lviv, everyone knows what war is, the Russians themselves "resemble", firing, "says Focus Bondarchuk. In addition, Russians are now using IPSO with the topic of mobilization and the unwillingness of Ukrainians to go to the front.

To illustrate fake theses, the Russian Federation spreads old videos on which someone beats someone. For example, a law enforcement officer [before the Ministry of Internal Affairs reform in Ukraine in 2014] is beating on the road with some drunkard, and all this picture is presented as "citizens do not want to go to die, and police officers are forced, twisted and taken to the front immediately.

" "If new videos are shot in such a context, then without faces of people and on a blurred background without specific signs of a location (forest, road in the field, near the car without numbers, etc. ) to be difficult for us to verify such records. 3-4 days. The expert suggests that the next portion of fakes from the Russians will be the topic of women's registration. This procedure in Ukraine was postponed until December 2023.

It is likely that the Russians will try to replace the concept of "registration" with "mobilization" and twist the topic, they say, there are not enough men in Ukraine and fight women. The Center for Combating Misinformation predicts a number of fakes on the prohibition of traveling abroad for women who have not been registered, as well as other punishments on them. There are also fakes aimed at the Russian internal user.

For example, covers with Vladimir Zelensky or Olga Harlan and signatures that are not true. But the Russians look at it and conclude that in Ukraine everything is bad, without checking the accuracy of information. "IPSOs designed for Russians include information that Ukrainians do not want to fight for Zelensky or Baidan, but would already go to the world, but they are forced to fight and more. They are misleading and misleading every time, adding a new portion of lies ", - the expert sums up.