🤥At #Putin’s administration, the actions of Belarusian air traffic controllers, who landed a plane with opposition journalist Roman #Protasevich, are considered justified. Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, does not see a threat to Russian passengers in this incident.
Morever, Peskov called the accusations of 🇷🇺 involvement in the landing of the #Ryanair plane a manifestation of the “Russophobic obsession”. Suсh suspicions were voiced by many, e.g. the British Foreign Secretary: he said it was difficult to believe that Russia was not involved.
Accusations of Russophobia are one of the main tactics of #Russian propaganda used in defense against the international condemnation of the #Putin regime’s illegal actions. We explored this tactic and several more, often used in combination, in this video:

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24 May
❗️A Ryanair plane en route from Athens to Vilnius was forcibly landed in Minsk yesterday to detain Roman #Protasevich, Belarusian opposition journalist and former editor of the NEXTA Telegram channel.

Photo: Roman Protasevich’s Facebook
According to the sources of @nau_belarus, the representative body of #Belarusian opposition, the Belarusian side threatened to shoot down the plane through air traffic control if it did not perform an emergency landing in Minsk.
Furthermore, a MiG-29 fighter aircraft was employed to escort and land the plane, as confirmed by #Minsk.
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20 May
💬Today, HWAG took part in the multilateral EU-NATO-Ukraine webinar, “Countering #Disinformation in #Ukraine Together: What Role for the #EU and #NATO?”, represented by our Head, @OTsekhanovska. The event was organized by @EUDelegationUA and @NATOinUkraine. Image
🤝Oleksandra stressed that one of the key goals behind #Russia’s many disinformation campaigns is to undermine unity – both within target societies, finding the vulnerabilities and lines of division to exploit, and on the international arena, weakening alliances and partnerships.
How does disinformation attempt to reach this goal? Read the overview of the main points below:
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23 Apr
☝️Despite #Russia’s announcement of the withdrawal of its troops from the borders with #Ukraine starting from today, there are no grounds to believe the de-escalation is to happen soon (thread) ⤵️
unian.info/politics/russi…
In fact, only the personnel is to be withdrawn to their permanent bases. All the military equipment is staying near the eastern border with #Ukraine. This means that there is still danger that troops will be quickly pulled back again whenever the #Kremlin decides on it.
These facts confirm that still #RussiaEscalates its aggression against #Ukraine:
◾️#Russia keeps refusing bilateral negotiations with Ukraine on the escalation — #Putin agreed to meet the President of Ukraine but explicitly mentioned that discussing Donbas is out of the question;
Read 7 tweets
22 Apr
Here’s an update on how #RussiaEscalates its aggression towards #Ukraine (thread) 👇
#StopRussianAggression
⚡️Yesterday, at Putin's annual address to the Federal Assembly, he threatened the West with a harsh response to actions that, in his opinion, would threaten Russia's security. As we all know, they include Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression and its Euroatlantic aspirations
⚡️The Russian occupation forces have been stepping up measures to recruit locals of the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions for the so-called "military service" in its army corps since April 20.
Read 5 tweets
17 Apr
❗️#Russia continues its military build-up in #Crimea and the east of #Ukraine, here’s an update of its latest steps on escalation (thread):
🟥detention of a #Ukrainian diplomat by the #Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Saint-Petersburg;
🟥the 15 ships of the Caspian flotilla have been fully transferred to the Black Sea under the guise of military drills;
🟥relocation of Su-25SMZ attack aircraft from the Stavropol region to the airfields of the occupied #Crimea;
🟥transferring the Motorized infantry units of the 58th All-Arms Army of the Southern Military District of Russia to the Opuk firing range in the occupied Crimea;
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15 Apr
However impossible it seems, #Russian rhetoric concerning the escalation in #Ukraine is losing touch with reality even more. 🇷🇺Security Council Secretary says 🇺🇦 may “attack 🇷🇺” by starting military operations against #Crimea and prepare terrorist acts in 🇷🇺 and other countries⤵️
😡But what have the #Russian forces really been doing in the past few days while blaming #Ukraine for the escalation? Not contributing to peace, for sure:
📌moving the 15 Russian ships of the naval forces into the waters of the Black Sea under the guise of military drills;
📌blocking the movement of people across the demarcation line in the #Donetsk region;
📌remote mining of the territory within the humanitarian road corridor next to Mayorske checkpoint with a UAV on April 13, which put the lives of civilians at threat;
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