Thread by @StZaryn

Russian disinformation: situation report

Russia is adapting its #propaganda activities to the course of war it’s been waging against #Ukraine. As a country actively engaged in helping Ukraine, Poland is one of the prime targets of Russian information warfare efforts.
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The following are some of the identified anti-Polish narratives, including those in use for quite a while and completely new ones.

- Poles are most numerous among the mercenaries fighting alongside Ukraine (a narrative now heavily exploited)
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- #PL fighters are supporting Russia (an emerging narrative)
- #PL wants to seize UA (old narrative) + granting #UA an #EU candidate status serves this goal (new issue)
- Poland is dragging #NATO into war against Russia
- Poland is steeped in anti-Russian sentiment
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With regard to Russia’s information warfare activities against #Ukraine, the Kremlin keeps pushing a #propaganda campaign designed to smear and discredit the Ukrainian statehood and armed forces.
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Russia disseminates the following narratives:

- Ukraine’s ceased to exist in its previous borders
- #UA was founded on the fall of the #SovietUnion, its lands historically belong to RU
- UA should be erased from world map
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- #Kyiv stages anti-RU provocations, like the one in #BuchaMassacre
- this war stems from the 2014 bloody coup in UA
- UA' army is weak, broken and cruel to civilians
- #UA army presents rigged data on war losses
- #Kyiv extorts the military support from the West
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- Ukrainians hit civilian targets in Donetsk and Russia
- #UA wants to drag Moldova into war against Russia
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The Western community is also in the crosshairs of Russian #propaganda. The #Kremlin accuses the West of being hostile to Russia, having provoked the war and acting so as to prolong its duration and deepen its global consequences.
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Here are some of the anti-Western narratives:

- there are thousands of foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine
- Russia tried to reach a compromise with the West on #UA – in vain
- weapons supplied to UA by the West will only prolong the war
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- by blocking grain exports from #UA just to spite RU, the West causes food crisis
- for the West #UA is only a granary
- #UA will end up as a colony of the #EU
- anti-Russian sanctions take the heaviest toll on their Western authors
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