As the wait for for the long-anticipated Ukraine’s counteroffensive continues, Russian propaganda machine has started preparing the public for various scenarios.
📰 Last week, Russian propaganda media reported successful strikes on Western weapon systems in Ukraine, claiming the domination of Russian weapons:
“The Patriot systems are highly vulnerable. A working radar of a Patriot system gives out its local from miles away making it… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
📰 Another narrative that Russia's disinformation media were circulating last week was the claim that Russia had learned to target and destroy Ukraine’s HIMARS launchers.
According to Russian propaganda, the Russian army has found a weak spot in their guidance systems:
📰 Russia's propagandist media tried to convince their audiences that in light of the upcoming counteroffensive Russian army will be able to deal with the Western tanks as well:
❌“Russian army is ready to go hunting for Leopards.”
📰 At the same time, Russian media avoid saying why Russia did not secure air superiority in Ukraine before the Patriots have been delivered.
The bragging about the mighty Russian superweapons is one of the main narratives that Russia has been spreading to Western audiences.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
All the latest topics of Russian #disinformation are being tracked on our interactive #ddj dashboard “Disinformation about the War in Ukraine”.
Today, another reaction to our latest data research, "Roller Coaster," investigating the ecosystem of U.S. opponents of aid to Ukraine appeared on the Fox News website, describing as a “Biden-linked Ukraine group.” Texty.org.ua
This manipulative statement was based solely on the fact that photos and data of co-founder Anatoliy Bondarenko appeared on the TechCamp website, a U.S. government project.
In 2015, he gave lectures at TechCamp Kyiv at the organizers' invitation.Texty.org.ua
are finalists and winners in numerous international competitions in data visualisation and data journalism.
This is why, in 2015, TechCamp invited co-founder Anatoliy Bondarenko to be a trainer and share expertise at the event.Texty.org.ua Texty.org.ua
On Monday, US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that she is an "enemy of the state" in Ukraine.
Greene accused Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa for putting elected members of Congress “on their state KILL list”.
“Zelenskyy is the real enemy of democracy,” @RepMTG added. ⬇️
Greene’s post included an image that appears to show her name on a list from our recent research “Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists. The forces in the U.S. impeding aid to Ukraine and how they do it” ⬇️
▪️First & foremost, we are convinced that freedom of speech is an integral part of a democratic system. We reserve the right to openly & objectively examine issues that are key to our country’s survival, such as who the U.S. opponents of aid to Ukraine are & why they oppose it ⬇️
▪️ We choose the topics of our investigations ourselves & independently. Among other projects, we have created & maintained a database of fake Ukrainian sociologists & a database of Russian influence agents in EU countries ⬇️
We spent hundreds of hours searching for the right information. We burned a lot of brain cells to organize it into a system. We have been working hard for more than six months to give you the most complete picture: Who in the U.S. Opposes Aid to Ukraine?
Roller Coaster: From Trumpists to Communists, who is campaigning to cut off aid to Ukraine and how
Big picture + database + visualization + networks + key individuals and organizations: texty.org.ua/projects/11261…
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1️⃣ Russian propagandists tried to delegitimise the upcoming Global Peace Summit 🇨🇭, arguing that any meaningful resolution is impossible without Russia & that West is imposing its will on Russia while falsely portraying Moscow as a proponent of peace.
Recently, Petro Andriushchenko, an advisor to the mayor of Mariupol, published a map disclosing the scheme of railway tracks planned by the Russian authorities in the occupied territories of Ukraine.
"Everyone denies that Russians are pushing for the coastal railroad, which they haven't even built yet (in green). But on the map, I explicitly show which railway Putin referenced (in red). And you know what? It's our existing Ukrainian railway."