❗️Elon Musk reposted a fake story attributed to the American publication E! News about the alleged funding by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) of Western celebrities' visits to Ukraine.
✅ There is no such story on the official resources of E! News. Accordingly, the information shown in it is an invention of Russian propaganda.
❓ Spreading such lies discredits and devalues support for Ukraine among world leaders and cultural figures. Despite the blocking of X in Russia, Russian propaganda actively uses this social network to spread its own narratives.
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❗️The claim that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy purchased Hitler's house for $14.2 million is yet another fake spread by Russian propagandists through a supposedly German publication.
✅ The published article provides no real evidence to support this claim—there are no official records, contracts, or public data confirming such an event.
▫️ Moreover, the article lacks both a publication date and an author, which are typical markers of disinformation. The website used as the primary source of this story also omits editorial contact details, and the listed names are entirely fictitious.
⚡️ On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Russian media outlets are widely spreading narratives about the alleged “complicity of most European nations in Nazi crimes” and the West's alleged attempts to “rewrite history.”
▫️ Propagandists accuse the West of “downplaying Russia's role in liberating Europe from Nazism,” “reviving fascism,” and planning a “genocide of Russians.”
They are also circulating an interview with Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, filled with propaganda clichés about “whitewashing Nazi crimes” and “attempts to undermine Victory Day celebrations.”
⚡️ A Chinese company is ready to purchase the bankrupt Russian Inskoye coal mine.
▫️ The fate of the Inskoye mine highlights the broader challenges facing Russia’s coal industry, brought on by the war against Ukraine and sanctions.
With the loss of Western markets and declining domestic demand, the coal sector has struggled to fully pivot to Global South markets. On top of that, India and China have imposed duties on Russian coal.
As a result, Inskoye, like many other mines, has gone months without paying salaries, triggering strikes and even hunger strikes. Taking advantage of the situation, Chinese companies are buying Russian mines easily, further increasing Russia’s economic reliance on China.
⚡️ Key points from the speech of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the meeting of the Contact Group in the Ramstein format:
▫️ I am doing everything in my power to ensure that this war ends with dignity for both Ukraine and Europe this year.
▫️ Ending this war is our shared goal, but it is not Putin's. He is escalating his aggression.
▫️ Russia has already lost at least 4,000 soldiers from the DPRK.
▫️ Putin's ultimate goal is the complete destruction of Ukraine. We are actively seeking tools to prevent this, one of which is the deployment of partner contingents in Ukraine.
⚡️ Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has personally instructed that «patriotic works by contemporary authors» be included in the extracurricular reading lists for pupils.
This refers to so-called propagandist «Z-literature», which justifies the war against Ukraine and fosters hatred toward Ukrainians and the West.
Despite the propaganda efforts, such literature has limited appeal within Russia. However, it is mass-produced, published, and distributed using the state budget.
⚡️ The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service is allocating significant resources to build infrastructure aimed at spreading propaganda in the West and the Global South.
Firms masquerading as advertising agencies are being established to conduct large-scale information campaigns serving Russia's interests. These activities are overseen by Sergey Kiriyenko, head of the presidential administration of Russia.
▫️ To obscure the “Russian trace,” such companies create shell entities and appoint individuals with no apparent ties to Russia as their managers.