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By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert Russia’s mass deportation of Ukrainian children is a crime against humanity, a new United Nations investigation has found. Published this week by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, the report concluded that following the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, Kremlin officials “at the highest level” have overseen large-scale deportations from […]

By EUvsDisinfo Tanks or missiles are no longer the main weapon in the attacks on democratic societies. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) has become one of the defining security and foreign policy challenges of the 2020s along with other hybrid threats. The term may sound technical, but the threat is anything but abstract, referring […]

By EUvsDisinfo Ukraine has emerged from its harshest wartime winter with its energy system battered by relentless Russian strikes designed to freeze civilians into submission. At the same time, a sustained FIMI campaign sought to spin the blackouts into narratives of Ukrainian weakness, division and European fatigue – claims starkly disproven by sustained public and […]

By EUvsDisinfo Key Takeaways Kremlin messaging has wasted little time pivoting toward the Middle East and Iran. A key objective has been to link Ukraine to the conflict. Disinformation narratives included attempts to tie the 2014 Maidan protests to broader regional instability and claims that Ukraine could stage a ‘provocation’ to regain international attention. The […]

By EUvsDisinfo Key Takeaways Kremlin messaging has wasted little time pivoting toward the Middle East and Iran. A key objective has been to link Ukraine to the conflict. Disinformation narratives included attempts to tie the 2014 Maidan protests to broader regional instability and claims that Ukraine could stage a ‘provocation’ to regain international attention. The […]

By Sopo Gelava, for DFRLab A coordinated Facebook network funnels users from groups to dailystandart, a monetized website publishing fabricated and misleading articles A Bulgarian website publishing fabricated or misleading articles generates revenue through the Adskeeper native ads platform, with a coordinated Bulgarian Facebook network driving traffic to the site. The Facebook network (two pages, nine […]

By Elina Beketova, for EUvsDisinfo Since Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the outbreak of hostilities in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, residents of Ukraine’s temporarily occupied territories (TOT) have faced a steadily tightening system of information control. This process accelerated dramatically after Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Today, an estimated 5 […]

By Timothy Snyder, for EUvsDisinfo This article reflects key arguments from a debate hosted by the European External Action Service (EEAS) on 16 January 2026 Ukraine is central to European history One of the most persistent distortions in discussions about Russia’s war against Ukraine is the assumption that Ukraine is historically marginal, an “edge case” […]

By EUvsDisinfo This week, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service rehashed old claims that European countries were planning to give Ukraine a nuclear weapon. FIMI narratives accused Ukraine and the United Kingdom of planning pipeline sabotages. And lastly, unfounded claims were spread about the Gulf states asking Russia to become the guarantor of peace in the […]

By EUvsDisinfo Have you ever paused at a glossy video promising that somewhere out there, families flourish effortlessly, women glow with confidence, and there are simply no gender issues to speak of? A growing chorus of YouTubers and lifestyle commentators, often paid by the Kremlin, paints precisely that picture of Russia. In their telling, it is […]

China’s Digital Silk Road has become a central channel through which Beijing engages Global South countries on digital infrastructure and, increasingly, artificial intelligence. By Kenton Thibaut, Iria Puyosa, Konstantinos Komaitis, for DFRLAb BANNER: Cover imagery derived from the Catalan Atlas (1375) by Abraham Cresques, held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Digital scan sourced from Wikimedia Commons. […]

Euronews did not publish such a story. Propagandistists generated voiceovers using artificial intelligence, supplemented them with stock footage, and edited them together with a fragment of a real Euronews video A video with the Euronews television channel logo is spreading online. In it, a reporter from Dubai allegedly claims that the biggest threat facing the […]

The claim does not appear on any of USA Today’s official platforms, and Parker Hempel, the ISW analyst cited in the video, has no record of making the statements attributed to him. Iran’s missile arsenal draws exclusively from Soviet and North Korean design lineages, and U.S.-manufactured systems are mechanically incompatible with Iranian launch infrastructure. The […]

New reports underline how Chinese artificial intelligence models spout distortions about Ukraine and more. By Sarah Cook, for CEPA The Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service’s 2026 International Security Report contained a startling finding. It tested the Chinese open-source AI model DeepSeek for biased or incomplete answers.   “When discussing issues related to Estonia’s security, DeepSeek conceals key information and inserts Chinese propaganda […]

By Julia Davis, for CEPA The fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was a solemn occasion for state TV’s propagandists. Their long faces gave away just how much things have changed. On February 21, 2022, Margarita Simonyan, head of RT, a Kremlin propaganda outlet, demanded champagne in the studio and described her euphoria about the […]

By EUvsDisinfo Over the past week, pro-Kremlin FIMI outlets smeared Ukrainian athletes at the Olympics, declared France on the road to authoritarianism, and tried to deflect attention from a report on Navalny’s poisoning by pointing to the Epstein files. And that was just the beginning. Let’s have a look. For the Kremlin, disinformation is a […]

By Peter Dickinson, for UkraineAlert As the world marks the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale Ukraine invasion this week, we can expect to see plenty of praise in the international media for the remarkable resilience of the Ukrainian people. This is thoroughly deserved. After all, whether we’re talking about holding back one of the world’s most […]

By EUvsDisinfo If history is the assembled repository of records from the past, culture is the process that brings it to life. The repository can be curated, files omitted, branches deleted — reshaping what appears authoritative. In Ukraine’s case, altered archives and displaced artefacts sought to impose a different version of the past. Yet culture does not […]

In fact, the United Nations has formally documented war crimes in Bucha through multiple reports issued by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. These investigations confirm extrajudicial executions, supported by satellite imagery and forensic analysis. Claims based on “anonymous conversations in the corridors” are being circulated to cast doubt on […]

By EUvsDisinfo Throughout 2025, Russian officials were repeatedly shut out of the governing bodies of international organisations – a direct consequence of Kremlin’s unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine and its escalating campaign of hybrid interference worldwide. A glimpse of what’s to come? 2025 was a bad year for Russia’s international standing. As Andrii Sybiha, […]