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The emergency situation in Ukraine’s power grid is a direct consequence of Russia’s barbaric policy of destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Ukraine is fully synchronized with the European power grid, so technological problems in a country’s system could affect the system of a neighboring state. Amid power outages in several Ukrainian regions and neighboring Moldova, Russian […]

The video is a fabrication designed to mimic the visual language of a mainstream news outlet. While Spain has experienced a series of railway accidents in recent months, none has been designated a terrorist attack by authorities. The misleading clip repurposes footage from a genuine tragedy — the collision of two high-speed trains in southern […]

Both the video and the data in it are fabricated. In fact, as of 2025, the level of trust of Europeans in the EU has reached record levels. Young people have traditionally been particularly supportive of EU membership. A video is being circulated online, mostly on pro-Russian sources, claiming that European youth are supposedly ready […]

The circulation of multiple fabricated videos carrying the branding of French and international media outlets points to a coordinated information operation targeting Ukrainian refugees in France. These clips present invented “news,” falsely attributing serious crimes to Ukrainians and citing data that does not exist, in an effort to portray refugees as a public threat and […]

By Iryna Subota, for EUvsDisinfo In December 2024, Telegram began restricting access to channels of Russian propaganda resources sanctioned in the EU. However, a study by the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law revealed a wide range of tools used to bypass the ban. The persistence of Russian information manipulation and interference (FIMI) in the EU […]

Russians are quoting a Finnish politician, who isn’t well-known and regularly appears on the Russian propaganda channel RT. In fact, only 11% of Finnish citizens regret joining NATO. With dramatic headlines like “Finland calls NATO membership a terrible mistake,” a quote from Armando Mema, a member of the Finnish Freedom Alliance party, is being circulated […]

In fact, the funds under the AgoraEU program are intended to improve access to reliable information, combat fake news and foreign influence. The initiative is criticized mainly because it is not yet known how the funding will be distributed. News is circulating online that the European Commission is allegedly planning to allocate an additional €7 […]

By EUvsDisinfo Russian attacks against energy facilities in winter were designed to freeze Ukraine into submission. Russian disinformation narratives justify these attacks and blame Ukraine’s leadership for them. Targeted attacks to break Ukraine’s resistance Russia has recently used a bitter cold snap in Ukraine to inflict terrible pain upon Ukrainian citizens by attacking the country’s energy infrastructure. […]

By Fiona Greenland, for EUvsDisinfo Russia’s foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations are diverse, entrenched, well-resourced, and coordinated. They are also linked globally to culture through ‘Cultural Heritage Exploitation’, or CHX. CHX is a multi-institutional endeavour with spatial, temporal, cognitive, and material aspects. In practice, it fuses pro-Russian historical propaganda to cultural objects, and it is […]

This is a clear case of manipulation: the personal opinion of a publicist and a non-binding parliamentary resolution are being presented as France’s official position, creating the misleading impression that the country is preparing to exit both the EU and NATO. Several Russian media outlets and Telegram channels have circulated reports citing unnamed “experts,” claiming […]

Kyiv does not target civilian populations in Russia and adheres to international law. Discussions with Western partners regarding long-range weaponry are strictly limited to military objectives and Russian military infrastructure. Amid ongoing talks among Western allies over providing Ukraine with U.S. Tomahawk long-range missiles, Russian propaganda escalated a disinformation campaign. Seeking to undermine a potential […]

The Irish school admissions process operates under strict legal guidelines and contains no «lottery» mechanism that privileges migrants or Ukrainian refugees over local students. Social media posts circulating in Ireland allege that local families must enter a «lottery» to secure school placements, claiming Ukrainian refugees and other migrants are given priority. In reality, Ireland has […]

This video was generated using artificial intelligence (AI). «An ordinary day in Ukraine». This is how propaganda sources captioned a video in which a so-called «Syrian mercenary» allegedly prays in an ATB grocery store. Predictably, the Russian audience reacted to the video with a load of racist and xenophobic remarks. However, the ten-second video circulating […]

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin’s planners prepared well for their full-scale invasion of Ukraine, building up currency reserves and later boosting growth through military spending. But the Russian economy is beginning to show signs of weakness as Moscow’s illegal war continues. For years, Russian state outlets and pro-Kremlin commentators have boasted of Russia’s great economy despite Western sanctions […]

Ukraine’s international partners have made no such statements. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas emphasized that European allies remain committed to providing Kyiv with the support needed to navigate the autumn-winter period. Amid intensified Russian airstrikes targeting Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure, pro-Kremlin media have stepped up information-psychological pressure on the population. Following a familiar pre-winter playbook, […]

The Guardian never published any report alleging that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson encouraged Kyiv to prolong the war with Russia in exchange for a «bribe.» The claim was entirely fabricated by Russian propaganda outlets, which falsely cited the newspaper to lend their disinformation an air of legitimacy. Kremlin-linked outlets and social media accounts […]

The State Administration of Defense has previously reported on the data received from the satellite. As of June 2024, the satellite had taken and transmitted to the department over four thousand images. A number of both Russian and Ukrainian sources stated that the Defense Ministry had never received any data from the so-called Prytula’s satellite […]

By EUvsDisinfo On 4 and 5 October, Czech voters went to the polls to elect a new parliament. And the Kremlin once again saw an opportunity to interfere in other countries’ democratic processes as it has done in Moldova, in Poland, in Georgia, and elsewhere. Specifically, outlets reported that coordinated networks of TikTok bot accounts pushed pro-Russian narratives that portrayed Russian President Vladimir […]