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By EUvsDisinfo IN SHORT: • Russia tries to shift blame for its deadly strikes on Kyiv.• Transnistria is used as a tool to destabilise Moldova.• Ukraine is being falsely accused of trying to drag the Baltic states into war with Russia. LAST WEEK IN REVIEW: Russia continued to combine military escalation with coordinated FIMI activity. […]

By Valentyna Shapovalova and Yuliia Dukach, for EUvsDisinfo According to Danish state authorities, there were no major foreign influence campaigns to speak of in the lead-up to Denmark’s March 2026 parliamentary election. Local fact-checkers and journalists tracked pro-Russian narratives and fringe propaganda channels, but nothing resembling a broad, coordinated campaign with significant reach emerged. Monitoring and analysis […]

By EUvsDisinfo Dating apps promise connection, chemistry, and maybe even love. For Ukrainian and Russian intelligence services, they also offer something else: data, emotional vulnerability, and a private channel to manipulate targets. When Russia launched its full-scale illegal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the front lines extended beyond the physical battlefield into the digital […]

Volodymyr Zelensky did not state that Ukraine is prepared to carry out a “pre-emptive strike on Belarus” or even to “attack Belarus first.” This quote distorts the meaning of his words: he was speaking about Ukraine’s right to respond preemptively to military threats and aggressive actions — not about attacking Belarusian territory. Russian Telegram channels […]

By Nikita Nalivko, for EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin’s intention to control its digital environment is not new. Even Russians’ most widely used messaging app, Telegram, was not spared from it. However, a failed 2018 effort to block the app exposed the limits of direct restriction. Despite regulatory pressure, the platform continued to operate, creating a ‘grey zone’ where […]

The story is based on the testimony of an “anonymous source” and first appeared on an account that describes itself as a parody account. Zelenska has made numerous public appearances since the claims about her alleged “flight” first emerged. Pro-Russian outlets are rapidly spreading a report claiming that Olena Zelenska has fled the country, allegedly […]

Ukraine’s actual debt obligations to China are significantly smaller — approximately $830 million as of June 2024. No diplomatic approach by Zelensky to Beijing requesting a deferral, as claimed by the propagandists, has been recorded either. Russian propaganda outlets and anonymous Telegram channels are claiming that China refused Ukraine a deferral on debt repayment amounting […]

Emmanuel Macron did not say that Arabic would become an official language of France, nor did he call for its mandatory study in French schools. Speaking in Egypt, the French president did describe Arabic as the second most widely spoken language in France — but the remark came in the context of Francophonie, multilingualism, and […]

By Nika Aleksejeva, for DFRLAb A global, cross-platform pro-Kremlin information influence campaign falsely claimed that the European Union (EU) is losing €65-135 million ($76-159 million) every day as a result of sanctions against Russia. The narrative circulated widely online and echoed within Estonia’s Russian-language information space. The campaign promoted eulosses[.]com, which portrayed itself as promoting the […]

The EU imposed sanctions on Russian organizations and officials implicated in the abduction of Ukrainian children and their forced “re-education.” Russian state media have amplified a fabricated claim that “decaying Europe” has sanctioned “children” and “their rescuers.” The propaganda campaign has escalated to open threats against EU member states: “The special military operation must end […]

By EUvsDisinfo KEY EVENTS LAST WEEK IN REVIEW Russia’s Victory Day saw a surge of disinformation, with the Kremlin weaponising history to justify its war. Pro-Moscow outlets falsely painted Ukraine as a ‘‘Nazi state’’ for rejecting Russia’s May 9 celebrations, ignoring Kyiv’s alignment with Europe’s May 8 remembrance. Meanwhile, threats of Ukraine’s ‘’total destruction’’ for […]

The quote attributed to Podolyak is a fabrication. It originated on a satirical Telegram channel that explicitly identifies itself as a publisher of “fakes,” and the image accompanying the posts was lifted from an earlier interview on an unrelated topic. Posts circulating on social media attribute to Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to Ukraine’s Office of the […]

By Konstantinos Komaitis, for DFRLAb In early 2026, the European Commission was forced to confront a critical vulnerability in its secure communications: the human element. Following intelligence warnings that attackers were compromising Signal accounts through social engineering and impersonation, rather than by breaking the underlying encryption, the Commission took the unprecedented step of ordering senior officials to shut down […]

By EUvsDisinfo The Kremlin has long injected propaganda into the Russian educational system in order to boost the ‘patriotism’ of Russian youth. Putin’s future ‘child soldiers’ not only take part in regular flag raisings, anthem singings, and meetings with ‘heroes’ of the ‘special military operation’ (‘SVO’) in Ukraine. They also participate in drone assembly and other types […]

By EUvsDisinfo ‘We didn’t kidnap anyone’, Russia’s then-ambassador to the US, Anatoly Antonov, insisted in 2023. ‘We saved these children’. The ambassador was not simply denying the systematic deportation and forcible transfer of Ukrainian children by Russian occupation forces in Ukraine, a crime for which there is a growing body of evidence from international organisations, […]

The Russian Ministry of Defense did not spare central Kyiv out of humanitarian concern. From the opening days of the full-scale invasion, Russian forces have carried out systematic missile and drone strikes against residential areas, hospitals, and civilian infrastructure across Kyiv, including its central districts. The ministry’s own statement undercuts its humanitarian framing further: it […]

A study by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that a majority of Ukrainians are firmly opposed to withdrawing Ukrainian troops from Donetsk Oblast or ceding the region to Russia in exchange for security guarantees. Russian propaganda outlets circulated claims that Ukrainians had entered a “stage of accepting the realities of the special military […]

The documents allegedly confirming the purchase are a low-quality forgery. The story, which spread online in several languages simultaneously, bears all the hallmarks of a targeted disinformation campaign. A story is circulating online claiming that Anastasiia Fedorova, the wife of Defense Minister and former Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, has allegedly become the owner of […]

The story rests on a forged screenshot attributed to the British tabloid The Mirror and is not corroborated by any credible source. CNN has issued no statement on the matter. The identity of the woman shown in the video has not been established, and nothing links her to Ukraine. Posts circulating across social media and […]

By Digital Forensic Research Lab A China-linked Spamouflage network is targeting Tibetans with growing sophistication but limited reach. A Chinese influence operation consisting of ninety Facebook profiles and thirteen Instagram profiles is targeting the April 26 elections for the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile. The operation is connected to a larger network that posts narratives about the Philippines, the […]