Publications

6 months ago

Banksy and 'ungrateful' Ukrainians: propaganda falsified street artist's post

Reports of the sale on eBay of the artist's graffiti on a building in Borodianka can be found only on Russian websites

6 months ago

Russian propaganda in Latin America: What online media in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil tell about Ukraine

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the media landscape of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico based on the monitoring conducted by LetsData, a Ukrainian startup, in partnership with Media Detector NGO September 12-25 to find out what online media in Latin America tell about Ukraine, and how Russian propaganda affects this information space.

6 months ago

Conspiracy and old fakes. How Russian propaganda reacted to verdict in MH17 case

On November 17, The Hague District Court passed a verdict in the MH17 case, finding three Russian militants – Russians Igor Girkin and Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian citizen Leonid Kharchenko — guilty of shooting down an airliner of Malaysian Airlines and sentencing them to life imprisonment. The court also found that Boeing was shot down by the Russian Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which was located in the territory controlled by the Russian proxy forces, whom Russia controlled and provided with weapons.

6 months ago

How Russians are trying to pacify occupied territories. Key propaganda messages

Despite the defeats, retreat, and escape from Kharkiv and Kherson regions, the occupiers do not abandon their attempts to integrate the Ukrainian lands they have invaded, including by driving their residents into the Russian information matrix.

6 months ago

How Russian propaganda developed idea of the British being fascinated by Russian soldier

Russian propaganda is manipulating comments on the social media pages of Western publications and politicians

6 months ago

Putin confirms title of wannabe historian

Last time, it was a loser artist who plunged the world into a global war. And now a wannabe historian is being guided in international politics by his “historical logic,” detached from reality.

6 months ago

Why Ukraine’s victory is in the interest of environmental protection

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security investigated examples of how the Russian war is affecting the environment.

6 months ago

‘5,000 Polish mercenaries’ that exist only in Russian media reports

Amid military defeats, Russia continues to spread fakes about foreign mercenaries fighting on Ukraine’s side

6 months ago

Evolution of the West’s support for Ukraine over October 2022

October 2022 brought new challenges to Ukraine and the democratic world. After the September victories in Kharkiv oblast, Ukraine faced the notorious pseudo-referendums, and “brotherly” Russia started terrorist attacks against energy infrastructure. The propaganda was also savoring the look of burning cars in the center of Kyiv.  

6 months ago

Why Russian state-run media have no place in civilized world

The Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security analyzed the content of Russian and foreign offices of RT and the most explicit cases to explain why the Russian state-run media do not belong in the media space of the civilized world. 

6 months ago

How Putin's Justification for Invading Ukraine Backfired

Vladimir Putin's claimed protection of the Russian language and rights of Russian-speaking Ukrainians were his key justifications for the invasion of Ukraine.

6 months ago

Russia spreads fake news about infected donor blood for Ukrainian army from NATO

Fake news is based on a fabricated letter from Ukraine's health minister to prime minister.

6 months ago

‘Low-quality forgery’: Warsaw debunks fake about graffiti with Zelensky

A picture showing a 3D graffiti with Volodymyr Zelensky allegedly on one of the central streets of Poland’s capital with the caption "A ‘black hole’ named after Zelensky was found in Warsaw" went viral on Telegram channels of Russian mass media and top propagandists.

6 months ago

Who created fake about Zelensky for Indian magazine

The caricature image from a weekly magazine’s non-existent issue is distributed by pro-Russian users to the English-speaking audience

6 months ago

“Booms” and “gestures of goodwill.” How Russia uses newspeak in war on Ukraine

For years, Russian officials and media have referred to explosions as “booms,” to fires – as “smoke spread,” and floods – “minor flooding.” Hence, not the war on Ukraine, but a “special military operation.”

6 months ago

Deportation, not evacuation. Why Kremlin pursues forcible displacement of population from Kherson region

Given the successful counter-offensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south of Ukraine and the liberation of dozens of villages on the right bank of the Dnipro, the Russian occupiers resorted to the mass displacement of the population of the Kherson region to the left bank.

7 months ago

Europe must make this the last winter of weaponized Russian energy exports

Ukrainians are currently preparing for what is likely to be the most difficult winter in the country’s modern history. With Russia losing on the battlefield, the Kremlin has resorted to the tactics of total war and is attempting to destroy Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure.

7 months ago

How Russian terrorists accuse Ukraine of… terrorism

In a few months of the full-scale war with Ukraine, the Kremlin has resorted to various ways to increase the degree of hatred and escalation.

7 months ago

Terror as сornerstone of “Russian world”

After the crimes exposed outside Kyiv where the Russian army in March shot at unarmed residents, the Kremlin continues explore a portal into the dark barbaric past of humanity, when ruthless violence, torture, and intimidation was common practice. 

7 months ago

“Dirty bomb” is back. Why Russia reanimated the old fake story

The statement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, echoed by a chorus of Russian propaganda platforms, once again revived in the public space Ukraine’s “dirty bomb” topic. It was presented as the Kremlin’s traditional horror story, the same type that alleged U.S. biolaboratories in Ukraine, Kyiv’s chemical weapons, and gender-related education programs.

7 months ago

Life span of a Russian mobilized: Losses data analysis

On September 21, 2022, Putin changed the life of an entire generation of Russian civilians to “before” and “after” mobilization.

7 months ago

How Kremlin propaganda adjusts its playbook amid Russian army’s battlefield failures

Blinded by its own propaganda, Russia was not ready for defeat in the war against Ukraine, so it was forced to correct its own rhetoric hastily. 

7 months ago

Killed in their own homes. Putin’s war with residential districts

On Thursday, October 13, an 11-year-old boy died in a Mykolaiv hospital. He became the sixth victim of yet another strike by the Russians on one of the city’s apartment blocks. For six long hours, the child had remained trapped under the rubble of the house destroyed by the Russian S-300 missile.

7 months ago

Secretly pro-Russian Telegram channels: What Russia wanted Ukrainians to think during Oct 10 attack

The network of Telegram channels posing as Ukrainian but supervised by Russian special services, including Legitimny, Rezident, Zhenshchina s kosoy, Olga Shariy, Anatoliy Shariy, once again exposed their Kremlin roots while covering the strikes Putin’s terrorists launched on the Ukrainian infrastructure on October 10. 

7 months ago

"New stage of dismantling Ukraine" and "not a one-time event": Change in rhetoric of Kremlin’s propagandists regarding missile attacks on Ukraine

After the massive Russian missile attack on Ukraine on October 10 and 11, the “it’s not us” theme earlier spun by Kremlin propagandists turned into “let’s do it again” and “it’s high time.” Russian TV channels were flooded with videos of the aftermath of the strikes and various maps of missile attacks and reports of explosions in Ukrainian cities were circulated across Telegram channels in real-time.

7 months ago

About an ‘all-female prisoner exchange’

"We were tortured with electric current, beaten with hammers, hung, and scalded with boiling water"... Testimonies of Ukrainian women released from Russian captivity 

7 months ago

Sanctional isolation of Russia and Its consequences: Where Russia is moving, and what propaganda says in this regard

On October 6, the European Union adopted the eighth package of sanctions against Russia due to the attempted annexation of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson regions of Ukraine.

7 months ago

Speech by President Zelensky at PACE's autumn plenary session

Protecting Ukraine's skies against Russian missile terror this year would be a fundamental step toward ending the war.

7 months ago

‘Small accession’ to the EU: The first outcomes of the ‘customs visa-free regime’ for Ukraine

The practical benefits of the ‘customs visa-free regime’ include the improvement in logistics and the increased competitive capacity of Ukrainian-produced goods in Europe

7 months ago

Nuclear weapons, Sarmat missiles, and escalation of war: How Kremlin propaganda blackmails European countries

In the research of Kremlin narratives concerning blackmail and threats against Europe between June and September, it is evident that Russia has been intimidating European countries with “the use of nuclear weapons,” Sarmat missiles, and “inevitability of WW3.”