“Budanov in a coma,” “New Jerusalem,” and “HAMAS obtaining Ukrainian weapons”: Top 10 spins by Russian propaganda in 2023
Disinformation is an integral part of Russian aggression against Ukraine, unleashed in 2014. Since the full-scale invasion, Kremlin propaganda has generated a wide range of absurd fake stories, with some of them becoming fertile ground for memes, including those of “combat mosquitoes” and a “dirty bomb”.