Russia preparing information provocation for last days of prisoner exchange - intelligence

In the last days of the prisoner exchange (June 20), the aggressor country of russia is preparing the culmination of a large-scale information campaign to discredit Ukraine. The decision to launch it was made personally by russian dictator vladimir putin. This was reported by the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine.

According to intelligence, one of the first deputies of the head of the russian presidential administration is responsible for coordinating the actions of officials and the instant "response" of the russian media.

The main goal of the campaign is to undermine trust in the Ukrainian authorities both among the military and their families, and among the international community. Kremlin media and bloggers are spreading manipulative statements, accusing Ukraine of "refusing to take its own people" and "inaction" in returning the bodies of the killed.

"They constantly produce emotionally charged content, manipulate statistical data, and immediately and irrevocably interpret any technical delays in the exchange process as deliberate actions of the Ukrainian authorities and an unwillingness to return their citizens," the report says.

The campaign includes not only pro-russian russian-language sources, but also a number of marginal European resources, including the Hungarian Magyar Nemzet and Magyar Hírlap, the Czech CZ24.news, the Slovak Jednotné Slovensko, and the French-language Réseau International. Their goal is to legalize russian fakes in the European information space. Among such narratives: "Ukraine refuses to accept the bodies of its dead", "the bodies of almost six thousand soldiers have not yet been returned to Ukraine", "the relatives of the dead will have to wait longer due to the inaction of the Ukrainian authorities".

The culmination of the campaign is planned for the last days of the exchanges (preliminarily June 20). The final part of this should be the deliberate introduction into the media of distorted (untrue) lists of Ukrainian military and civilian casualties allegedly identified by the russians.

"In this way, russia hopes to provoke a wave of panic and indignation in Ukrainian society and shift responsibility for the crimes committed onto the Ukrainian authorities," the intelligence service added.

We will remind, on June 12, a group of seriously wounded and seriously ill military personnel was released from Russian captivity, some of whom were considered missing.