CCD tells how foreigners spread russian propaganda among children in occupied territories

Russian propagandists use the New Year holidays to carry out ideological indoctrination of children in the temporarily occupied territories, disguising it as "charity". They also involve foreigners loyal to the Kremlin. This is stated in a report by the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) under the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC).

Thus, according to the CCD, a so-called children's holiday was held in the Donetsk puppet theater, organized with the participation of "citizens of EU countries". The event is presented as a "warm humanitarian initiative", but its content and rhetoric are clearly anti-Western and propagandistic in nature.

It is noted that the key figure of the event was Finnish journalist Kosti Heiskanen, who has long and systematically cooperated with russian state propaganda. In his speech, he told the children about the "zombified EU governments" and the "global lies of the West."

"It is especially cynical that the objects of this propaganda are children from temporarily occupied territories. Under the guise of care, they are forced to adhere to political loyalty to the aggressor state, form a distorted picture of the world, and instill anti-Ukrainian and anti-Western attitudes from an early age," the Center emphasizes.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, russian propagandists continue to lie about control over Kupyansk.