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It has been more than 15 months since Russia launched its 3-day “special military operation” against Ukraine. As Russia’s war of aggression keeps dragging on with no victory in sight for the invaders, the…

The Kremlin reflexively turns to its favoured manipulation tactics of denial and aggressor/victim role reversal, but its propagandists have been preparing the information environment and spreading disinformation about the Kakhovka dam for months.

For over a year, Russian state-controlled outlets and pro-Kremlin pundits have been trying to convince themselves and the world that the forcible transfer and unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children to…

One and half years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and constant attacks against Ukrainian civilians, the Kremlin has the nerve to claim that ‘a war is being waged against it’.

Kremlin propagandists have declared Bakhmut ‘liberated’ even though it has been reduced to rubble. Plumes of smoke rising across a homeland left undefended may yet turn their premature joy into mourning.

The pro-Kremlin information manipulation ecosystem was all over the place last week, hammering several worn-out narratives and introducing a few novel nuances.

Since 2008, Victory Day celebrations of the defeat over Nazi Germany have become yearly and has turned into what some Russian opposition observers call ‘Victory Madness’ (победобесие).

By now, everyone should know the Kremlin’s horrific revisionist claims that ‘Ukraine is artificial, is not a state, with no right to exist, must be annexed / controlled’, ‘Ukrainian culture should be destroyed’ etc. ‘without victory there will be no Russia’.

Russian propaganda continues to promote the patriotic mobilization of its population, sometimes resorting to quite surrealistic methods.

The month of May is usually associated with joy, springtime, and the approaching summer. In the Russian info-sphere, this May is the second year of the full-scale war on Ukraine.