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Detector Media collects and documents real-time chronicles of the Kremlin disinformation about the Russian invasion. Ukraine for decades has been suffering from Kremlin disinformation. Here we document all narratives, messages, and tactics, which Russia is using from February 17th, 2022. Reminder: the increasing of shelling and fighting by militants happened on the 17th of February 2022 on the territory of Ukraine. Russian propaganda blames Ukraine for these actions.

On 17 May, on the 813th day of the full-scale war, our editorial office recorded:

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Manipulation
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Message
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Disclosure
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Message Ukraine lost its sovereignty back in 2014

This message is spread by Russian propaganda and anonymous telegram channels, in particular, the Redovka telegram channel, which refers to the words of propagandist and speaker of the State Duma Viacheslav Volodin. The report says that since 2014, Ukraine allegedly gradually lost its sovereignty. In addition, according to the authors, it also lost the favor of the people. Like, because the authorities could not care less about their people.

In fact, Ukraine is and remains a sovereign state. The entire civilized world has not recognized the illegal annexation of Ukrainian Crimea by Russia. And now, against the backdrop of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we remain allies of the West and we are actively supported by international partners: by supplying weapons, by diplomatic partnership, or, for example, by granting candidate status to the EU. In addition, the world does not recognize the latest pseudo-referendums and the creation of "people's republics".

With this message, propagandists are trying to undermine the authority of Ukraine and nourish the narrative that Ukraine is a failed country ruled by the West.

Disclosure The invaders force the Kherson people to move to the left bank of the Dnipro

The call to evacuate was spread by Putin during a meeting with so-called volunteers engaged in pseudo-evacuation. It states that the occupying authorities of Kherson declared that they must "immediately leave the city" and at the same time began a forced evacuation to the left bank of the Dnipro. Like, the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine can harm the civilian population.

As the analysts of the Center for Countering Disinformation report, in fact, the liberated houses of the Kherson people will allow the Russian military to settle there, and it will also reduce the number of pro-Ukrainian population that interferes with the occupiers.

Analysts claim that on a global scale, these actions are aimed at deporting Ukrainians to depressed regions of Russia.

Putin's desire not to harm civilians is an example of the cynicism of a propagandist dictatorship, and the call to "remove" the civilians of Kherson from the combat zone is presented as a "gesture of goodwill". The population that has left its homes is more easily subjected to manipulation and pressure from the infidels, which will play into the enemy's hands.

Message In addition to the Ukrainian military, the so-called hybrid NATO armed groups operate in the Kharkiv region

This message is spread by Russian propaganda and anonymous telegram channels, in particular, the telegram channel of the Russian propagandist "SOLOVIEV". The reports say that the territories of the Kharkiv region are allegedly captured by NATO troops. Like, the Ukrainian army dooms foreigners to inevitable death.

In fact, NATO troops do not take part in the war that Russia unleashed against Ukraine. “In response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine” NATO states that its actions are defensive, aimed not at provoking a conflict, but at preventing it. The Alliance is responsible for ensuring that this war does not unfold and spread beyond the borders of Ukraine. This means that NATO member countries prevent the expansion of the borders of the war by protecting their territories and providing the necessary weapons to Ukraine.

It is for this reason that NATO troops cannot participate in the war.

Propagandists spread such a message to justify their defeats at the front. Allegedly, Russia is fighting against the collective West. Russia has repeatedly tried to discredit the Alliance: it claimed that the military is weak and incompetent, calls NATO an LGBT organization, and so on.

Fake Armed forces of Ukraine commit provocations on the territory of Moldova

This information is spread by Russian propaganda after large-scale rocket attacks on Ukraine on October 31. Reports say the missile (which entered Moldovan airspace) was launched by Ukraine, ostensibly to thwart a Russian drone attack on the Dnister hydroelectric power station, located 25 km from the Moldovan border. However, this is not true.

According to the fact checker StopFake, referring to the data of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Moldova, it was a Russian missile that fell in the north of the country, and not a drone or some kind of Ukrainian projectile. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moldova stressed that the Russians attacked the Dnister hydroelectric power station on the territory of Ukraine, which is located just 10 kilometers from the Moldovan Naslavchansk hydroelectric power station. As a result of the professional actions of the Ukrainian military, the attack was repulsed, and the Russian missile was shot down, but its fragments caught several houses in the Moldovan Neslavchi.

According to the fact-checkers, for the first time since the start of a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia caused physical damage to a third state with its aggression.

This is not the first time that a Russian missile has been fixed in Moldovan airspace. For example, on October 10, during a massive air attack on Ukrainian cities, three Russian missiles also violated Moldovan airspace.

Disclosure The occupiers created a fake website of the Come Back Alive Foundation

A fake website of the Ukrainian army assistance fund appeared on the network, identical to the Ukrainian one. The Russians copied the look of the site, translated the materials and passed everything off as their own.

NotaYenota fact-checkers report that the Russians took a real article that the Come Back Alive Foundation raised more than $100 million in support of the army (of course, the Ukrainian one). However, in the fake version, all the meetings were transferred to the occupying army.

In addition, this fund does not have a Russian version, only Ukrainian and English.

We urge you not to visit suspicious third-party sites as this may threaten your privacy.

The Come Back Alive Foundation is an army assistance charitable fund whose goal is to make the defense forces more effective and systematically counter the enemy. The Foundation purchases equipment that helps to save the lives of the military people, and also raises funds for them.

Orest Slyvenko, Artur Koldomasov, Vitalii Mykhailiv, Oleksandra Kotenko, Oleksandr Siedin, Kostiantyn Zadyraka, and Oleksiy Pivtorak are collaborating on this chronicle. Lesia Bidochko serves as the project coordinator, while Ksenia Ilyuk is the author of the project.