Resorting artistic images when government politics do not allow the use of a direct term is a classic propaganda technique. In particular, the image of a "loop" is used in the absence of an environment, which is a clear concept despite the definition.

For example, pro-Russian telegram channels from the "SBU list" increasingly call the combat situation in Severodonetsk a "loop." Propagandists refer to closed data obtained from British intelligence, according to which the Russian army is allegedly deliberately not closing the loop so that more Armed Forces soldiers fall into the trap. We cannot deny or confirm this information, but we pay attention to the manipulative nature of the concept used.

They also compare the situation to the "Anaconda Plan" concept during the American Civil War, which aimed to "suppress" trade by cutting off the connection between the east and west of the Confederacy. In fact, the famous name was invented by journalists, and historians are debating the effectiveness of the plan.

The Kremlin media is spreading disinformation that Liz Truss insists on returning Ukraine to the negotiations and connecting the Baltic countries and Poland to the negotiation process, the Center for Countering Disinformation at the NSDC warns.

In fact, on June 16, Liz Truss announced the UK government's support for Ukraine.

According to the Kremlin media, in this way, the region's residents want to "secure themselves" and "liberate their territories." StopFake wrote that the statement about the "formation of a battalion of volunteers to protect against the Armed Forces" in Zaporizhzhia was made by a collaborator of Balytskyi, who has nothing to do with the official Ukrainian authorities.

Fact-checkers drew attention to the fact that the occupiers appointed former regional People's Deputy Yevhen Balytskyi as the head of the administration. On May 26, the SSU announced that he was suspected of treason. According to the Armed Forces, the city of Zaporizhzhia is under the full control of the Ukrainian army. In addition, Russia violated the Geneva Conventions by mobilizing Ukrainians in the occupied territories, the fact-checkers added. Read more.

Suppose such a thing is reported on social networks; in that case, it is a provocation or deliberate information sabotage - write the fact-checkers of the "NotaYenota" initiative, referring to the Kyiv City Blood Center.

In messages, the enemy tries to appeal to emotions: first, to point out that the army lacks something; secondly, to summarize significant losses. Mention of a specific group is pseudo-specific, fact-checkers write. Instead, people spread fake emotional messages out of a desire to help.