In an effort to promote Moscow’s propaganda, Russian secret services organise fictive protests in the biggest cities in the West, as reported by European media.
In its Sunday issue German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung wrote that the point of these protests is generating anti-Ukrainian sentiment and impede Sweden’s joining of NATO.
Франкфурт. А может ну её нахуй эту Германию и в Брянск? Блядь самая мерзкая вата это зарубежная. Любители рузкого мира издалека. Мрази блядь pic.twitter.com/lLPnyeTu6n
— восхищённый болгарин™ (@dedzaebal) May 7, 2023
The study performed by Süddeutsche Zeitung together with German NDR and WDR public broadcasters, French Le Monde, Swedish Expressen and Scandinavian broadcasters DR, NRK and SVT is based on allegedly leaked documents from the Kremlin’s security apparatus.
Russia’s plans include simulating protests involving small groups of people in some European city against Turkey, with people pretending to be Ukrainians and protesting Turkey’s President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to generate content for online propaganda.
The objective of these protests is generating an impression about negative opinions about Islam in Europe.
One example of such operations from the Kremlin would be the protest by representatives of the Ukrainian community against Erdoğan in Paris in March, during which protesters used posters featuring him with his arm up in a Nazi salute. Victims of the massive earthquake that took place in Turkey on the 6th of February were also used in this protest.
Süddeutsche Zeitung reports Kremlin has yet to comment on these claims.
Authors of the study note that provocateurs had clearly infiltrated protests in other European cities dedicated to other topics, including shortage of nurses, pension reforms and climate change. The goal of these provocations is reducing support for Ukraine.
During protests in Paris, Hague, Brussels and Madrid, the same people used similar posters, Süddeutsche Zeitung claims.
Photos with these people are published on Facebook, Tiktok, Telegram and Youtube, creating the impression of widespread anti-Ukrainian sentiment.
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