Russian propaganda is actively spreading fake news, President Volodymyr Zelensky left Kyiv amid massive missile strikes. But this information is not true.
The Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security informs that a fake is spreading over the network, they say, Zelensky fled Kyiv. Enemy telegram channels spread the lie that Zelensky is supposedly in a bunker in the West or even in Poland.
Russia disperses a number of fakes amid rocket attacks
These messages are fake! Zelensky continues to fulfill his duties in Kyiv, the message says.
The Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security recalled that the Russians distributed the corresponding fakes on February 24. We add that Zelensky recorded an appeal to the Ukrainians from Kyiv.
Zelensky's appeal due to the massive attack: video
The Center for Countering Disinformation urges:
- not to panic;
- not to create artificial excitement in grocery stores and pharmacies;
- not to spread unverified information;
- do not distribute photos/videos of arrivals/explosions
- trust only official sources of information.
Strikes on civilian infrastructure and the civilian population, the enemy wants to persuade Ukraine to negotiate on its own requirements,” the CPI noted.
The Center for Counteracting Disinformation reported that Russia had spread a number of fakes, among which an offensive had allegedly begun from Belarus, but the Chernihiv OVA denied this is what they said that the situation on the border is under control.
The Russians also spread a fake, supposedly about the offensive that had begun along the entire front line. In addition, the enemy is spreading misinformation, saying that all infrastructure facilities in Ukraine have been destroyed and a mass evacuation of embassy employees in Ukraine has begun.
