Russia continues to attempt to destabilize Ukraine through its disinformation campaign called Peace. In particular, the Russians are trying to intimidate the residents of Ukraine with the threat of new terrorist attacks and the undermining of the Kyiv hydroelectric power station and the Kaniv reservoir.
This was reported by the Center for Combating Disinformation (CPD) under the National Security and Defense Council after statements by Russian representatives about provocations at infrastructure facilities in the Kiev and Cherkassy regions.
Kiev hydroelectric power station and Kanevskoe reservoir: explanation of the threats to the Russian Federation from the CPD
Before this, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that Ukraine was allegedly preparing to destroy the dams of the Kyiv hydroelectric power station and the Kaniv reservoir, in order to then blame Russia for this.
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— With these statements the Kremlin is trying to cause panic among Ukrainians. At the same time, narratives about the need for “peace at any cost”, that is, de facto capitulation, are being thrown into Ukrainian society. The enemy expects that Ukrainians, under the influence of fear, will demand to make concessions to the Russian Federation, — explained in the CPD.
Despite Zakharova’s attempts to create an “alibi” before committing a terrorist attack, the Center continues to say, today Russia does not have the means and capabilities to destroy the dams near Kyiv and Kanev.
— It is impossible to destroy these objects with missile strikes, and the option of detonation due to sabotage is excluded, since the dams are under heavy security, — reported at the Center.
IPSO World — help: The Peace disinformation campaign that Russia is trying to promote involves disseminating a narrative among Ukrainians so that in a war with Russia, the Ukrainian population will agree to “peace at any cost”. The purpose of this information operation is to erode the Ukrainian Peace Formula in the information space of the West, the Global South and Ukraine.
Statements regarding the Kanevskaya and Kyiv dams are a continuation of threats from the Russian Federation
According to the military and political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko, who is also an expert at the Ukrainian Center for Security Research named after. Dmitry Tymchuk, Zakharova’s statements about the destruction of the Kyiv hydroelectric power station and the Kanev reservoir are not just blackmail, since this is already an outdated practice.
— Are they trying to intimidate us? Yes. But why and why? Russia is well aware of its stalemate, and that is why through all the resources available to it, from talkative heads of the LOM level (public opinion leaders, — Ed.) to corrupt politicians of the “Orban” level, impose in the information space there is a narrative about peace negotiations and “ceasefire”, — writes Kovalenko.
According to him, Russia influences the strengthening of this idea exclusively by ultimatum methods, and therefore in May, a month before the start of the peace summit in Switzerland, the Russian Federation launched an offensive in the Kharkov region, trying to intimidate everyone with what it allegedly has enough forces to continue the occupation of new territories of Ukraine and open new fronts.
Already in July, Kovalenko continues, on the eve of the anniversary NATO summit, Russia launched a terrorist missile attack on Ukraine and chose the destruction of civilian targets as a priority — Okhmatdyt Children's Hospital in Kyiv, another medical institution, residential buildings. According to the expert, this is nothing more than a direct threat “deal or we will continue to kill your children”.
— But this blackmail received harsh condemnation from the international community, and only talking heads, whose mental development is no higher than that of a snail, relayed the narrative of the need to put up with appropriate financial incentives. Now they are trying to intimidate us with large-scale disasters at hydroelectric power plants… which Russia is beyond the power to accomplish, but through his confident rhetoric the terrorist is trying to persuade us to his appeasement, but, as always, on his own terms, — he writes.
According to the expert, all this is happening because Russia is in a stalemate.
— I have repeatedly emphasized that 2024 — critical for the Russian military-industrial complex. Warehouses and storage centers containing Russian equipment are almost completely empty. There will soon be nothing to compensate for the loss of equipment on a monthly basis in the amount that is needed. Excessive human resources do not produce a quality effect. The effectiveness of offensive actions with maximum intensification — low. If we compare the events in the combat zone and the degree of intensification of Russian threats with a hint of peace negotiations and a ceasefire, then they are directly related to each other, — he explains.
Accordingly, Kovalenko believes, Russia, driven into a corner, will continue to “furiously attack” and “will try to bite as painfully as possible”.
