According to the EU and the USA, the Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine is being accompanied by the targeted spread of disinformation. “What we are seeing right now is that the narratives and the entire disinformation ecosystem are much more aggressive,” said EU analysts in Brussels. A strategy of pro-Kremlin actors is to Spreading uncertainty through many different perspectives. This included narratives such as that Ukraine has no real right to exist, actually belongs to the Russian cultural sphere and is just an agent of the West.
It was also observed that Ukraine was being accused of preparing chemical weapons attacks. the The dissemination of these narratives is clearly coordinated, even if no increase in the amount of disinformation has been observed so far.
The developments in the USA are assessed in a similar way. “The United States and our allies and partners are concerned by (…) the increasingly harsh rhetoric and propagation of false narratives,” US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan told journalists on Friday. Ukraine is accused of wanting to provoke a conflict.