The SBU uncovered three residents of Dnipropetrovsk region who spread in social networks the information with calls for protests on May holidays due-to lockdown.

Analysis of electronic correspondence proves coordination of their actions by Russian residents.

According to curators’ plan, the dissemination of fake information should have exacerbated the social and political situation in the country due to incitement of the population to riots.

The SBU cyber specialists uncovered and identified the owners of fake accounts who used it for dissemination of calls for encroachment upon the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Further analysis of information spread by Internet agitators also identified the calls for mass protests due-to lockdown in Ukraine.

The number of such publications increased significantly on the eve of May holidays.

The SBU operatives established that Russians forced one of the agit-props to publish the information with calls for trespass against Ukrainian integrity. They threatened a man with deportation of his mother who works in Moscow.

Under the legal supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office in Dnipropetrovsk region, the law enforcement carried out the searches and seized offenders’ equipment.

The SBU served a notice of suspicion to one of the agit-props for trespass against territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine. Procedural actions are ongoing regarding other offenders.

Actions to expose and document other sources of dissemination of information prohibited by Ukrainian legislation are ongoing.