The SSU collected evidence on another three enemy propagandists engaged in information and subversive activities against Ukraine.

The offenders were actively disseminating fakes about the internal political situation in Ukraine and discrediting the Defence Forces.

To spread destructive content, they used their own Internet resources, closely linked to russian special services and their bot farms.

The latter provide massive publicity through artificial ‘increase’ of the number of subscribers and ‘positive’ responses to information inputs.

As a result of an investigation, a Kyiv blogger was served a notice of suspicion for spreading disinformation on the AFU’s logistics.

To spin the fakes, the author used the publication ‘UPN’, in particular the YouTube channel with the same name.

It has been established that the blogger’s stories were regularly used by russian intelligence and kremlin propagandists to prepare and conduct information sabotage.

In addition, the suspect was involved in an attempt to organize paid ‘protests’ in Kyiv in an effort to undermine the internal situation in the capital.

Based on the collected evidence, the blogger is suspected of:

• insulting the honour and dignity of a serviceman, threatening a serviceman (Article 435-1 of the CCU);
• actions aimed at forceful change or overthrow of constitutional order or seizure of state power (Article 109).

Another enemy accomplice is a blogger from the temporarily occupied Crimea who runs several YouTube channels with a total audience of over 1.5 million subscribers.

In his videos, he publicly justifies russia’s armed aggression and the seizure of the Ukrainian peninsula.

This person is a frequent guest of the kremlin propagandists’ live TV broadcasts, including Solovyov’s talk show.

The blogger has been notified of suspicion under the Articles 111-1 and 436-2 of the CCU (collaboration and justification, recognition as lawful, denial of russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine).

The SSU also documented criminal actions of a former resident of Odesa, currently hiding in the temporarily occupied Donetsk for subversive activities against Ukraine.

In June 2021, the individual created a Telegram channel ‘Novorossia’s ghost’, where he called to raise money to support russian occupation forces.

The SSU is acting to bring the persons involved to justice for crimes against Ukraine.

The SSU is conducting the investigations under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor General’s Office and Odesa Region Prosecutor’s Office.