EUvsDisinfo

Many call disinformation the biggest threat to democracies, yet influence ops go beyond false claims. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) means efforts to manipulate info, distort debate, influence elections, and erode trust in democratic institutions.

From @EUvsDisinfo The 4th EEAS Report on #FIMI Threats came out today. Key findings relevant to Armenia: EEAS documents a direct pivot of Russian FIMI infrastructure from #Moldova elections to #Armenia (June 2026 elections) Our digest: factcheck.lt/news/eeas-4th-…

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The 4th EEAS Threat Report on FIMI is out and shows the scale of information warfare targetting the EU and its partners in 2025: - 540 incidents - 10,500 channels - 90 targeted countries - 35% of detected incidents linked to Russia and China. The EU is set to disrupt these activities with: - sanctions - law enforcement - digital regulation - resilience-building.

Cyber-attacks against EU member states and partners: @EUCouncil lists 2⃣ individuals & 3⃣ companies involved in malicious cyber activities. The EU will continue to cooperate with intl partners to promote an open, free, stable & secure cyberspace More 👇 link.europa.eu/C9v4cN

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Ukraine has come through its harshest wartime winter with its energy system bombarded by Russian strikes targeting civilian heat & power. At the same time, FIMI and disinformation campaigns falsely framed the blackouts as proof of Ukrainian weakness and fading European support.

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Many call disinformation the biggest threat to democracies, yet influence ops go beyond false claims. Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) means efforts to manipulate info, distort debate, influence elections, and erode trust in democratic institutions.

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How Russia lies about the war in the Middle East Short overview on last week's events and Russian influence operations. Kremlin messaging has wasted little time pivoting toward the Middle East and Iran. A key objective has been to link Ukraine to the conflict. Disinformation narratives included attempts to tie the 2014 Maidan protests to broader regional instability and claims that Ukraine could stage a ‘provocation’ to regain international attention. The conflict involving Iran creates a challenging situation for Russia. Moscow failed to present itself as a reliable ally, offering little visible support to a partner that supplied Shahed drone technology and ballistic missiles from the early stages of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Iran represents the third recent case in which the Kremlin did not meaningfully assist a key partner. Similar patterns appeared earlier with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. Kremlin-aligned outlets are engaged in complicated balancing act attempting to maintain relatively stable relations with the United States and at the same time criticising the U.S. and Israel for their attack on Iran, while promoting Russia and Vladimir Putin as potential negotiators and mediators between the warring parties. At the same time, much of their messaging has been directed at blaming Ukraine and portraying the United Kingdom and the European Union as drivers of escalation. In short: - FIMI outlets exploited the war in Iran to advance anti-Western and anti-Ukraine disinformation messages. - Narratives concentrated on energy crisis, using it as an opportunity to push for the removal of sanctions on Russian oil and gas. - A coordinated campaign across multiple platforms and languages aimed to strengthen the perception of Ukraine as a corrupt country unworthy of aid.

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A new Steam game, Ukrainian Warfare: Gostomel Heroes, lets players rewrite the 2022 battle for Kyiv while presenting events in a way that favors Kremlin narratives. It also highlights a growing trend of Russia using video games to spread propaganda to global gaming audiences.

"That outcome will not be achieved by abstract appeals to peace. It requires recognising imperial dynamics, dismantling myths of inevitability, confronting economic enablers of war, and accepting Europe’s own agency in history. In that sense, the war is not only about Ukraine. It is about whether Europe understands what it is – and what it stands against." Timothy Snyder: euvsdisinfo.eu/a-historians-b…

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In case you were wondering what the Kremlin has been up to in the disinformation space, here is a quick update: - Iranian strikes in the Middle East and nearby countries were described as “false flag” attacks, supposedly meant to justify triggering NATO’s Article 5. - Some commentators even called for Russia to “hit Europe like Iran hits US bases.” - The Kremlin has again claimed that EU sanctions hurt only the EU and have no effect on Russia. This message has become more common after the war involving Iran. - While Peskov says Russia is ready for negotiations, Russian media channels at the same time call for “decapitating strikes,” the destruction of all Ukrainian refineries, and even the end of Ukrainian statehood as a “guarantee of European security.” - Corruption narratives have increased again. For example, the war involving Iran was used to spread a false claim that an Iranian missile damaged the luxury estate of an aide to Ukrainian commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrskyi.

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In Russia, International Women’s Day means flowers and compliments. But also: – pressure against abortions – rewards for teen pregnancies – domestic violence partially decriminalised – feminism framed as extremism Yet pro-Kremlin media and influencers still call it a “women’s paradise.”

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