“According to investigators, PR created more than 200 sites that actually duplicated the Kremlin’s official mouthpieces and were registered with fake accounts”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the press service of the department, two professional PRs were detained, who committed informations against Ukraine at the request of the Russian special services.
The SBU documented that the persons involved worked mostly in the EU “media market” – they prepared and distributed materials that discredit Ukraine and justify Russian aggression.
According to the investigation, the PR created more than 200 sites that actually duplicate the Kremlin’s official mouthpieces and were registered with fake accounts to avoid blocking.
The SBU claims that also on the request of the Russian Federation, detained campaigns in the EU countries and justified the sub-deposits of the aggressor country, among other things, were engaged in the reutation of the media image of two “wallets” of the Kremlin:
▪ Igor Shvalov – head of the Russian State Corporation “Bank of Development and Foreign Economic Activity”;
▪ Andriy Kostin – Chairman of the Board of the Moscow Bank “VTB”.
According to the investigation, by 2022 these PRs fulfilled commercial orders from the Russian Federation, and after the start of a full -scale war, men remotely came out their former employer from Russia and offered cooperation.
Investigators of the SBU reported the detainees of suspicion under Part 2 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (State betrayal committed in the conditions of martial law). They are in custody without the right to make bail.
The Security Service of Ukraine regularly reports the detention of Russian agents, exposing and preventing terrorist acts prepared by the agents of special services of the Russian Federation, in particular at military and civilian facilities. The SBU records the attempts to use recruited Ukrainians for terrorist attacks and calls for citizens to report suspicious proposals.