The Russian Federation will seek to lower Pres. Volodymyr Zelensky’s international support through a series of well-planned provocations, according to the Ukrainian defense ministry’s main intelligence agency.
In social media on Thursday, the agency wrote that the Russian presidential administration has approved a plan to create an additional structure in Russia, that will be aimed, specifically, at discrediting the Ukrainian president via diverse disinformation campaigns. The disinformation campaign would be targeted to people who live in western Europe, with the hopes of dissuading them from supporting Ukraine by changing the public perception of the president.
The Russian plan, according to the agency, would involve the launching of a website posting content produced by Moscow called the “Zelensky Fund.” The website itself has already been registered, said the bulletin.
The Russians’ next step would be to seek the registration of the “Zelensky Fund” across Europe and would attract public attention via a large-scale, pan-European advertising campaign.
The fund’s principal activity would apparently be analogous to that of a pyramid scheme, or multi-level-marketing, where people gain rewards for bringing more people into the scheme.
“This is nothing new. Russia has been seeking to discredit Zelensky for a very long time. The Kremlin understands that the best way to appeal to the Western audience is through their value-based system. Thus, Moscow has been…
