“Our supporters in Kherson and Odessa have been asking how they can help”.Īgain, the propagandists are conveniently avoiding the reasons for the water shortages which were caused by Russian bombardments of the water supply system. The bread is stale and tasteless, you would never eat that … “the people are beginning to grumble and raise their voices”, the residents of the neighboring oblasts stand ready to support the underground movement. Bread is distributed once in three days while canned meat - only once a week. Water supply is a thing of the past, and there are fewer and fewer drinking water distribution points remaining. The picture it painted was quite gloomy: “ Each day, each week and each month the city is sinking deeper into chaos and disarray. Following up on this subject, they published a fake interview with “an activist of Nikolayev underground movement” last week. Some weeks ago, Russian agents instigated street protests in Odessa allegedly caused by blackouts. The southern cities of Odessa and Mykolayiv were given a particular attention. Ukrainian experts have been talking about the risks of class struggle evolving into street riots or even a full-scale uprising”. So far it was only street cars and trolleybuses that were blocked in protest, but the people are already talking about the elite neighborhoods reserved for the officials, the members of parliament and the high-ranking military which are well-lit and heated. The playbook remains the same: drive a wedge between the people and the elites: “Urban residents who haven’t had power, heat and water for days, are starting to suspect that not everyone is having to go through the same hardships. In line with this narrative, Russian disinformation media have been claiming that social tensions are one the rise in Ukraine. Some of the disinformation media went one step further calling the consequences of Russia's terror attacks “ an energy crisis” pretending that the Ukrainian energy system had reached such awful state of decay all by itself. Unfortunately, this way of presenting news, which borders of schizophrenia, has long become the norm for the Russia of today. The manipulators did quote the actual statements and commentaries from Ukrainian officials while forgetting to mention what exactly had caused such calamity. “Ukrainian officials report damage to more than 50% of the country's critical infrastructure”, “Kyiv re-introduces the emergency power shutdown schedule” - such were the headlines that dominated the news feeds of leading Russian media. Last week, Russian media paid a keen attention to the state of Ukraine's energy infrastructure. Follow the trending topics of Russian disinformation on our interactive dashboard “Disinformation about the War in Ukraine” Here we go again: Russians predict “riots” in Ukraine over the “energy crisis” This monitoring report covers these and other topics of the disinformation spread by Russian state media and online parajournalists to manipulate public opinion. With no battlefield success to report, Russian propagandists have been gloating about the discomfort caused by the recent blackouts in Ukraine and once again attempting to sow the seeds of discord among the Ukrainian people. The new sanctions which target Russia’s energy sector are making Russian economy suffer.
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