During this reporting period, the Russian disinformation machine increased its manipulation volumes by 19%, maintaining its strategic focus on undermining Ukraine's internal resilience. The Kremlin continues to incite civil confrontation by combining systematic attacks on mobilization with new attempts to discredit Kyiv internationally.
The primary tool of influence remains the appeal to fear and prejudice. Moscow seeks to shift responsibility for war crimes onto the victim of aggression while simultaneously promoting the idea of an "inevitable collapse" of state institutions and the social sphere.