We analyse pro-Russian outlets aimed at Western audiences, which anti-Ukraine narratives they push, how they work, and how to counter them.
Propaganda outlets are inflating diplomatic tensions between Kyiv and Warsaw by focusing on historical memory issues. They frame any commemoration of Ukrainian historical figures as an act of "glorifying Nazism," attempting to provoke a rupture in military and political support from Poland.
Routine policy debates in the EU and US regarding budgets, migration, or historical memory are cast as the inevitable collapse of Western support and a final rupture in relations. Isolated statements from opposition figures or complex stages of EU accession talks are inflated into a narrative of Ukraine's total global isolation.
Ukraine's European integration process is portrayed as a doomed initiative facing insurmountable resistance from neighboring states and European societies. By leveraging isolated political statements and sociological polls, manipulators create an illusion of Kyiv's total isolation on the path to membership.
Selective use of data regarding the difficulty of intercepting ballistic targets is passed off as evidence of the general failure of Ukrainian air defenses. Russian outlets focus on infrastructure vulnerability to Western systems to sow distrust in military aid and cultivate a myth of «invincible» Russian weaponry.
Propaganda outlets promote the thesis that Russia is forced to continue hostilities only because of "Western plans" to expand the conflict. Moscow's aggression is framed as a forced reaction to the strategy of the US and its allies, who allegedly seek a "war of attrition" and block peace initiatives.
The Ukrainian leadership is portrayed as the initiator of provocations aimed at expanding the geography of hostilities into Belarusian territory. Meanwhile, Minsk is cast as an exceptionally restrained party that ignores Kyiv's hostile actions to maintain regional stability.
Western leaders and diplomats are portrayed as ideologically blinded fanatics whose statements about Ukraine's successes supposedly defy reality. This tactic aims to discredit official EU and US policy by labeling it as «illogical» and «detached from the people».