Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, the Security Service of Ukraine has exposed 13 foreign journalists working on behalf of the aggressor country.
These representatives of the foreign media prepared materials for the Kremlin propagandists, as well as published disinformation from the fronts. They are banned from entering Ukraine for a period of three years.
This was reported to the Security Service.
In addition, the secret service:
- neutralized more than a dozen bot farms with a capacity of more than 100 thousand fake accounts;
- exposed hundreds of Internet agents acting in favor of infidels;
- blocked more than 5.5 thousand accounts and accounts.
Employees of the SBU also exposed an extensive intelligence network of the Russian special services, which was led from the annexed Crimea. It included pseudo-journalists, as well as “experts” who received money from Russian curators for their work. Currently, the editor-in-chief, who coordinated the activities of the group, is hiding in the temporarily occupied territory. SBU investigators informed him of the suspicion in absentia.
As reported, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine expelled from its ranks journalists from the temporarily occupied territories of the Zaporozhye region for collaborationism . Three journalists from Melitopol were expelled for treason: Olesya Grusneva, Denis Dorofeev and Dmitry Pereverzev. They began to cooperate with the Russian occupiers.
