The GUR said: ‘The special services of the aggressor state of Russia have been instructed by the Kremlin leaders to make the most of the intensification of diplomatic efforts by the new US administration to end the Russian-Ukrainian war and the bilateral meeting of the US and Russian delegations in Saudi Arabia on February 18, 2025, in subversive information and psychological campaigns.’.
(Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) (Photo by ROMAN PILIPEY/AFP via Getty Images)] ‘Moreover, these plans may also include a “Russian victory over NATO”, as Muscovite propaganda has long described the war against Ukraine as a war with the Alliance.’.
In a statement, they said: ‘Russia is preparing to declare an alleged “victory” in the war against Ukraine by the “round date” – February 24, 2025, the third anniversary of the beginning of the full-scale war.
Putin’s propaganda machine and intelligence services are ‘on instructions from the Kremlin, are stepping up efforts to incite disbelief among Ukrainian society, destabilise the situation inside our country and discredit Ukraine among partner states that provide critical military assistance to our Security and Defence Forces in the fight against the occupiers’, the GUR said.
A Russian missile attack on February 4, 2025 on the Ukrainian city of Izyum, briefly occupied by Russia in 2022, killed five people and wounded three dozen more, officials said.
