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The Insider: Leaked documents expose Kremlin's disinformation campaigns in West


The Russia's foreign intelligence agency Project Kylo aims to exploit fear and uncertainty to sway Western audiences against their governments and support for Ukraine, according to leaked documents.

The leaked documents, intended for various Russian government agencies, outline a Project Kylo strategy that aims to spread disinformation on sensitive Western topics and stoke anti-government sentiments. “Waging network wars in EU cyberspace based on the increasing demands of Ukrainian migrants and the new waves of irritation of the local population provoked by this, according to preliminary estimates, will have a very high efficiency both now and in the foreseeable future,” the documents state. According to The Insider, the SVR officers involved in the project agree that “morality and ethics should play no part in this covert form of psychological warfare, owing to the fact that Russia’s enemies evidently brook no such considerations in their own methods.”

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