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Kremlin Orders Disinformation Push After Spring Offensive Stalls, Ukraine’s Intelligence Unveils
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Russia’s Presidential Administration has ordered intelligence agencies, the Foreign Ministry, and state media to launch a coordinated disinformation campaign against Ukraine, according to documents obtained by Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service.
Ukrainian intelligence disclosed the findings in a statement on its official website on May 20. It framed the directive as a demand by Russian leader Vladimir Putin, prompted by the failure of Russia's spring offensive and crucial economic problems.
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The service indicated that the operation is being coordinated by the Presidential Administration's Directorate for Strategic Partnership and Cooperation, headed by Vladimir Titov. The directorate has identified three priorities for the campaign:
discrediting mobilization in Ukraine and the military leadership responsible for replenishing the country's defense forces;
discrediting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, his team, and members of his family;
reviving media scrutiny surrounding the investigation into Andriyy Yermak and citing the Tucker Carlson interview with former presidential spokesperson Yuliia Mendel.
The agency described the first task as critical for Moscow, given the scale of Russian battlefield losses. It noted that the Kremlin considers the known corruption cases significant but believes it was pushed out of the European information space by international developments, including the situation around Iran.
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To generate public attention, the Russian “media plan” includes producing fabricated documents presented as materials from Ukrainian state bodies and creating symbolic props or staged visual materials for the campaign.
Separate documents indicate that more than 15 proxy outlets will be used to spread narratives within the Western information space, according to the agency.
Among those identified are L'Antidiplomatico, Magyar Nemzet, Prvni Zpravy, and CZ24.news. The list is incomplete and is expected to be finalized by the Russian Presidential Administration in the near future.
The intelligence service emphasized that the materials obtained show that Russia intends to expand the campaign, broaden destructive narratives, and scale its audience and geographic reach.
The disclosure builds on earlier warnings by the same agency about the pressure Russia's war effort is placing on its political and economic system.
On May 13, Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service assessed that a potential new wave of mobilization in Russia could trigger a large-scale economic crisis with long-term consequences.
Analysts cited by the agency pointed to an already-recessionary economy, mounting budget deficits, and the risk of a renewed outflow of skilled specialists.
Russian-linked influence operations targeting Western audiences have intensified in recent weeks. On the same day, it was reported about a Russian-linked network that circulated at least 20 fabricated video clips pushing narratives about a possible future war between Armenia and Russia.
The identical campaign reportedly involved fabricated covers attributed to French outlets such as Libération and Ouest-France, along with AI-generated clips featuring actors from the US television series The Office.
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