Disinformation Roulette: The Kremlin's Year of Lies to Justify an Unjustifiable War - United States Department of State

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Ukraine is an independent state and member of the United Nations.
53% : Russian government-backed influence actors have leveraged a network of websites and blogs targeting Ukraine, NATO, the European Union, and the United States to amplify disinformation including efforts to spread this narrative .
42% : In July 2022, as the Russian government proposed expanding prohibitions on "propaganda" about "nontraditional sexual relations " -- a proposal Putin signed into law in December 2022 -- prominent Kremlin figures portrayed Russia's March 2022 exclusion from the Council of Europe as the failure of "efforts to impose foreign values and same-sex marriage" on Russia, even though the Council of Europe's decision was based on Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

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