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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed another special information operation of Russian special services aimed at discrediting Ukrainian journalism and law enforcement agencies, as well as state policy in the issue of ensuring freedom of speech, the press service of the SBU has reported.

“Some journalist, Yuriy Abramovych, who is constantly published on the pro-Russian information website ‘Antifascist’ and his last “masterpiece” titled “German TV: the Ukrainian media belonging to the oligarchs brainwash people with patriotic propaganda” came in sight of detectives of the special services. The article says of allegedly existing reportage (in fact, absent) of the German public broadcaster ARD about the methods of work of Ukrainian journalists,” it said.

According to the SBU, this “author” calls himself a German journalist. Most of the materials are devoted to the so-called “German vision” of the situation as a whole in the world, and in Ukraine in particular.

But not a single article was found in the German-language editions under the authorship of Abramovych. However, 652 anti-Ukrainian publications on the Antifascist website are published under his authorship.

“There is no information about the personality of Yuriy Abramovych in open sources. It is likely that he belongs to the category of ‘fake foreign correspondents’ used by pro-Kremlin publications to cover the international assessment of events in Ukraine and abroad,” the SBU said.

Thus, Russian special services make use of ignorance of Russian-speaking internet users concerning publications of foreign media. Therefore, they purposefully publish articles of manufactured authors with deliberately “fake” information, from an allegedly foreign source. Then these publications are distributed on similar pro-Russian information websites.