From NATO to Zelensky, the top Russian-Serbian disinformation during the past week

NATO, Finland, Sweden and the situation in Ukraine were at the center of Serbian-Russian disinformation last week. It was the Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, who perpetrated the next slander of Moscow against NATO allies and their exercises by misinforming that “Steadfast Defender 2024” is being conducted to prepare for a war with Russia.

But Patrushev’s statements are clearly Russian propaganda, because in reality the opposite is true, as the exercise “Steadfast Defender 24” is based on NATO’s new defense plans and demonstrates NATO’s ability to quickly deploy troops from North America and other parts of the alliance to strengthen Europe’s defense.

The Russian propaganda media “Russia Today Balkan” (RT Balkan), which operates unhindered in Serbia, spread a series of false information about Finland’s membership of NATO and even linked it to the Recak massacre.

In an article published on March 11, RT Balkan falsely wrote that Finland benefited from NATO membership “by covering up the Recak massacre in Kosovo”, although it is known that Finland’s membership in NATO was a consequence of Putin’s war in Ukraine, which endangered even Finland itself, which is located on the border with Russia.

Last week there was misinformation about the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. It was the medium “Sputnik Srbija” that falsely informed that allegedly Ukrainian soldiers wanted to overthrow President Zelensky.

However, this was only the aim of this propaganda medium to stir up division among the Ukrainian people, as it is known that Zelensky enjoyed 90 percent support from his people for two consecutive years during the Russian occupation.

While the Serbian newspaper “Informer” spread misinformation in an article published on March 12 to Sweden after its accession to NATO with the false claim that “it is preparing an attack”.

“Turmoil in Sweden, they have just joined NATO and are already preparing for a Russian attack,” wrote the Informer when it became known that Sweden had decided to join NATO after Russia’s attack on Ukraine, causing uncertainty among the Swedes and not the fact that it was planning a Russian attack, according to the Serbian propaganda newspaper.

Sweden joined NATO on March 7, two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced the country to rethink its national security policy and conclude that supporting the alliance was the Scandinavian country’s best guarantee of security.

/The Geopost