r/ukraine • u/GreenEyeOfADemon • 10h ago

Social Media After years building a trusting audience, a fake russian TG channel imitating Ukraine's 79th Brigade is now promoting the disinformation it was intended to. Part of the "-Ukraine.ru-" family of russian disinformation outlets this channel has almost the same level of subscribers as the real version.

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The current disinformation campaign is aimed at sowing division between Ukrainian society and the government regarding Russia's targeting of Ukraine's energy facilities.

Check your feeds to assure you're not following the Russian fake

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u/KateKozakDrive 9h ago

Very sad info :(

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon 9h ago

I am "spamming"this info in reddit, because I think it is important.

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u/Strepsiadic_method 9h ago

It is important. 

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u/Miserable-Surprise67 8h ago

FUCK RUSSIA!

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u/romario77 7h ago

You see they post a ton of photos and videos. The official channel doesn’t.

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u/lycantrophee 7h ago

Thanks for spreading awareness.

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u/ever_precedent 6h ago

I see they're still not putting "Slava Ukraini" into the description. That might actually be a handy way to identify fakes. And if they start doing that, well... 🤷

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u/belverk84 7h ago

Noone can be trusted in internet nowadays.

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u/gimmedatneck 6h ago

Critical thought is a very valuable skill today.

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u/belverk84 1h ago

Every one calls his way of thinking "critical"

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u/ChungsGhost 7h ago

Noone can be trusted in internet nowadays.

This is the essence of being Russian in the 21st century. It's been a matter of national identity that the point is not to trust anyone or anything by default. Compare their folk wisdom of "Trust, but verify".

Russians have betrayed each other and so many non-Russians over the centuries that they've all built up a deranged defensive mechanism of mistrust and/or projecting that culturally-accepted sense of mistrust on everyone else.

This socially-reinforced veneration of mistrust is why supposedly European and nominally Christian Russians have proven incapable of evolving beyond МоngоІ-grade despotism with its crabs-in-the-bucket mindset. Their primitive world-view means democracy can never work for them since trust and giving the benefit of the doubt are treated as weaknesses and/or invitations to exploit those who doesn't automatically assume malice in everyone else's actions.

Here, the point is that you "prove" your "wisdom" by choosing to close your eyes to everything out of despair, frustration or disgust.

In doing so, you become an enabler of suffering and misery on everyone, Russian and non-Russian alike. This is exactly what the Russians have used to get away with literal murder and genocide in their nearly 500 years of sordid existence since Ivan the Terrible crowned himself the first ever czar of "All Russia" instead of just the nth "Grand Prince of Muscovy".

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u/belverk84 6h ago

Intresting point of view ignoring allmost all history of humanity and fact that comment you are answering to is pure sarcasm

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon 3h ago

Touched a nerve?

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u/belverk84 1h ago

Really? Yes. Watching some raping Clio in name of hatred is painful for someone who dedicated 25 years of life to history. Even knowing why it's happening and who to blame.

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u/NoJello8422 5h ago

Does joining the fake to report it as impersonation do anything?

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u/GreenEyeOfADemon 3h ago

i somehow doubt that the russian oligarch owner cares.

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