In the regions occupied by Russia, the Kremlin forces continue to exert psychological pressure on the locals, with the help of agitation information throws, incline to living conditions in fake republics. This was reported by the Operational Command "

“In the areas bordering with Transnistria, enemy forces are trying to commit provocations and practice information stuffing about probable aggressive actions by the Ukrainian defense forces,” the report says..

The Ukrainian military also adds that our units have not recorded non-standard situations that affect the state of border protection.. The total losses of the enemy per day amounted to 21 rashists and 7 pieces of equipment, in particular, "

Recall that psychological operations (they are most often resorted to by special services, and Russian ones are no exception) are a planned set of measures aimed at transmitting specially selected information to a specific audience in order to influence their mind, emotional state, etc.. The key goal is to create favorable conditions for further actions in the interests of the party disseminating this information..

Among other things, PSYOP may have the purpose of isolating. We are talking about artificially limiting the possibility of obtaining data on a particular event from different sources, depriving the ability to independently compare and contrast.

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Also, the purpose of hostile forces in their work with the population of the occupied territories may be to intimidate and discredit. The first is characterized by the creation of an information vacuum among the population, which contributes to the emergence in a person of a feeling of despondency, doubts about the attempts of the legitimate authorities and the population of the country to provide assistance to the occupied region.. Intimidation sows panic and exacerbates insecurity. Discredit is a direct undermining of trust in the target to limit its actions and influence in the region.

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One of the key methods by which the implementation of all the above points is possible is disinformation - the purposeful spread of lies in order to make erroneous decisions based on unreliable information by the object of influence (the population)..

We recently reported that in order to draw Pridnestrovie into the war, the occupiers prepared a newspaper with a fake appeal to Putin.