The Russian occupiers began to promote a narrative about the need to "liberate" eight Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv, Odesa, and Lutsk. This is explained by the enemy's goal to influence its own audience and accelerate mobilization.
This is reported by the Center for Countering Disinformation under the National Security and Defense Council.
The so-called "senator" from the temporarily occupied Crimea in the Russian State Duma Olga Kovitidi recently stated that "the expansion of the geography of the special military operation to protect Donbass, which is carried out by Russia, due to the need to solve the full range of tasks associated with the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine."
At the same time, the leader of the militants of the so-called "DNR," Denis Pushilin, while in Belarus, stated that allegedly "the time has come again to liberate Russian cities founded by Russian people: Kyiv, Chernihiv, Poltava, Odesa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia, and Lutsk.
According to analysts of the CPD, the main purpose of this manipulation is to explain to the Russian audience the need to increase the rate of mobilization and to form the opinion of the local population that the RF "achieves its objectives in accordance with the "plan.
In addition, also with such statements the propagandists "hide" the losses, which have already reached more than 40 thousand killed in Ukraine.
It is worth noting that the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov also spoke about "expanding the geography of the war.
