The Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said that Russian special services are trying to create a new political project in Ukraine, focusing on "the remains of the pro-Russian population." The signs of this, according to Danilov, are the activation of "experts" and "intelligence actors," presumably alluding to former freelance advisor to the Presidential Office Oleksiy Arestovych.
Danilov said that the only chance for Russia to defeat Ukraine is to split the country and plunge Ukrainians into internal confrontation, which the Kremlin has been "successfully doing for the last decades - dividing Ukraine into sorts, creating Russian proxy parties, corrupting politicians, falsifying history."
"Signs of such activities are the sharp intensification of various "experts", "intelligence actors" and other kinds of scammers in promoting the Russian agenda in Russian. They are the ones at this moment crying about the "failure" of the counteroffensive, hinting at the need to revise the goals of the war (and this is no longer an advance to the 1991 borders), giving advice on how to fight the Armed Forces, issuing false insights about "conflicts" among the military and political leadership, calling for the acceptance of "good Russians" and ultimately hinting that it is necessary to negotiate with Russia," the NSDC Secretary noted.
He added that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies are monitoring the situation and called on Ukrainians "to show a high degree of information accuracy in order not to get contaminated with the products of Russian information activity."
