An article in the Ukrainian Pravda July 29 written by Andriy Shapovalov, acting director of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) in Kiev, takes aim at those he claims have been “broadcasting Russian rhetoric to foreign audiences.”
“Speakers sympathetic to the Putin regime,” he writes, “have been operating in the interests of the Kremlin, regularly bringing Russian propaganda narratives to European and American media during academic and public debates.”
He claims that the CCD has “discovered more than a hundred such scholars, military people, journalists, and politicians,” whom he roughly assorts into three groups:
First, those who openly support “the ideas of the Putin regime.” Second, those who “claim to sympathize with the people of Ukraine, but who justify Russia’s actions.” And third, those who push for negotiations and oppose the supply of weapons.
