The Zelenskyy regime’s Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) announced on April 30 in a Telegram post that “the CCD of the NSDC, together with the Ministry of Defense’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (https://t.me/DIUkraine), continues to identify russian [sic] propagandists.” The NSDC is Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s National Security and Defense Council.
The CCD is infamous for drawing up lists of foreign persons and institutions opposing the Kiev regime and its war plans. It hands those lists over to Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), NATO intelligence, Joe Biden’s State Department (under Tony Blinken), and Brussels bureaucrats, for those named to be silenced, one way or the other. Before the November 2024 U.S. elections, Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, among others, were targets of the interwoven Ukrainian “countering disinformation” nexus. At the time, this led to calls for an investigation of State Department funding of this hit-apparatus by a group of congressmen, in which then-Senator Vance played a leading role.
After the election, the CCD temporarily pulled in its horns, and posted very few public items fingering Western opposition propagandists, publicly focusing attention more on countering news reflecting the growing credibility problems faced internally by the Kyiv regime and in the Global South.
