Most Russian contract soldiers try not to get to frontline - Intelligence
The majority of contract soldiers in the Russian Federation are trying to avoid going to the front line in Ukraine.
Representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andriy Yusov informed this on the air of Channel 24, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
"(In the Russian Federation - ed.) even contract soldiers are trying in every way to avoid moving to the front line and directly participating in assault operations. Another thing is that they are not asked about it," Yusov said.
According to him, the whining of these people that everything is bad, that the commanders are inept, that Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading everyone in the wrong direction, of course, has little effect on the overall decisions and plans of the leadership.
"And the task today is to convey this real picture of horror, hopelessness, and despair that Russians see in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories when they come under the actions of the Ukrainian Security and Defense Forces to the residents of the so-called Russian Federation. Because at the moment, of course, Russian propaganda is hiding this reality from them, not showing them," the DIU representative said.
He noted that unlike the PSYOP against Ukraine, where Russians can sometimes give 10 percent of the truth and cover everything else with lies, Russian propaganda inside the Russian Federation itself works on the principle of total lies.
"That is, they have a completely upside-down reality there, and you have to break through it. And this critical mass (of people - ed.) will definitely be shifted and will influence the general mood within the Russian Federation itself. In the end, this is one of the arguments that restrains the Putin regime from further public partial (or actually full) mobilization and forces it to resort to hybrid mobilization measures," Yusov said.
He recommended that Ukrainians always (when creating or distributing messages - ed.) answer the question: what does this message generally work for, does it help the Ukrainian Security and Defense Forces, the Ukrainian military on the front line, the Ukrainian command and military-political leadership to liberate Ukrainian lands, restore sovereignty and destroy the occupiers, or not.
As reported, the DIU said that Russian political technologists have prepared another round of disinformation campaign against Ukraine.
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