"Daddy died from the mobilization," "Mother died saving her son from going to the war", "Mobilization, launched by Zelensky, has gone completely mad. We already live like we're in a detachment for the army,"... Such messages are spread on TikTok by a bot farm with almost 630 accounts. Its bots broadcast Russian narratives, incite Ukrainian citizens, and professionally discredit mobilization in Ukraine.Читати українською

On August 15, US President Donald Trump will meet with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Alaska has special historical significance for Russia, and Russians like to repeat that they will take it back. These days, ahead of the meeting, Russian propaganda is not promoting the theme of "Alaska is ours!" But we have collected some previous statements.Читати українськоюRecently, Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, noted that Alaska was "born as Russian America," where there are "Orthodox roots, forts, and fur trading." It is this state, he said, that makes the US an "Arctic country," hinting that Washington owes this to Russia, which sold the state in the past.

Soviet movies, along with a major part of Soviet literature and songs, attempted to describe an alternative utopian world that had little to do with the real Soviet life in the USSR, but which was implicitly presented as the "reality".In this imagined Soviet life, there was no poverty, no corruption among high officials, no police brutality against innocent, unarmed or unresisting people, and no police officer could knowingly collude with organized crime; while the existence of crime, corruption, and hooliganism was acknowledged, they were presented as marginal activities that could only exist at the lower levels of society. In this world, the criminals were always afraid of the police, but never vice versa.Читати українською

Today, Kyiv is under constant shelling, despite the "peace talks" and Trump's attempts to appease Putin. Based on information from open sources, Texty.org.ua decided to analyze the locations and times of strikes in Kyiv since the start of the war. Not all hits are reflected in our graph, only those that have been officially reported. Nevertheless, the data allows us to see certain patterns.Читати українською

A resident of Makariv district once told Texty.org.ua about the movement of an occupying column in northern Kyiv region: "The Russians drove straight out of the forest, which used to be entirely peatlands. However, during the Soviet era, melioration efforts created a road, and that's the route they took."Читати українською

The traditional Russian occupation strategy involves terrorizing civilians so that the majority no longer has the strength to endure and decides to stop resisting. In this case, military defeat is only a matter of time. That is why the Iranian drones Shaheds and missiles are flying towards peaceful cities to terrorize civilians, including children and older people. Texty.org.ua investigated, which cities in Ukraine are most affected by these attacks.Читати українською

The editorial office of Texty.org.ua became the target of a hate campaign by "Trukha" after publishing an investigation into how Ukrainian Telegram channels use air raid alerts to attract audiences and increase their popularity. After this publication, "Trukha" began spreading manipulative and defamatory posts about the activities of Texty.org.ua, calling on readers to personally harass individual members of the team and their loved ones.Читати українською

— How does Russian disinformation differ from Soviet disinformation?"They are basically the same," Todd Leventhal, a well-known American expert with many years of experience in countering Soviet and other disinformation and propaganda, answers this question for Texty.org.ua. "It's just an endless struggle for dominance against any conceivable enemies. Intelligence services try to harm those they perceive as their enemy in any way possible, to use any opportunity to weaken, disorient, mislead, and confuse them."Читати українською

In April 2025, Russian activist Yulia Latynina, who positions herself as an opposition politician but in fact systematically promotes Kremlin narratives, compared the murder of journalist Victoria Roshchyna in Russian captivity to the death of American pro-Russian blogger Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian detention center.Читати українською

Ukraine has found another Russians's weakness. On May 7, 1023 flights were delayed at Russian airports while on May 8, 1153 flights were delayed. On those days, footage from Russian airports was circulated around the world, where chaos and uncertainty reigned, with massive cancellations and delays.Читати українською