Vitaly Saenko17:43, 02/27/24

Two days ago Budanov also spoke about this.

Russian special services want, with the help of the expensive operation “Maidan-3”, to prepare the ground for the defeat of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in June of this year.

This is stated in a statement by the Intelligence Committee under the President of Ukraine, which was distributed on the Facebook social network by the Security Service of Ukraine.

In particular, two years after the start of a full-scale war of conquest, Ukraine faced an objective threat to the existence of the state, nation, and community of free and equal people.

Thus, the leadership of the aggressor country began to implement a plan of planned sabotage actions, information special operations and outright provocations in conditions of deliberately diverting world public attention from the long and bloody Russian-Ukrainian war.

“The main directions and goals of the enemy are to disrupt Ukrainian mobilization, spread disinformation about Ukraine’s inability to win, create and spread fake news about “tired of Ukraine” among our partners and allies in the world. The global international goal of the Russians is to reduce support for our country from the pro-Ukrainian coalition in the world,” the report says.

At the same time, the goal of the Russians inside Ukraine is to demoralize the Ukrainians, sow panic among the population, drive a wedge between military personnel and civilians, and antagonize everyone, including representatives of the country’s political leadership and civil society.

It is also said that Russian intelligence services spend no less on information attacks against Ukraine than on conventional war. Thus, in November last year, as part of the Maidan-3 special operation, Russia spent almost $250 million to spread anti-Ukrainian sentiments on the Telegram platform alone. But the total budget of the operation amounted to an astronomical $1.5 billion. “This is the most expensive “action” of the Russian special services in history,” the report says.

“The Maidan-3 special operation will reach its culmination in March-May 2024; over the coming weeks, the enemy will make every effort to spread narratives destructive to global security and attempts to incite conflicts – both within Ukraine and in other parts of the world, where there is effective support for Ukraine,” the message says.

In particular, the campaign methodology is traditional for Russian special services: to question the legitimacy of government decisions taken in Ukraine after May 20, to spread panic and despondency, to artificially contrast civilians and military personnel, to quarrel between Ukraine and its allies, to spread all kinds of “conspiracy theories” in society.

“This is happening against the backdrop of public statements by the Russian Federation about the creation of new types of superweapons, which, according to the Russians, should ensure the technical superiority of the Russian Federation over the West for the next decade. It follows that resistance to the goals of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is dangerous for the world, and therefore the Russian Federation will push others countries to direct dialogue on Ukraine without our participation,” the message said.

Also, the Russians, through their own agents of influence in Ukraine and around the world, will rely on organizing various protest actions and deliberately discredit the process of exchanging prisoners of war.

“According to the enemy’s plan, in the first half of June the situation in our state will be undermined and then, taking advantage of this, Ukraine will be inflicted a military defeat in the east, this is the key idea of ​​their operation,” the message says.

In this regard, a call is made to Ukrainian society and international partners and allies of Ukraine to strengthen joint resistance and comprehensive security measures, especially in the information space, to effectively counter global threats and challenges of the new world hybrid war. “The war that the Russian Federation and its criminal allies are waging against the entire civilized world today. Our society needs unity,” says the SBU.

(C)UNIAN 2024