📌A new series of statements by Kremlin propagandists on Russian national television. We will talk about this and more in the latest episode of the Russian Hate Speech project.

▪️ Security guarantees from the United States must take the form of a legally binding document supported by the U.S. Congress. ▪️ Ukraine has the full right to use russian assets. From both a values-based and legal perspective, this is the correct course of action.

▪️ Europe must not be excluded from Ukraine’s security guarantees —this is precisely what russia is seeking. Europe’s involvement reduces the likelihood of future russian aggression.

▪️ Ukraine’s accession to the EU can be accelerated if the steps toward European integration are not politically blocked. For Ukraine, EU membership is part of its security guarantees. ▪️ russia is allocating record-breaking budgets not for peace, but for war.

▪️ If Ukraine is not supported today, there is a high risk that it may not withstand the pressure, and Europe would then have to pay in blood. Signals coming from moscow are clearly not about peace with Europe.

▪️ putin does not want to stop this war, but he could be forced to do so under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump.

▪️ Ukraine is doing everything possible to end the war as soon as possible through diplomatic means, but the Russian side speaks more about war than about peace.

Key takeaways from President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s engagement with the media during his visit to Brussels:

At the same time, kremlin propaganda continues to assure citizens of russia’s “full control” over Kupiansk — even after a visit to the city by the President of Ukraine.

The goal of this disinformation campaign is to smear the Ukrainian army, undermine trust in the AFU among Ukrainian society and the international community, and shift responsibility for russia’s own war crimes onto Ukraine.

✅ Such materials are built on manipulation: staged videos, footage taken out of context, and so-called “testimonies” from people living in temporarily occupied territories are used.

❗️ru-propagandists continue a disinformation campaign about alleged “AFU atrocities” in Kupiansk In publications and videos spread by the enemy, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are accused of shelling civilians and persecuting the local population.

❗️ Even amid a budget deficit and shrinking oil and gas revenues, the kremlin continues to increase military spending. This policy shows that for putin, war and imperial ambitions matter more than the country’s economic stability.

▫️ These figures cover only ministry of defense spending. Additional costs borne by regional governments include payments to contract soldiers, compensation to families of the fallen, treatment of the wounded, prosthetics, and burials.

On average, the state spends 213 billion rubles per week ($2.7 billion) on the war—an amount comparable to the annual budget of a large russian region.

▫️ According to russia’s ministry of defense, total military expenditures will reach 15.9 trillion rubles ($198.8 billion), or 7.3% of GDP. This is 2.4 trillion rubles ($30 billion) more than budgeted.

⚡️ russian authorities continue to ramp up funding for the war against Ukraine, significantly exceeding the planned budget. ▫️ By the end of 2025, russia’s military spending is nearly 20% higher than initially planned.

Odesa region. Ukrainian energy workers are doing everything possible to restore electricity to our people’s homes as quickly as possible.

‼️ The key objective of this campaign is psychological pressure on service members, erosion of trust within units. It is intended to influence civilians by sowing doubts about the effectiveness of Ukraine’s defenses and the purpose of military service.

▫️ These videos are presented as “personal confessions from the front,” but in reality they are products of generative AI. This allows the enemy to rapidly produce a mass stream of fake testimonies, creating the illusion of a systemic catastrophe on the battlefield.

▫️ Propagandists are spreading videos featuring AI-generated “soldiers” allegedly stationed at various sections of the front line. In these clips, the characters claim there is a “collapse of defenses,” “russian troops breaking through the flanks,” “chaos within units”.