#Russia troll coordination portals post jobs to spam #Ukraine and #Poland Telegram channels with incendiary and divisive news like “Polish protesters do X to Ukrainian passenger buses”
First such stories, including Ukrainian-language memes conveniently provided by the above, start popping up on Ukrainian channels
Ukrainian minister Oleksandr Kubrakov posts one such story on his Twitter providing, gaining hundreds of likes, shares, Ukrainian media pick up the story etc.^1
Polish police was shortly asked about it and sounded rather surprised, saying “no such things are happening on the border now”.^2
Two years into the war, in spite of numerous prior warnings that Russians are unrolling an active campaign of fakes targeted at sowing divisions between Poland and Ukraine, a minister of one of these countries shares the fake.
Meanwhile, some Ukrainian company posted a huge “Poland first to help” next to the main road from the border to Lviv.
