London: According to a UK study, Russian ‘cyber soldiers’ have launched a new campaign against leaders of other countries and they are using large-scale propaganda to justify their attack on Ukraine. Using social media platforms. Britain’s Foreign Office said on Sunday that workers at a St Petersburg factory use the Telegram messaging app to recruit and align their supporters and then use the social media accounts of critics of Russia’s president. Posts in support of Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. These people are paid for it.
According to the Foreign Office, the so-called ‘troll factory’ has developed new techniques to avoid being identified on social media platforms. Such activities are being done on eight social media platforms including Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, and Tiktok. It said that in this campaign leaders of many countries including Britain, South Africa, and India and a large number of people have been targeted.
Meanwhile, satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press have shown damage to oil depots across the Ukrainian border in Russia following suspected Ukrainian attacks. Saturday’s photos illustrate the damage at two sites in Bryansk. Monday’s blast damaged several tanks, burning the surrounding ground.
The explosion burned down an oil depot owned by Transneft-Druzhba, a subsidiary of Transneft, a Russian state-controlled company that operates the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline carrying crude to Europe. Bryansk is located about 100 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine.
