UK revives Cold War-era unity to tackle ‘disinformation’ – Reuters
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Britain says number of ‘counterfeits’ from Moscow ‘doubled’ last week
The UK government has revealed that it is creating a unit to tackle disinformation from Moscow for the first time since the end of the Cold War.
The new Russian-Ukrainian Government Information Cell (GIC) will expose and combat ” false information, “ Foreign Secretary Liz Truss told the Mail on Sunday.
“At the end of the Cold War, we disbanded our intelligence unit, but the Russians didn’t disband theirs, so we had to deal with years and years of Russian disinformation. »
Home Secretary Priti Patel made a similar comment in a Telegraph op-ed, writing that the government has assembled experts to “Combating Russian cyber aggression directed at the UK. »
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Russia planning ‘biggest war since 1945’, says British PM
Truss said that London was already working to expose Moscow’s plans to take over Ukraine. He pointed to his own statement from last month, in which he said Moscow planned to install “a pro-Russian leader” in Kyiv. Truss’s office has released the name of a Ukrainian politician she says wants Russia to run a puppet government. She also released the names of four former Ukrainian officials who she says have close ties to Russian intelligence.
“We’ve seen a doubling in the amount of disinformation activity over the last week, so we know the Russians are preparing.” the Foreign Minister said, adding that there had been “40 pieces” fake news from Russia this month.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed alarmist rhetoric coming out of London and Washington this month as “war propaganda”
For months, NATO member states have accused Russia of gathering troops and military equipment in order to invade Ukraine. Moscow denies planning to attack its neighbor, insisting that the main troop movements in western Russia and Belarus were part of routine exercises.
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