What we know about pamphlets offering support to violent Russian soldiers' wives
Social media users have been sharing photos of a pamphlet purportedly advising Russian soldiers' wives to refrain from speaking out about domestic abuse. Euroverify traces its origins.
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00:00Did Russia produce a leaflet to silence violent soldiers' wives?
00:07This photo, which is circulating virally online, claims to show a leaflet providing practical advice to Russian military wives beaten by their husbands.
00:18It tells women to refrain from speaking out, to mask bruises with makeup and to consider how they provoked their husbands.
00:25It has prompted debate online about whether this is real or part of a propaganda campaign targeting Moscow.
00:32We investigated using reverse image searches and found that in early August, an almost identical leaflet was circulating purporting to come from the Ukrainian government.
00:41The texts on both leaflets are the same.
00:44Ukraine's Center for Countering Disinformation, which is a government agency, attributed the leaflet to Russian propagandists working to discredit the Ukrainian armed forces.
00:54It means that the exact same narrative was used initially to target Kiev and then Moscow.
00:59It's plausible, therefore, that this most recent leaflet is the work of pro-Ukraine actors.
01:04It's been widely shared by pro-Ukraine bloggers.
01:07It carries the logo of the Moscow-based Academy of Communication and the QR code links to this webpage of its Psychological Help Center.
01:15The page is no longer available, but archives show that on September 2nd, it displayed the same advice as seen on the pamphlet.
01:22The Center's director, Alena Cechulina, has since published this video on Telegram, claiming that the Academy's website was hacked and that false information was then published.
01:32In a statement, the Academy claims the false pamphlets were distributed to bloggers, and it requests that those responsible for the disinformation be brought to justice.
01:41We were unable to independently verify these claims, but the fact that an identical leaflet was first used to attack Ukraine suggests this could be a counter-campaign conducted by pro-Ukraine actors.
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