Moscou pousserait-elle au silence les femmes de soldats russes violents ?
Des utilisateurs de réseaux sociaux ont partagé des photos d'une brochure censée conseiller aux femmes de soldats russes de ne pas parler des violences domestiques qu'elles subissent. Euroverify en retrace les origines.
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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