Russia seeks to use Polish border incident to erode support for Ukraine

Russian information operations seek to leverage the incident at the Polish border to erode support for Ukraine. Groups have provided prescribed memes. One provided a gallery of memes with the text:

Portion of memes on the topic of the day Spread, brothers!

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Earlier in the war, Russia tried to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine using a conspiracy theory that Poland would take Ukrainian land. Related content:

Poland in the eyes of Russian propaganda - from the "hyena of Europe" to the "Nazi hegemon of Central and Eastern Europe"

by Artur Żak, translated using Yandex For many decades Poland has been presented in Russian propaganda as a country that is not a fully fulfilled country. A country that always acts by someone's side and carries out foreign orders, often unfavorable to the Polish raison d'état.

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Russia continues trying to provoke a fight between Ukraine and Poland, conspiracy theories included

Russia continues to sow discord between Ukraine and Poland, using quotes out of context to lend credence to a Russian-made conspiracy theory that Poland wants to absorb part of Ukraine. This is false.

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Russian diplomats focused on gas, a conspiracy theory about Poland, and Transnistria

Russian diplomats and state media highlighted the following narratives last week:

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