As a result of operational and investigative activities in Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Mykolaiv and Cherkasy regions, the SSU dismantled a cross-region network of pro-kremlin Internet agitators.

The propagandists publicly justified russia’s armed aggression and called for seizure of state power in Ukraine.

For information sabotage, they created dozens of specialized Telegram channels and social media profiles.

The destructive content was ‘picked up’ from russian propaganda Internet resources.

During the searches of the suspects’ homes, the SSU found computer equipment and mobile phones with evidence of subversive activities.

Based on the collected evidence, SSU investigators notified 9 members of the agitators’ network of suspicion of committing crimes against Ukraine’s state security.

In Dnipropetrovsk region:

The SSU blocked the activities of four enemy agitators who discredited Ukrainian Defence Forces on the Internet.

In the comments under their own ‘publications’, they supported russia’s actions and justified their war crimes, including missile attacks on Ukrainian cities.

In Mykolaiv region:

A head of a local NGO was detained for publicly calling for a forceful seizure of power in the region.

The investigation established that the offender was a supporter of the pro-kremlin movement ‘Narodovlastiye’ [people’s power] and had tried to undermine the internal political situation in the south of Ukraine.

In Zaporizhzhia region:

The SSU exposed another two enemy accomplices. The first one urged his friends who moved to Lviv not to trust the Ukrainian authorities and return to Zaporizhzhia to support russian occupiers.

The other aggressor’s accomplice is a resident of Zaporizhzhia. In communication with her friends, the woman justified russia’s full-scale invasion and supported the region’s ‘accession’ to russia.

In Cherkasy region:

Another enemy propagandist, who repeatedly posted publications in support of ruscists, was identified.

The woman published her own posts, photos with enemy symbols and reposts from pro-kremlin online communities on the Odnoklassniki social network.

In Lviv:

The SSU exposed a local resident who popularized the ideas of the ‘russian world’ and the occupation regime in the temporarily occupied areas of eastern and southern Ukraine on the Internet.

Investigations are ongoing within the criminal proceedings opened under 4 Articles of the CCU:

• 109 (actions aimed at forceful change or overthrow of constitutional order or seizure of state power);
• 111-1 (collaboration);
• 436 (propaganda of war);
• 436-2 (justification, recognition as lawful, denial of russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine, glorification of its participants).

The SSU Offices in Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Lviv, Mykolaiv and Cherkasy regions exposed the agitators under the procedural supervision of the Prosecutor’s Office.