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June 2023

Russian War Report: Satellite imagery analysis captures flood threat after dam’s destruction

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Satellite imagery of the Nova Kakhovka dam’s collapse reveals the extent of the damage caused by extreme flooding in Kherson Oblast.
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BANNER: A presidential runoff ballot at a polling station in Istanbul featuring incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, May 28, 2023. (Source: Reuters Connect/Diego Cupolo/NurPhoto)
June 2023

A snapshot of Turkey’s information environment prior to the presidential election

by Sayyara Mammadova

Rumors, misinformation, and unsupported allegations swirled ahead of the first round of voting
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Caption: Men are seen on the roof of a damaged apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, May 30, 2023. (Source: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
June 2023

Russian War Report: Moscow is on edge after the latest drone attack

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Drone strikes in Moscow have the Kremlin on high alert. In Georgia, the pro-Russia Prime Minister blamed NATO for Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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BANNER: Highlights from a bubble chart showing the volume of each channel’s posts forwarded by other channels in the network. The bigger a bubble is, the more messages were forwarded from the given channel by the other eighteen channels.
June 2023

Coordinated Telegram channels aggregate anti-Ukrainian news from around the globe

by Givi Gigitashvili, Esteban Ponce de León

Network promotes anti-Ukrainian news from multiple countries while heavily amplifying content from a Telegram channel allegedly affiliated with Yevgeny Prigozhin’s RIA FAN news agency
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BANNER: A presidential runoff ballot at a polling station in Istanbul featuring incumbent president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, May 28, 2023. (Source: Reuters Connect/Diego Cupolo/NurPhoto)
May 2023

Pro-government Twitter accounts push hashtag promoting Egypt’s support for human rights

by Dina Sadek

Twitter accounts identified as part of a network promoting pro-government content initiated a hashtag in support of government actions
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May 2023

Russian War Report: Belgorod incursion brings deluge of online mockery of Russia’s defenses

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

After an anti-Putin Russian volunteer military unit attacked Belgorod, trolls and bloggers online viciously ridiculed Russian defenses.
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June 2023

Russian War Report: Satellite imagery analysis captures flood threat after dam’s destruction

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Satellite imagery of the Nova Kakhovka dam’s collapse reveals the extent of the damage caused by extreme flooding in Kherson Oblast.
Read More
Caption: Men are seen on the roof of a damaged apartment block following a reported drone attack in Moscow, May 30, 2023. (Source: Reuters/Maxim Shemetov)
June 2023

Russian War Report: Moscow is on edge after the latest drone attack

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Drone strikes in Moscow have the Kremlin on high alert. In Georgia, the pro-Russia Prime Minister blamed NATO for Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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May 2023

Russian War Report: Belgorod incursion brings deluge of online mockery of Russia’s defenses

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

After an anti-Putin Russian volunteer military unit attacked Belgorod, trolls and bloggers online viciously ridiculed Russian defenses.
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Explosion of a missile is seen in the sky over the city during a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine May 16, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
May 2023

Russian War Report: Russia fires barrage at Kyiv while UK promises ‘kamikaze’ drones

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

A series of Russian missile strikes directed at Kyiv were largely intercepted while the UK promises hundreds of drones. In Poland, a missile “cover up” controversy.
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A banner reading “Putin War Criminal” hangs from the wall of Estonia’s Narva Fortress in the direction of Russia, as the neighboring Russian city of Ivangorod hosts a Victory Day concert in the direction of Narva, May 9, 2023. (Source: Reuters/Janis Laizans)
May 2023

Russian War Report: Russia wages an invisible war with radar waves and Russian music across borders

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Russian surveillance has increased on Ukraine’s border. Meanwhile a museum in Estonia hung a large poster depicting Putin as a war criminal.
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creenshot of May 4 Telegram video showing Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin standing in front of dozens of dead soldiers {blurred] and excoriating Kremlin military leadership for not providing Wagner with adequate ammunition supplies. Warning: original source video contains graphic footage. (Source: Kyepka Prigozhina/archive)
May 2023

Russian War Report: Prigozhin threatens Wagner withdrawal from Bakhmut

by Digital Forensic Research Lab

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to withdraw forces from Bakhmut following conflict with Russian military leadership over resources.
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