{"id":8594,"date":"2026-07-23T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/8594\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:55:09","slug":"russia-plans-false-flag-drone-attacks-on-nato-allies-ukrainian-disinformation-chief-warns-ukraine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/8594\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans false flag drone attacks on NATO allies, Ukrainian disinformation chief warns | Ukraine news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style:italic;font-weight:500;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5\">A Ukrainian disinformation official warns Moscow may use captured or disguised drones to stage provocations against NATO countries. Allied intelligence and information security cooperation will be crucial to detect and counter such operations before they damage trust in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the NSDC, Andriy Kovalenko, warned on Telegram that Russia is planning provocations under a foreign flag against NATO countries with the aim of undermining trust in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is preparing provocations under a foreign flag against NATO countries; in particular, it could use drones disguised as Ukrainian ones to carry out attacks in the Baltic states as well as provocations against Poland, in order to undermine trust in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Andriy Kovalenko<\/p>\n<p>Context and Consequences<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Center for Countering Disinformation added that the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian Federation bears responsibility for these operations, and the Foreign Intelligence Service could also be involved in carrying them out.<\/p>\n<p>According to W\u0142adys\u0142aw Kosiniak-Kamysz, Poland\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister for National Defense, Russia may be preparing provocations against Poland using captured Ukrainian drones.<\/p>\n<p>Such statements highlight the relevance of monitoring disinformation campaigns and coordination among allies in the context of information security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ukrainian disinformation official warns Moscow may use captured or disguised drones to stage provocations against NATO countries.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4050,5034,5014,5035,5036,54,3535],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-disinformation","tag-false-flag-russian-drones-nato-security-disinformation-gru-operations","tag-false-flag","tag-gru-operations","tag-nato-security","tag-news","tag-russian-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/nato\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}