{"description": "russia-colonialism techniques used by Russian Federation, ATT&CK group G0011 (v1.1)", "name": "Russian Federation (G0011)", "domain": "russia-colonialism", "versions": {"layer": "4.5", "attack": "", "navigator": "5.2.0"}, "techniques": [{"techniqueID": "T0053", "comment": "Mass unlawful detentions and abductions of civilians in the occupied territories: \"armed groups continued to commit abductions, to subject people to physical and psychological torture and ill-treatment,\" and \"people were abducted for ransom, for forced labor, and for exchange for fighters captured by the Ukrainian authorities\"(Citation: \u0414\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434 \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u041e\u041e\u041d \u043f\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0432 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0435 (A/HRC/27/75) 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0005", "comment": "The exploitation of the Odesa tragedy to build a state propaganda myth and invert the roles: the actual picture, per the UN, is clashes \"between supporters of unity and supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, as a result of which 48 people died,\" while the investigation remains incomplete and \"no one has yet been held to account\"(Citation: \u0414\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434 \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u041e\u041e\u041d \u043f\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0432 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0435 (A/HRC/27/75) 2014). The tragedy was used as moral justification for further aggression - by the same device as the \"crucified boy\" fake, for which \"there is no evidence to support Pyshniak's claim\"(Citation: Fake: Crucifixion in Slovyansk 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0017", "comment": "The legal formalization of the territory's severance: the treaty on \"accession\" was signed on March 18, 2014, and the law ratifying it was \"Adopted by the State Duma on March 20, 2014, approved by the Federation Council on March 21, 2014\"(Citation: \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043d \u2116 36-\u0424\u0417 \u043e \u0440\u0430\u0442\u0438\u0444\u0438\u043a\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0434\u043e\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0430 \u0441 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u041a\u0440\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0015", "comment": "The imposition of corrupt gas-supply schemes through intermediary companies: Moscow \"used a series of intermediary trading companies (Itera from 1998, Eural Trans Gas from 2003, Rosukrenergo (RUE) from 2005) to transport, and sometimes to supply, the gas to Ukraine,\" a practice that \"was long criticized in European government circles and by corporate governance bodies (where there was concern about their opacity)\"(Citation: The Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute of January 2009 2009). RUE's co-owner Dmytro Firtash told the US ambassador in December 2008 outright that \"He acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure Seymon Mogilevich, stating he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place\"(Citation: Cable 08KYIV2414: Firtash makes his case to the USG 2008).\n\nThe use of economic blackmail and promises of a loan together with a gas discount to coerce V. Yanukovych into derailing the signing of the Association Agreement with the EU: on December 17, 2013, a reduction of the gas price \"to 268.5 dollars per thousand cubic meters\" (instead of 410) was announced, along with the fact that \"Ukraine, under the bilateral agreements, will receive 15 billion dollars from the Russian National Welfare Fund, selling Moscow its government securities for that amount.\" Putin stressed: \"We consider this a temporary solution, bearing in mind that long-term, long-lasting agreements must and will be reached\"(Citation: \u0412\u0438\u043a\u0442\u043e\u0440 \u042f\u043d\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0438\u0447 \u0438 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d \u0434\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0433\u043b\u0438 \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u0440\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430 \u0432 \u041c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u0432\u0435 2013).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0039", "comment": "An attempt to strike a deal with the US leader over Kyiv's head in order to block Ukraine's Euro-Atlantic integration under the threat of its dismemberment: Ukraine's accession to NATO would create \"a field of conflict for you and us, long-term confrontation,\" while Moscow, relying on anti-NATO forces, \"would be working on stripping NATO of the possibility of enlarging. Russia would be creating problems there all the time\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008). As retold by Kommersant's source from the summit itself: \"You understand, George, that Ukraine is not even a state! What is Ukraine? Part of its territory is Eastern Europe, and part - a considerable part - was gifted by us!\" - with a transparent hint \"that Russia could begin the severance of Crimea and Eastern Ukraine\"(Citation: \u0411\u043b\u043e\u043a \u041d\u0410\u0422\u041e \u0440\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0448\u0435\u043b\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u043f\u0430\u043a\u0435\u0442\u044b (\u041a\u043e\u043c\u043c\u0435\u0440\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0442\u044a) 2008).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0003", "comment": "Total indoctrination of Russian society with the ideas of the philosopher I. Ilyin (so-called \"white fascism\") and the transformation of the \"Russian World\" concept into a state ideology (rashism) that justifies the metropole's cultural superiority and existential right to violence against its neighbors(Citation: \u0420\u0430\u0448\u0438\u0437\u043c: \u0417\u0432\u0456\u0440 \u0437 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0456 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0136", "comment": "The use of a hacker group linked to the security services to compromise Ukrainian artillerymen's software: \"the filename '\u041f\u043e\u043f\u0440-\u041430.apk' was linked to a legitimate application which was initially developed domestically within Ukraine by an officer of the 55th Artillery Brigade named Yaroslav Sherstuk,\" and \"in-depth reverse engineering revealed the APK contained an Android variant of X-Agent\" - an implant whose exclusive operator is FANCY BEAR(Citation: Danger Close: Fancy Bear Tracking of Ukrainian Field Artillery Units 2016). The same toolkit was used in cyberattacks on the Ukrainian power grid in the winters of 2015 and 2016(Citation: 2015 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2023)(Citation: 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2023).\n\n\u041c\u0430\u0441\u0448\u0442\u0430\u0431\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u043e\u043f\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 \u0441\u043f\u0435\u0446\u0441\u043b\u0443\u0436\u0431 \u0420\u0424 \u043f\u043e \u043a\u0438\u0431\u0435\u0440\u0448\u043f\u0438\u043e\u043d\u0430\u0436\u0443, \u043f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0445\u0432\u0430\u0442\u0443 \u0434\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 (\u0432 \u0442\u043e\u043c \u0447\u0438\u0441\u043b\u0435 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0437 \u0432\u0437\u043b\u043e\u043c \u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0441\u0435\u0442\u0435\u0439 Wi-Fi) \u0438 \u0441\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0440\u0442\u044b\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u044e \u0434\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u043a\u0442\u0438\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u041f\u041e \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0438\u0432 \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u043e\u0440\u0433\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0437\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0439 \u0438 \u0433\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0434\u0430\u043d(Citation: APT28 Nearest Neighbor Campaign | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2025)(Citation: Campaign C0026 | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0006", "comment": "The conduct of an aggressive information campaign in favor of \"their\" candidate with the direct participation of the head of the Russian state: live on three Ukrainian television channels two weeks before the vote, praise was voiced for the candidate's government - \"V. Yanukovych's government achieved more: they managed to fill this growth with good quality. That is, Ukraine's economy is developing in a diversified way\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0436\u0438\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044f\u043c\u0438 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u044b 2004). In parallel, opponents were demonized with accusations of nationalism and pro-fascist views.\n\nAn article by D. Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, in Kommersant (11 October 2021) marginalizing the Ukrainian leadership: \"it is pointless for us to deal with vassals. One must do business with the suzerain\"; \"at the head of Ukraine stand weak people who strive only to line their own pockets,\" and negotiations with them are \"absolutely pointless\"(Citation: \u041f\u043e\u0447\u0435\u043c\u0443 \u0431\u0435\u0441\u0441\u043c\u044b\u0441\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0442\u044b \u0441 \u043d\u044b\u043d\u0435\u0448\u043d\u0438\u043c \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u0440\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c 2021). In the same text the Ukrainian president was likened to a hypothetical Jew serving in the SS(Citation: \u041f\u043e\u0447\u0435\u043c\u0443 \u0431\u0435\u0441\u0441\u043c\u044b\u0441\u043b\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b \u043a\u043e\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043a\u0442\u044b \u0441 \u043d\u044b\u043d\u0435\u0448\u043d\u0438\u043c \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u043c \u0440\u0443\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0434\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e\u043c 2021).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0117", "comment": "test", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0008", "comment": "The official denial of the Ukrainian nation's right to independent statehood: the article by the head of the Russian state declares outright that \"Ukraine's genuine sovereignty is possible precisely in partnership with Russia,\" while \"the wall that has arisen in recent years between Russia and Ukraine\" is declared a split of \"between parts of what is essentially one historical and spiritual space\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c\u044f \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u00ab\u041e\u0431 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0438 \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432\u00bb 2021).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0124", "comment": "Targeted cyberattacks by Russian security services on distribution substations of the Ukrainian power grid in the winters of 2015 and 2016, aimed at causing mass power outages for the civilian population(Citation: 2015 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2023)(Citation: 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack | MITRE ATT&CK\u00ae 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0137", "comment": "The deliberate injection of false historical narratives into the international arena: Ukraine, according to the Russian leader, \"is not a nation built in a natural manner\" and \"an artificial country created back in Soviet times,\" and its territories were supposedly gifts - \"In the 1920s and 1930s Ukraine obtained territory from Russia -- that's the eastern part of the country. In 1956, the Crimean peninsula was transferred to Ukraine\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008). From this the thesis of its possible disintegration was derived: \"the country could just split apart\"(Citation: Memorandum of Conversation: Meeting with President of Russia (Sochi) 2008).\n\nThe official denial of Russian troops' participation during the operation \u2013 and Putin's later admission (call-in show, 17 April 2014) that the denial was a lie: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). In the same broadcast an interlocutor congratulated him on having \"honestly said that the 'little green men' are our peaceful military\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).\n\nA massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians: on state television it was claimed that \"Ukrainian armed forces herded city residents to the central square and publicly executed a small boy and his mother,\" yet \"there is no evidence to support Pyshniak's claim,\" and the residents of Sloviansk who were interviewed did not confirm the story(Citation: Fake: Crucifixion in Slovyansk 2014). The same method produced the fabricated \"death of a 10-year-old girl\" in the Petrovskyi district of Donetsk (March 2015): BBC correspondents on the ground established that no such girl had ever existed(Citation: \u0411\u0438 \u0411\u0438 \u0421\u0438 \u0440\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0447\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043b\u043e\u0436\u044c \u0440\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u041c\u0418 \u043e \u044f\u043a\u043e\u0431\u044b \u043f\u043e\u0433\u0438\u0431\u0448\u0435\u0439 10-\u043b\u0435\u0442\u043d\u0435\u0439 \u0434\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0447\u043a\u0435 (StopFake) 2015). In parallel ran an operation to conceal responsibility for the destruction of flight MH17: the Russian Ministry of Defense \"made a series of self-contradictory claims blaming Ukraine, rather than Russia or Russian-led separatists, for the Boeing 777's shoot down,\" while a deputy defense minister publicly repeated \"a fabricated claim that originated on Twitter of how a Spanish air traffic controller named Carlos saw two Ukrainian fighter jets near MH17\"(Citation: The Kremlin's Shifting, Self-Contradicting Narratives on MH17 2019).\n\nTotal information control and a ban on calling the invasion a war - officially it was declared a \"special military operation\" whose stated aims were \"demilitarization and denazification\"(Citation: Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (A/HRC/52/62) 2023). The informational cover for energy terror rested on the \"response\" narrative: \"There is a lot of noise now about our strikes on the energy infrastructure of the neighboring country. Yes, we are doing this. But who started it?\"(Citation: \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d \u043d\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043b \u0443\u0434\u0430\u0440\u044b \u043f\u043e \u044d\u043d\u0435\u0440\u0433\u043e\u043e\u0431\u044a\u0435\u043a\u0442\u0430\u043c \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u044b \u043e\u0442\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043e\u043c \u043d\u0430 \u0434\u0435\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0438\u044f \u041a\u0438\u0435\u0432\u0430 2022).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0108", "comment": "Direct energy blackmail and the cut-off of gas supplies at the height of winter: on January 1, 2006 - \"at 10.00am Moscow time on January 1, 2006, Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine\"(Citation: The Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis of January 2006 2006); on January 1, 2009 - \"Russian exports to Ukraine were cut off on 1 January,\" after which exports to the EU were \"drastically reduced on 6 January and cut completely from 7 January,\" and in the worst-affected Balkan countries a humanitarian emergency ensued, with \"parts of the populations unable to heat their homes\"(Citation: The Russo-Ukrainian gas dispute of January 2009 2009).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0043", "comment": "Deliberate restoration of old Soviet or imperial names to captured cities and streets (in particular, the renaming of Bakhmut to Artemovsk) in order to erase Ukrainian national memory and visually integrate them into the space of the Russian Federation.", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0118", "comment": "Deliberate mass killings of people without regard to their ethnic origin, solely on the basis of their Ukrainian citizenship and affiliation with the Ukrainian state(Citation: \u0420\u0430\u0448\u0438\u0437\u043c: \u0417\u0432\u0456\u0440 \u0437 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0456 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0035", "comment": "Coercing residents of the occupied territories into taking Russian passports: \"the policy of mass conferral of Russian citizenship to residents of occupied areas of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions exacerbated the coercive environment there,\" and \"those who refused Russian passports were denied access to public services, notably social security, healthcare, and education, and risked unemployment\" and \"faced a heightened risk of arbitrary detention when crossing checkpoints\"(Citation: Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 1 February to 31 July 2023 (OHCHR) 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0113", "comment": "test", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0019", "comment": "The use of regular troops without insignia to establish control over the peninsula. A year later V. Putin admitted it on his call-in show of 17 April 2014: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood. They acted very correctly, but\u2026 decisively and professionally\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). Ukrainian garrisons on the peninsula were blockaded and disarmed, as Putin himself admitted: \"and the way the Ukrainian units were disarmed - all of this was done so swiftly that it seemed it had been prepared for an incredibly long time\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).\n\nThe overt crossing of the state border by regular Russian troops in the summer and autumn of 2014 to save the separatists from defeat: the \"DNR\" commander admitted that the decisive role was played by Russian servicemen who came \"on leave\" - \"it was mostly 'vacationers' who advanced on Mariupol. When they left, both the front line and the opportunities became precarious\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432: \u0421\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u0440\u044e\u0447\u043e\u043a \u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430\u0436\u0430\u043b \u044f 2014). The offensive resulted in heavy losses for the Ukrainian army near Ilovaisk and Debaltseve. The presence of regular troops continued into 2015: the GRU men captured near Shchastia were \"soldiers of the 3rd Separate Guards Special Purpose Brigade of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, who arrived on the territory of Ukraine on March 26 and were quartered in Luhansk\"(Citation: \u00ab\u041a\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0447\u0435, \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0435\u0434\u043a\u0430 \u2014 \u0440\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f\u043d\u0435\u00bb. \u041a\u0430\u043a \u0438\u0441\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0438, \u0441\u0443\u0434\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0449\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043a\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u0415\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0435\u0435\u0432\u0430 \u0438 \u0441\u0435\u0440\u0436\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0430 \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430 (\u041c\u0435\u0434\u0438\u0430\u0437\u043e\u043d\u0430) 2016).\n\nThe invasion by the regular Russian army and massive missile and air strikes on Ukrainian cities: \"On 24 February 2022, the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, announced his decision to conduct a 'special military operation' in Ukraine to seek its 'demilitarization and denazification'. On the same day, Russian troops crossed various border points into Ukraine, including through Belarus, and launched attacks by land, air and sea\"(Citation: Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (A/HRC/52/62) 2023). The UN Commission investigated the events of February-March 2022 in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Sumy Provinces(Citation: Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (A/HRC/52/62) 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0021", "comment": "An attempt to physically eliminate the leader of the democratic opposition V. Yushchenko at the height of the election campaign by dioxin poisoning: in late December 2004 \"a patient presented with TCDD poisoning; the levels in his blood serum (108000 pg/g lipid weight) were more than 50 000-fold greater than those in the general population\"(Citation: TCDD poisoning in Victor Yushchenko (The Lancet) 2009). The poisoning led to severe disfigurement of the candidate's face.\n\nThe physical elimination of legitimate representatives of local government who resisted the occupation: \"the mutilated body of Volodomyr Rybak, a member of the 'Batkivshchyna' party and deputy of the Municipal Council of Horlivka (Donetsk region), was found near the village of Raihorodok,\" and \"Rybak was abducted on April 17 by pro-Russians, following a pro-Ukrainian gathering in Horlivka. He was then tortured and murdered\"(Citation: Ukraine: The Forgotten Victims (FIDH) 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0018", "comment": "The seizure of Sloviansk by an armed group that had crossed the border, and the formation of the separatist \"DNR\"/\"LNR\": the detachment's commander openly admitted that \"in practice it was our detachment that set in motion the flywheel of the war that is still going on,\" and that \"it was I, after all, who pulled the trigger of the war\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0435\u043b\u043a\u043e\u0432: \u0421\u043f\u0443\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0439 \u043a\u0440\u044e\u0447\u043e\u043a \u0432\u043e\u0439\u043d\u044b \u043d\u0430\u0436\u0430\u043b \u044f 2014). In parallel, \"groups of armed men unlawfully carried out a well-organized and coordinated seizure of public buildings and police and security service offices\"(Citation: \u0414\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434 \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u041e\u041e\u041d \u043f\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0432 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0435 (A/HRC/27/75) 2014). The \"republic's\" leadership was from the outset dispatched from Moscow: \"Alexander Boroday - the first prime minister of the DNR, who in 2014 handed over his powers to Alexander Zakharchenko,\" a Muscovite raised \"in an intelligentsia Moscow family\"(Citation: \u0410\u043b\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0430\u043d\u0434\u0440 \u0411\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0439: \u044f \u043c\u043e\u0433\u0443 \u0432\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0443\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f, \u043d\u043e \u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0430 \u0414\u043e\u043d\u0431\u0430\u0441\u0441, \u0430 \u0443\u0436\u0435 \u0432 \u041a\u0438\u0435\u0432 (\u0410\u0438\u0424) 2016).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0037", "comment": "The installation of a controlled administration under military cover: the decisions of the Crimean parliament were taken in conditions where \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014). The UN General Assembly declared the ensuing referendum void and confirmed that it \"was not authorized by Ukraine\"(Citation: Territorial integrity of Ukraine (A/RES/68/262) 2014). OHCHR recorded the \"election\" scene itself: overnight into 27 February \"armed groups without insignia took over the buildings of the local government and parliament,\" and \"on 27 February, members of the Parliament of Crimea, in the presence of gunmen, dismissed the local Government and elected Sergey Aksenov as the Head of Crimea\"(Citation: Situation of human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol (OHCHR) 2017).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0162", "comment": "test", "showSubtechniques": true}, {"techniqueID": "T0004", "comment": "The publication of the manifesto \"On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians\" (July 2021), constructing a pseudo-historical myth: \"Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a single whole,\" while modern borders are declared the result of the fact that \"the Bolsheviks' actions in severing from Russia its historical territories are not considered a criminal act\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c\u044f \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u00ab\u041e\u0431 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0438 \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432\u00bb 2021). The same article describes how Lenin personally \"persuaded\" the leaders of the Donetsk-Kryvyi Rih republic \"to act within Soviet Ukraine,\" and how the Central Committee resolved \"to create at the congress 'one government for all of Ukraine'\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c\u044f \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u0430 \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u0430 \u00ab\u041e\u0431 \u0438\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u0435\u0434\u0438\u043d\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0438 \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0446\u0435\u0432\u00bb 2021). On the eve of the invasion the thesis was taken to its limit: in his address of February 21, 2022 Putin declared that \"modern Ukraine was entirely and wholly created by Russia, or, to be more precise, by Bolshevik, communist Russia,\" and called the country \"Ukraine named after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin\" - \"He is its author and architect\"(Citation: \u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0449\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u041f\u0440\u0435\u0437\u0438\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0424\u0435\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0446\u0438\u0438 21 \u0444\u0435\u0432\u0440\u0430\u043b\u044f 2022 \u0433\u043e\u0434\u0430 2022).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0109", "comment": "The manufacturing of an appearance of mass pro-Russian mobilization on the peninsula: behind the \"self-defense forces,\" in whose name the operation was conducted, stood Russian troops, as Putin admitted on 17 April 2014: \"behind the backs of Crimea's self-defense forces, our servicemen, of course, stood\"(Citation: Territorial integrity of Ukraine (A/RES/68/262) 2014). Rally and \"volunteer\" crowds supplied the picture of a popular impulse whose legal significance the UN rejected(Citation: \u041f\u0440\u044f\u043c\u0430\u044f \u043b\u0438\u043d\u0438\u044f \u0441 \u0412\u043b\u0430\u0434\u0438\u043c\u0438\u0440\u043e\u043c \u041f\u0443\u0442\u0438\u043d\u044b\u043c 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0014", "comment": "The instigation of armed clashes in Odesa on May 2, 2014: the UN records the violence committed \"in Odesa on 2 May 2014 during clashes between supporters of unity and supporters of the federalization of Ukraine, as a result of which 48 people died, mostly supporters of the country's federalization,\" and notes that \"no one has yet been held to account\"(Citation: \u0414\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434 \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u041e\u041e\u041d \u043f\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0432 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0435 (A/HRC/27/75) 2014). The culmination was the fire in the Trade Union Building where activists had taken refuge: the UN monitoring mission listed among the key uninvestigated questions \"what caused the fire in the Trade Union building\" and \"who are the perpetrators of the killings\"(Citation: Report on the human rights situation in Ukraine, 15 June 2014 (OHCHR) 2014).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0020", "comment": "An attempted armed seizure of power in the spring of 2014 by storming regional administrations: the UN recorded that already \"in mid-April 2014\" \"groups of armed men unlawfully carried out a well-organized and coordinated seizure of public buildings and police and security service offices in towns and villages of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions,\" and \"in order to retain control of the seized areas these groups erected barricades and checkpoints\"(Citation: \u0414\u043e\u043a\u043b\u0430\u0434 \u0412\u0435\u0440\u0445\u043e\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0433\u043e \u043a\u043e\u043c\u0438\u0441\u0441\u0430\u0440\u0430 \u041e\u041e\u041d \u043f\u043e \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432\u0430\u043c \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u043e \u043f\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0436\u0435\u043d\u0438\u0438 \u0432 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u043f\u0440\u0430\u0432 \u0447\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0435\u043a\u0430 \u0432 \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u0435 (A/HRC/27/75) 2014). In Kharkiv the coup was quickly suppressed.", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0012", "comment": "The instigation of the threat of splitting the country in response to the protests: at the congress in Sievierodonetsk on November 28, 2004, Regions faction leader R. Bohatyriova gave a direct promise of a separatist referendum - \"we will not go to it with you, we will hold a referendum on the creation of a South-Eastern state (ovation, applause)\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0430 \u0421\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0446\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u044a\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0430 2004). The presence of Russian officials lent this Moscow's sanction: the mayor of Moscow Yu. Luzhkov reminded the hall from the rostrum that \"our President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was the first to congratulate Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych on his victory\"(Citation: \u0421\u0442\u0435\u043d\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u043c\u043c\u0430 \u0421\u0435\u0432\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043e\u043d\u0435\u0446\u043a\u043e\u0433\u043e \u0441\u044a\u0435\u0437\u0434\u0430 2004).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0158", "comment": "From April 2022 the Russian occupation administrations marked the seized territories with imperial signs - in stone and on paper. In Kherson oblast more than 110 Lenin monuments had been dismantled before the invasion, with practically none left; after the occupation the invaders erected ten new ones: the first in Henichesk in April 2022 - the first Lenin monument on Ukrainian territory since 2014 - and at the end of that same month a monument was returned to its pedestal by the city council in Nova Kakhovka(Citation: \u0406\u0434\u0435\u043e\u043b\u043e\u0433\u0456\u044f \u0432 \u0431\u0440\u043e\u043d\u0437\u0456: \u043d\u0430\u0432\u0456\u0449\u043e \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0456\u044f \u00ab\u0437\u0430\u0441\u0456\u0432\u0430\u0454\u00bb \u043e\u043a\u0443\u043f\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0443 \u0425\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0449\u0438\u043d\u0443 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u0457\u043c\u0438 \u043c\u043e\u043d\u0443\u043c\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043c\u0438 2026). In Mariupol on 5 May 2022 a monument to a woman with a red flag was unveiled, and the ceremony was published in his Telegram channel by Andrei Turchak, secretary of the general council of \"United Russia\"; the Square of the Warrior-Liberators, named in honor of those who freed the city from the Nazis, was given back its Soviet name of \"Lenin Komsomol Square\" by the occupiers(Citation: \u0423 \u041c\u0430\u0440\u0456\u0443\u043f\u043e\u043b\u0456 \u043e\u043a\u0443\u043f\u0430\u043d\u0442\u0438 \u0432\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u0430\u043c'\u044f\u0442\u043d\u0438\u043a \u00ab\u0431\u0430\u0431\u0446\u0456 \u0437 \u0447\u0435\u0440\u0432\u043e\u043d\u043e\u044e \u0433\u0430\u043d\u0447\u0456\u0440\u043a\u043e\u044e\u00bb 2022). In parallel the occupation administration papered the territory with banners: in Kherson and Nova Kakhovka hung Russian-language billboards reading \"Russia is here forever!,\" \"Kherson - forever with Russia,\" \"Kherson is a Russian city,\" and for them they bought, for twenty cents on a stock-photo site, a picture by the Ukrainian photographer Anna Pasichnyk - her son Yaroslav with a friend in vyshyvankas in a rapeseed field near Kyiv - painting a Russian flag in behind the children's backs(Citation: \u0423\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0438\u043d\u043a\u0430 \u043e\u0431\u043d\u0430\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0438\u043b\u0430 \u0441\u0432\u043e\u044e \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0438\u044e \u0441 \u0434\u0435\u0442\u044c\u043c\u0438 \u0432 \u0432\u044b\u0448\u0438\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0430\u0445 \u043d\u0430 \u0431\u0438\u043b\u0431\u043e\u0440\u0434\u0435 \u0432 \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0434\u0435\u0440\u0436\u043a\u0443 \u0430\u043d\u043d\u0435\u043a\u0441\u0438\u0438 \u0425\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0430 2022). In Balakliia in Kharkiv oblast the occupiers pasted over a city banner: first they hung \"Ukraine and Russia are 'one'\" on top of it, then a poster with a tricolor reading \"We are one people with Russia!\". On 10 September 2022 Ukrainian soldiers tore the tricolor down - and beneath it emerged the lines of Shevchenko that had stood there through the entire occupation: \"Fight - and you shall prevail! God is helping you! Truth is with you, glory is with you, and holy freedom!\"(Citation: \u00ab\u0411\u043e\u0440\u0456\u0442\u0435\u0441\u044f - \u043f\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0440\u0435\u0442\u0435\u00bb: \u0456\u0441\u0442\u043e\u0440\u0456\u044f \u043f\u043b\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0442\u0430 \u0437 \u0440\u044f\u0434\u043a\u0430\u043c\u0438 \u0428\u0435\u0432\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043a\u0430, \u044f\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0440\u043e\u0441\u0456\u044f\u043d\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u043a\u043b\u0435\u0457\u043b\u0438 \u043f\u0456\u0434 \u0447\u0430\u0441 \u043e\u043a\u0443\u043f\u0430\u0446\u0456\u0457 \u0411\u0430\u043b\u0430\u043a\u043b\u0456\u0457 2023). The signs held only until de-occupation: on 11 November 2022, a \"Russia is here forever\" poster in liberated Bilozerka in the Kherson region was torn down by local residents - the video was published by the Telegram channel \"Nikolaevsky Vanek\"(Citation: \u0412 \u043e\u0441\u0432\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0436\u0434\u0435\u043d\u043d\u043e\u0439 \u0411\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0437\u0435\u0440\u043a\u0435 \u0425\u0435\u0440\u0441\u043e\u043d\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u043e\u0431\u043b\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0441\u0440\u044b\u0432\u0430\u044e\u0442 \u043f\u043b\u0430\u043a\u0430\u0442\u044b \u00ab\u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f \u0437\u0434\u0435\u0441\u044c \u043d\u0430\u0432\u0441\u0435\u0433\u0434\u0430\u00bb 2022).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}, {"techniqueID": "T0022", "comment": "Engagement in combat operations of Russian neo-Nazi groups (such as the \"Rusich\" sabotage and reconnaissance group under the command of A. Milchakov), whose ringleaders openly called for unmotivated sadistic violence against civilians (\"Slaughter the homeless, the puppies, and the children!\")(Citation: \u0420\u0430\u0448\u0438\u0437\u043c: \u0417\u0432\u0456\u0440 \u0437 \u0431\u0435\u0437\u043e\u0434\u043d\u0456 2023).", "score": 1, "color": "#ff66f4", "showSubtechniques": false}], "gradient": {"colors": ["#ffffff", "#66b1ff"], "minValue": 0, "maxValue": 1}, "legendItems": [{"label": "used by Russian Federation", "color": "#66b1ff"}, {"label": "used by a campaign attributed to Russian Federation", "color": "#ff6666"}, {"label": "used by Russian Federation and used by a campaign attributed to Russian Federation", "color": "#ff66f4"}]}