Propaganda

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Official denial by the leadership of the Russian Federation of the participation of Russian regular troops in the seizure of the peninsula, in order to conceal the fact of aggression under the guise of actions by "local self-defense"^[1].

A massive campaign of fabricating fakes to dehumanize Ukrainians (the myth of the "crucified boy" in Sloviansk, the invented death of a 10-year-old girl in Donetsk), as well as systematic editing of Wikipedia by Russian trolls to distort the facts about the war^[6]. A targeted information operation to conceal the Russian Federation's responsibility for the destruction of passenger flight MH17 by simultaneously injecting numerous contradictory and absurd versions (the "Spanish air traffic controller Carlos," an attack by a Ukrainian ground-attack aircraft) to disorient the international community^[6].

Construction of a new Soviet-imperial historical canon to supplant the Ukrainian past and deny the independence of Ukraine's history^[1].

Deliberate injection of false historical narratives on the international stage: V. Putin's statement to G. W. Bush that Ukraine is "not even a state" and that its territories were allegedly given away as gifts^[1].

Use of a landing party of Russian political technologists to wage an aggressive information campaign in which political opponents were demonized and groundlessly accused of fascism^[1].

Total information control and a legislative ban inside the Russian Federation on calling the invasion a "war" (use of the euphemism "special military operation") in order to conceal crimes and create an alternative reality^[2]. Information cover for energy terror: false claims by the authorities of the Russian Federation that the strikes on the power grid were a "response" to the attack on the Crimean Bridge, despite evidence that the missile strikes had been prepared in advance^[11].

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^[2].

Creation of an artificial picture of radiological well-being and the criminal, forced marching of people into the May Day demonstrations in Kyiv under radioactive fallout to mask the catastrophe^[3].

Total ideological control over art and the press, banning of literary works, and vilification of writers for alleged "bourgeois nationalism"^[1].

The propaganda apparatus of the Russian Empire used poetry to broadcast the logic of domination into society: the imperial historian and participant in the events V. A. Potto records that the poet A. S. Pushkin proclaimed in verse the inevitability of subjugation: «Submit, Caucasus - Yermolov is coming!»^[18], while the poet V. A. Zhukovsky extolled the destruction of infrastructure by military commanders: «Scarcely at the villages - the villages blaze»^[19].

A large-scale state campaign to construct the historical myth of "reunification" (instead of annexation) in order to provide historical justification for Moscow's colonial domination over Kyiv^[1].