The enemy uses the most vulnerable topics and categories to disseminate its narratives and propaganda to demotivate Ukrainian citizens, unbalance the state, and make further resistance to the Russian war impossible, a representative of the Main Intelligence Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine Andriy Yusov said.

"The enemy spends huge resources on creating its own content, fakes, statements, disinformation, propaganda, but it spends even more resources in general not only on creating content, but on disseminating this or that propaganda and narratives," he said at a press conference "Information war: Key narratives created and disseminated by Russian propaganda" at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

Yusov also said the Russians "pick up" certain messages (often careless, unverified data, often from within Ukraine), twisting them to fit enemy propaganda narratives, and then disseminate them both among the Russian audience and "return" them already interpreted to the Ukrainian audience and try to promote them to the world.

"One way or another, individual messages of Russian propaganda are certainly invested in the Western world, separately – in the countries of the Global South. They work very well with audience targeting. And they use, without exaggeration, colossal resources for this," the agency said.

According to him, the enemy tracks and monitors everything in the information field, in particular statements and messages of politicians, speakers, experts.

"The enemy uses the most vulnerable topics and categories to spread its narratives and propaganda, primarily to Ukrainian society. Since the goal of this is, ultimately, to demotivate Ukrainian citizens, the nation, to unbalance the state in order to make further resistance to the Russian genocidal war against Ukraine impossible," the speaker said.

He also said that in this direction, Russia is not getting the results it wants.

"At the same time, the enemy is implementing a number of special active measures in the information sphere, information and psychological operations, against Ukraine, aimed at both Ukrainian society and our partners," the Ukrainian intelligence said.

Yusov named the main narratives spread by the enemy as follows: the theme of "betrayal" and the fact that Ukraine was allegedly abandoned by its partners and allies; the exaggeration of all internal problems in Ukraine; constant escalation and "hysteria" around the threats of using nuclear and other weapons; destabilization of the domestic political situation; discrediting Ukraine in the world. "Discrediting Ukraine in the world is a separate line that Russia continues to pursue. Weakening and attempting to split the pro-Ukrainian coalition. Everything that is potentially bad for Ukraine in the world is inflated and exaggerated in order to further influence societies in Ukraine and partner societies. Therefore, of course, these threats will be especially acute in the coming month," the agency said.