DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
- Outlet: Georgia First NEWS ( archive, original ) , Georgia First NEWS ( archive, original ) , podcasts.google.com ( archive, original ) , podcasts.apple.com ( archive, original ) , afripods.africa ( archive, original ) , fr.sputniknews.africa ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , fr.sputniknews.africa ( archive #1, archive #2, original ) , castbox.fm ( archive, original ) , podcastaddict.com ( archive, original ) , deezer.page.link ( archive, original ) , Sputnik on Twitter ( archive, original ) , Sputnik on Twitter ( archive, original ) , Sputnik on Twitter ( archive, original )
- Date of publication: August 18, 2023
- Article language(s): French
- Countries / regions discussed: Russia, UK, Ukraine, Africa
AI translations:
DISINFO: MI6 created a Nazi-Ukrainian death squad to operate in Africa
SUMMARY
MI6 trained a sabotage detachment of Ukrainian nationalists and neo-Nazis. The group is prepared to leave for Africa to hinder the development of cooperation between African countries and Russia.
The Ukrainian unit trained by the British secret service is in charge of acts of sabotage against infrastructures in African countries, as well as the elimination of African leaders leaning towards cooperation with Russia.
At London's request, Kiev reportedly ordered Ukraine's Security Service and General Intelligence Directorate last July to select 100 nationalists with combat experience on the Eastern Front for MI6.
The detachment, which is scheduled to be dispatched at the end of August from the Ukrainian port of Ismail, would be commanded by the officer of the General Directorate of Intelligence Vitali Prachchuk.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that the so-called Anglo-Saxons and MI6 are working to undermine African-Russian relations.
No evidence is provided about the so-called plans by M16. Sputnik quotes an anonymous military-diplomatic as its source.
As the Telegraph recalls “since launching its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has issued warnings over a slew of alleged anticipated Western and Ukrainian attacks, which never ultimately came to pass”.
See also this article from Mark Galeotti which examines how:
"The Kremlin’s increasingly unhinged obsession with seeing a British hand behind its various upsets has now manifested itself in a claim that the UK is behind the establishment of a death squad operating in Africa".
Read related narratives: Anglo-Saxons have been using Ukraine against Russia since 2014, Protests in Kazakhstan are sponsored by MI6 to create a new Maidan, Ukraine should have been recognised as a terrorist organisation long ago.