Russia is increasing disinformation operations aimed at undermining government and public support for American military forces in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. officials.
The stepped-up disinformation includes creating and circulating recent news stories falsely claiming American soldiers were engaged in sexual misconduct in Poland and were exposed to mustard gas in Latvia.
A more recent example involved a Russian broadcaster falsely attributing a statement on Russian electronic warfare to a retired U.S. general.
A U.S. official in Europe said the military’s European Command and the State Department cannot say for sure whether Russia is behind the fake news stories. But the spreading of …read more
Source: The Washington Free Beacon
