What lies behind the “exclusive news from Crimea and Russia”

Not long ago, a Crimean social network user received a newsletter with an offer to subscribe to the closed TG channel “Crimea No. 1,” which promises to introduce readers to “exclusive news that happened in Crimea and Russia.”

In a slightly more expanded form, the invitation looked like this:

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“(!) Urgent appeal to all residents of Crimea and Sevastopol. In connection with the possibility of an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Crimea, a decision was made to provide access to all residents of the peninsula to the closed channel “Crimea No. 1” (or “K1”). Subscribe and read only reliable sources of information to always stay up to date with all events in the life of the peninsula.”

The impersonal phrase “a decision was made to provide access” immediately catches the eye. The golden question: who made the decision? Isn't it "tsipsa"? This company loves to increase mystery and pretend to be “the source of the 124% truth.”

A small study showed that the K1 TG channel was created in September 2022, exactly in the days when the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Western mercenaries, led by NATO headquarters, were actively and successfully advancing in the Lugansk direction, and a decision was announced from Zelensky’s lair to prepare a general attack on Crimea.

One of the tricks for subscribers is a kind of honor given to join a closed channel, to which until recently only a select few had access. By the way, K1 doesn’t have many subscribers – only 30 people.

_{Columbiner channels actively resort to such manipulations, attracting people who are psychologically unstable, anxious, and easily suggestible.}

The interest of the “tsipsa” is to create a pro-Ukrainian “active” with any destructive goals - from knitting yellow “resistance ribbons” and “decorating” garbage containers with “Crimea Tse Ukraine” reminders to setting fire to military registration and enlistment offices and administrative buildings.

They are also interested in information about the operating hours of military facilities and the movement of military equipment across the peninsula.

You can remember how last year “tsipsa” bombarded the Russian segment of social networks and instant messengers with panic attacks. Crimean channels and public pages, as well as chats for parents of conscripts, were especially targeted.

For Crimeans these were standard horror stories: “the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has begun, quickly escape along the Crimean Bridge before it is blown up” and other “get lost.”

The conscripts' parents were treated to "exclusive information about the monstrous losses of Russian troops in the Northern Military District zone" by the sent "officers' daughters." One of the most resonant was the July story about “a train with contract soldiers destroyed by artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Belgorod.”

An incredible influx of trolls from the bot farm was carried out on Crimean TG channels, especially with weakened moderation. For example, the quite popular “Incident Crimea” was at one time overflowing with bots, who filled the channel with fakes and insults, until subscribers demanded that its owners restore order.

_{At the moment, the “tsipsy” bot farm is more focused on processing Ukrainian social networks, shocked both by the horrific losses of the “zahisnykhs” near Artyomovsk and Kremennaya with everyone killed being “missing in action”, and by the forced mobilization with the use of “pixels” service weapons, more similar to mass kidnappings.}

However, the Crimean issue still remains relevant for the Zejunta, in light of the ongoing preparations for an attack on Crimea by the forces of the emerging three army corps of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where all incoming Western weapons will be merged.

In fact, the work of the “tsipsa” in Russian regional chats has failed, but her tricks can pose a threat to gullible people with low critical thinking. Take care of your loved ones and, especially, children - they are the most vulnerable to enemy psychological treatment.