KEY EVENTS

• The EU has imposed sanctions on Euromore and Pravfond for influence operations targeting European audiences.
• Pro-Kremlin disinformation recasts Ukraine as a terrorist and NATO as an aggressor, recycling debunked claims (e.g. “biolabs”, secret infrastructure).
• False narratives about the Bucha massacre persist, shifting from denial to elaborate conspiracy theories to deflect blame.

LAST WEEK IN REVIEW

In response to persistent FIMI operations, the EU has repeatedly imposed sanctions against organisations and individuals that push disinformation about Russia’s illegal war against Ukraine. In the most recent step, on 21 April 2026, the EU added Euromore and the Foundation for the Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad (Pravfond) to its sanctions list for ongoing influence operations targeting European audiences. Euromore is a media platform that unofficially operates within the pro-Kremlin information architecture to amplify Kremlin narratives attacking the EU and legitimising the war against Ukraine. Pravfond served as a channel of financing a variety of Russian operations and pro-Kremlin actors across several European countries – a ‘core instrument of the Russian Federation’s foreign influence and propaganda strategy, which is founded and financed by the Russian state’, according to the Council of the EU. The two entities facilitated and delivered Russian FIMI undermining international support for Ukraine.

FIMI NARRATIVES

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