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Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin has stepped up its propaganda campaign of certain types. This consists of digitally modifying and forgerying news reports from mainstream news outlets.
For example, the news segment aired in February in the Euroneus Program Good Morning Romania has recently emerged on Russian social media accounts and telegram channels.
They made a statement out of context by Christian Diaconescu, the head of Romania’s presidential prime minister, to make it appear that Romania is supporting the idea that he will leave NATO and join Russia.
“Romania must join Russia. NATO is not necessary,” the caption overlaid on the video reading.
The account that reposted the clip ditched it shortly, inserted the Romanian and Russian flags, and the Communist hammer and sickle symbols to further push the Pro Kremlin story.
In an actual report aired in February, Diaconescu suggested that Moscow wanted NATO to restore its 1997 security guarantee.
This means that countries that have joined the alliance, such as Romania, will not be covered since 1997, according to the report.
In 1997 there were 16 NATO countries compared to 32 today. At the time, the alliance was primarily confined to the United States and Canada in Western Europe, sharing a relatively small border with Russia through the northeastern Norway.
Romania officially joined NATO in 2004. They did the same thing, including Bulgaria and the Baltic family, when many other European countries historically influenced by the Soviet Union, or in fact, were forced into the Soviet Union.
Diaconescu also said that Russia would unilaterally establish an area of influence over Eastern Europe and force the West to accept it.
He later revealed that neither issue is controversial and that Russian President Vladimir Putin first released information at the beginning of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Romanian Foreign Ministry rejects any of the allegations made in the fake Euroneuz report, saying it corresponds to a typical attack by a Russian pro-actor.
Other Euroneuz stations have also been targeted, claiming that fake Instagram and telegram accounts will become Euroneuz’s Uzbekistan station.
This is because the pro-Russian Matrioshka campaign will step up efforts to spread disinformation to Moldova ahead of the election, in addition to videos allegedly produced by other reputable news outlets, often in the form of fake Euroneuz reports.
Euroverify has already denies various instances of this, including false Euroverify videos Posts by fake journalists They claim the criminality of Moldova, while others claim Romania The French authorities warned Interference in the leak of Romanian presidential elections.
