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According to the Department of Strategic Communication of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the dissemination of misleading and manipulative information was aimed at influencing the public, promoting the distrust of citizens towards membership of NATO and the Alliance, the highest authorities of Lithuania, and reduce the loyalty of the population to the state.
September 22 LK SKD experts recorded and suppressed a cyber-information attack against Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. An article on hacking was published following the hacking of the Polish news portal polanddaily.com, alleging that the Lithuanian and Polish foreign ministers allegedly offered to send peacekeeping forces to Belarus “behind closed doors”. Shortly after, this false information was also published on liveleak.com To increase its visibility, a false letter from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was sent to the editorial board of the weekly The New Yorker published in the United States, allegedly confirming the alleged bilateral conversation between the Lithuanian and Polish ministers. Ministry of Foreign Affairs September 23. issued an official statement confirming that a complex cyber-information attack had taken place against him and that the information disseminated during it was false.
The highest activation of negative information activities was recorded from September 2-4 and from September 10 to 16. and from September 20 to 25. These escalations are mainly related to the unanimous agreement of the three Baltic states on the boycott of the Astravas nuclear power plant, the meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Belarus on the diversion of Belarusian cargo from the port of Klaipeda, the call of President Nauseda for the EU to impose sanctions on Belarus, the Seimas resolution. , the visit of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the NATO Armed Forces, General T. Radford, to Lithuania, the meeting of Aliaksandr Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin in Sochi, the meeting of the Prime Ministers of Lithuania and Poland, the exercise of the NATO and the Armed Forces of Lithuania and the visit of the President of France
Last month the issue of tense relations between Lithuania and Belarus intensified. The hostile information environment provoked an active verbal confrontation aimed at discrediting the position of the President of the Republic of Lithuania and undermining the Seimas resolution “On the Union of Russia Illegal and Imposed in Belarus”. Belarus and the Kremlin-controlled media accused Lithuania of destabilizing Lithuania, along with Poland, has been portrayed as a non-autonomous state, favored by the United States, which Washington orders to incite and finance a coup in Belarus.
Belarus-controlled media in September also paid a lot of attention to the defense field. In the hostile information environment, the narrative that Lithuania allegedly invades the territorial integrity of Belarus was formed, and the narrative that our country allegedly provoked Belarus due to the deployment of NATO forces on the border continued very actively. During this period, hostile portals highlighted the alleged aggressive nature of NATO and its threat to regional security. News portals controlled by Belarus and the Kremlin have spread manipulative and misleading information that Lithuania, Poland, and the United States want to turn Belarus into a battlefield, and NATO is planning a “great war in Europe, sending military convoys” .
September 1 The unanimous common position of the Baltic states on the boycott of the Astravas nuclear power plant in Belarus has also caused much discontent in the media controlled by the Kremlin and Lukashenko. Lithuania has been accused of spreading a lie about the inadequate safety of this nuclear power plant, a growing narrative about the increase in the price of electricity for the population, when Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia refused to buy electricity from the nuclear power plant of Astrava.
Analysts from the Lithuanian Armed Forces Department of Strategic Communication warn the public in the country to be vigilant, carefully and critically evaluate the information received, rely on more than one source of information, and follow news broadcast by official institutions and the main communication media.
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