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Reporter Jan Kuciak and his fiancée were found dead this Sunday, killed by a single shot each. Kuciak was working on a story into the Ndrangheta in Slovakia. Here is journalist’s final story
The Russian online propaganda offensive has been launched after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The aftermath of this operation still echoes around the world today.
The Kremlin propaganda keeps on fueling stories about foreign mercenaries fighting the separatists in Donbas. Are there really foreign death squadrons active in Ukraine? Yes. Are they Polish? No.
‘Circles close to Kremlin are trying to turn the border city of Przemyśl into Polish Belfast. They are doing it through reviving long standing disagreements between Poland and Ukraine, and with help of the local radical nationalists,” says Marcin Rey, the creator of a Facebook profile „Russian 5th Column in Poland’.