June 5, 2023

Ukraine continues with mind games ahead of its counteroffensive, and it seems to be working already.

The version above has some English subtitles in it instead of Ukrainian words.

Source: NY Post

Ukrainian hackers breached Russian TV channels in occupied Crimea Sunday, broadcasting a slickly-produced video hinting at the impending start of Kyiv’s counteroffensive.

Several Ukrainian news outlets reported that broadcasts of the Russian cable channels “Rossiya” and “Friday” were interrupted with a recording from Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense, showing Kyiv’s heavily armed troops staring into the camera while holding a finger to their lips.

The enigmatic footage was accompanied by a message in Ukrainian that read: “Plans like silence. There will be no announcement that ‘it’s starting.'”

The clip ended with a shot of two fighter jets soaring in the sky – an apparent nod to Ukraine’s efforts to procure warplanes from its Western allies — and a man’s voice off camera saying: “shhh.”

Ukraine’s national public broadcasting company, known as Suspilne, reported the hack, citing information from a resident in the city of Simferopol in Crimea, according to the Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda.

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence.

UPDATE: And some more fuckery, this time inside Russia, designed to instill panic.

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