“Mobile Information Aggregators.” Russia uses trucks to spread propaganda in Mariupol – Observer

Russian forces have already taken Mariupol Two months after the Ukrainian resistance. As the port city begins to return to a possible normal life – despite residents having no access to clean water or electricity – Russia has sent to the site three “mobile information complexes”, Any trucks with screens that constantly show Russian TV programs and propaganda.

The Russians are showing an ad from a truck. Three such “propaganda vehicles” are going around # Mariupol Trying to convince people to improve their lives. It doesn’t matter if a humanitarian disaster unfolds
Source: consultant to # Mariupol Mayor of the city pic.twitter.com/jyOt6ugVcU

– Olena Halushka 26 May 2022

According to the Guardian, the Russian Emergencies Ministry justification This initiative is due to the fact that people in Mariupol have been in an “information vacuum for three months” due to a “lack of electricity”. Trucks are sent to places where city residents gatherthat is, where they can receive humanitarian aid and clean water and where they can apply for Russian documents.

One of the information complexes has been repaired, the other two are moving “through different parts of Mariupol”, as noted by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, which also reported the presence of such trucks in Volnovaka and Krasnolimansky, which Show information to residents, Fee and tales for children.

Which Newsweek has access to, some excerpts who are they Software in the truck advises people not to touch Russian combat helicopters and another program shows more details about police departments in Mariupol.

Ukrainian leaders condemned the Russian initiative and responded with astonishment. For example, Petro Andryushenko, adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol, according to the British newspaper, said that ‘Practice ‘There’s Nothing to Eat,’ So We Feed Lies ‘Gaining Popularity’: “sarcasm at its best”.