Fake website inviting volunteers for war in Ukraine shut down in France
The site contained signs of a Russian disinformation campaign claiming that France was preparing to send troops to Ukraine
The French Ministry of Defence has reported that authorities have discovered a website that invited volunteers to fight on the side of Ukraine. The site looked like an official portal with vacancies in the French army. It has now been shut down, an anonymous source told AFP.
Adverts on the site stated that Ukraine was looking for 200,000 candidates from France, with preference given to alleged immigrants.
A link to this resource was posted on Twitter. The Ministry of Defence posted on the same network that the site was fake and that the link was being shared by accounts that maliciously spread disinformation.
Officially, the ministry did not specify who was being targeted, but a source close to the government told AFP that all traces point to communication structures linked to the former Wagner PMC – Evgeny Prigozhin had not only a private army of mercenaries, but also a network of propaganda structures targeting different audiences in Russia and abroad.
"The accounts and the technical data under them are people we know," AFP quoted its source as saying. Another government source said that the site contained "signs of Russian or pro-Russian activity as part of a disinformation campaign claiming that the French army is preparing to send troops to Ukraine".
Background. Macron's words about sending Western troops to Ukraine reportedly angered the United States. This was dangerous given that a number of countries had already secretly sent some personnel to Ukraine, sources said.
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