Ivan Hnatyshak is a second-hand book dealer and the author of a popular Tik Tok account that popularizes rare Ukrainian books.

And also fights with fakes, which the enemy uses to fight against us: "The Russian FSB spreads propaganda.

Ukrainians, not understanding that this is propaganda, support some theses that seem correct to them, but actually harm our state." 

One day, Ivan came across a suspicious page, apparently, of the Ukrainian military. 

"This is an account of a Facebook user who already has 19,000 subscribers, and his videos are gaining millions.

He stole videos from our military, selected videos by topic and successfully signed disinformation under specific videos in Ukrainian.

He did not film himself.

He threw out fakes that they are not well fed in the Armed Forces, posted videos where they process bones, some kind of cartilage, chicken legs.

And he said that, they say, look, my brother sent me, this is what they feed in the Armed Forces, they make dumplings from it.

He told me that Russian dry rations are very tasty."

"Information and psychological operations against the background of conducting active military operations occupy approximately 70%", - says Mykhailo Makaruk, military officer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, information security expert. 

"Do you remember there was a ship called "Blue Whale"?

It was all the work of the FSB.

The goal is to provoke a certain amount of panic and child suicides for the adoption of a draft law on controlled Internet in Russia.

Mrs. Mizulina brought it.

It was preparation for a large-scale invasion of Ukraine - management of information flows." 

Ivan Hnatyshak continues to share the results of the research on fakes: "The next thesis that was spreading - about large losses in Bakhmut, it was very important for them." 

"This information attack is aimed at relatives, who then call their relatives at the front line.

They say that, they say, all our people have retreated, what are you doing there, they just threw you away." 

"If you see that information that harms our armed forces is regularly and consistently published, such a resource is already suspicious.

And you shouldn't go there," emphasizes Iryna Pryanishnikova, spokeswoman for the police of the Kyiv region. 

"Also, the danger was that people who had no connection with the military, who were under Bakhmut, started to write the names of their relatives and loved ones in social networks," Ivan Hnatyshak points out the purpose of spreading disinformation.

- And people thought about this FSB officer, that he was a Ukrainian military man, and asked him: do you not know what is wrong with so-and-so?

And he asked: tell me the call sign, tell me which brigade.

That's how I collected information." 

"Before the start of the war, there were 4 IPSO (information and psychological operation) centers in Ukraine as part of the Special Operations Forces.

This is official open information.

Do you know how many of them were counted in Russia?

About 250, - the information security expert states the facts.

- They separately had IPSO centers that worked with individual regions of Crimea, in individual regions of Ukraine, in individual cities of Ukraine.

They studied social behavior, social psychology of these regions." 

Ivan Hnatyshak is convinced that he did manage to expose the werewolf who pretended to be a Ukrainian military officer: "100% this is an account of a Facebook user.

He wrote to me in private.

The first message that a Facebook user wrote was "I am not a Facebook user".

A large number of bots came to me.

Sometimes they texted me in the middle of the night.

These are people who do it around the clock." 

"Such fakers are dealt with during wartime by relevant services, in particular, the Security Service of Ukraine and the Cyber ​​Police," explains Mykhailo Makaruk. 

"There is such a program as "Mriya".

Now the cyber police are launching bots, where you can send a link about a suspicious resource that you visited, and they will check this information," notes Iryna Pryanishnikova.

When the werewolf was exposed, his Ukrainian followers were either in shock or in despair. 

"People were very surprised because they believed him," says Ivan Hnatyshak.

- In the comments they wrote to me: "Horror, I also believed and sent my husband to the front line, asking if all this was really true."

Nikita Kit is a former player of the Zaporozhye KVK team.

One day he experienced a wave of hate from friends and fans.

The news spread on social networks that the Ukrainian comedian allegedly defected to the enemy and tried to leave for Russia. 

"During the war, critical thinking sometimes turns off.

You begin to perceive information a little differently.

And this happened to both my good friend and my family.

I woke up in the morning to a message from my friend: "What are you, ahu***?".

I open his message and see that in some Russian lousy Telegram-public they posted a photo of a guy who looks a lot like me." 

Here is the same post that frightened all the boy's entourage: "I remembered my family when the prospect of the mobilization of the Armed Forces was looming, and decided to hang around, came to the new Russian territories."

The guy in the video was so similar that even his family believed in the fake.

"A few hours later, my mother writes to me: "Nikita, where are you, what are you doing, Separ?", Nikita recalls.

- I tell my mother the same thing - it's not me, watch the video with sound." 

The bad fakers forgot to cut out the beginning of the video, where the hero of the video has a completely different last name and first name: "In the first three seconds, it is clear that, fortunately, it is not me, but a certain Karpenko Kirill Vladimirovych."

If the family had believed this fake, then probably my mother would have rejected me as a son, and I would have had almost no friends left.

We had to get used to it both during the full-scale invasion, and during these 8 years, and during the 20 years when the Rashka pumped us with propaganda." 

"Every year, Russia allocates about 36 billion dollars for conducting active propaganda work.

This is against the background of the colossal experience of the KDB, FSB and the Third Reich, as all the archives moved to Moscow at the time.

And this organization probably studied propaganda the best in the history of mankind," Mykhailo Makaruk is convinced. 

But how to distinguish an information dump from the truth? 

"There is a rule of three resources," explains Iryna Pryanishnikova, spokeswoman for the Kyiv region police.

- If you have received any information and want to verify it, have three more sources to confirm this information.

If three sources tell you that this information is true, then it really is true.

It is desirable that each of these resources is authoritative." 

Today, the onslaught of fakes is resisted by Ukrainian cyber troops.

They not only neutralize enemy bot farms, but also help the Armed Forces bring our victory closer.

"They constantly obtain the information we need.

About the state of the troops, their supply, armament, their movement, etc.

And transformers burn quite often in the Russian Federation, as our cyber specialists managed to penetrate the systems and remotely disable them," says Mykhailo Makaruk.

Ivan and Nikita, who had their own experience of contact with Russian information aggression, emphasize that it is worth trusting only official information.

And if propaganda tries to smear your honest name, inform the relevant security authorities, do not worry about these dirty attacks and live on.