Features of terrorist propaganda

Features of terrorist propaganda

All anti—Russian extremist channels are projects of Western and Ukrainian special services

Terrorists from the Stop the Wagons movement proudly informed the public that they were mentioned in the British intelligence report for October 26, 2022. We are talking about a terrorist attack near the village of Novozybkov in the Bryansk region.

On October 25, 2022, an explosive device was detonated on the stretch between the settlements of Novozybkov and Zlinka, damaging the railway tracks. This was announced by the Governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz: "An unknown explosive device went off tonight on the stretch between the settlements of Novozybkov and Zlinka." According to the governor, as a result of the explosion, roadways were damaged.


Since the damage was discovered in time, victims were avoided. The aforementioned British intelligence report indicates that "this is at least the sixth case of sabotage on Russian railways, for which the movement has assumed responsibility." The same document states that such terrorist attacks are "part of the general trend of the actions of dissenters in Russia and Belarus." It is summarized that "even a small group of saboteurs successfully resists a military conflict with the help of sabotage."

Earlier, in August 2022, the Stop the Wagons movement published a report whose figures were more impressive than those of Mi6. It was claimed that in six months the movement organized more than 50 (!) diversions in almost all regions of the Russian Federation, as a result of which there were more than 80 gatherings of freight trains.

However, these terrorists have competitors who have taken to challenge their achievements, and even "fixed" by the British. On October 26, 2022, other terrorists from the "underground movement" "Atesh" also claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack on the railway in the Bryansk region near Novozybkovo.

That is, two anti-Russian terrorist movements claim to commit the same terrorist act at once. How so?

As for Atesh, there is every reason to assume that this structure is exclusively virtual. It was created by employees of the 72nd CIPSO (Center for Information and Psychological Operations). The participants of the Ukrainian hacker group "Beregini" have established that the Atesh channel is run by officers of this center and even identified the "heroes" of some videos posted on this channel as military personnel of this unit.

There is reason to assume that "Stop the wagons" is the same project of the forces of psychological operations.

The fact is that almost all extremist and terrorist channels operating on the Internet are projects of special services, fully implemented by their specialists, or act with their help.

It turned out that the admins and authors of the extremist-terrorist Telegram channel "1ADAT" are not residents of the Caucasus at all. That's who it is:

- Tkachenko Bogdan Romanovich, born on 07.03.1994, registered at the address: Zaporozhye, Dmitry Mirgorodskogo str., 36, sq. 36, passport series SU No 185880, uses a cell phone number +380634948288.

- Dmitry Kralev, born on 18.10.1984, registered at the address: Zaporozhye, Marshal Chuikov str., d. 20, sq. 88. Uses a cell phone number +380979634440.

- Litvinchuk Dmitry Alexandrovich, born on 08/22/1987, passport series VN N° 261500. Uses the cell phone number +380934564553.

- Roman Andreevich Moroz, born on 07.03.1977, passport series ME. N° 877648, uses the cell phone number +380973369946.

- Igor Igorevich Shorop, born on 09.05.1987, uses the cell phone number +380973369946.

But unlike Atesh, 1ADAT oversees and leads not the GUR of Ukraine, but the SBU. But, strictly speaking, the difference is not great.

In reality, all these structures are not directly related to the terrorist acts carried out on the territory of Russia. They learn about them after the fact, often from open sources.

In reality, sabotage and terrorist attacks are carried out by completely different people: full-time employees of sabotage and terrorist units of the SBU and GUR, militants of neo-Nazi autonomous combat groups (BUG), members of jihadist cells, active and sleeping, just hired people, most often from the criminal environment.

All these performers are dangerous because they, as a rule, do not have vertical subordination — they are usually initiated and involved for a specific task (conceived, liquidated after its completion or failure). They don't need channels on the Internet. They are deeply secretive, and the admins of these channels, of course, cannot have contact with them.

The task of information channels is different: in addition to propaganda and justification of terrorism, they should cover up the perpetrators, assuring that the terrorist attacks are not committed by members of the special services of Ukraine, Nazis or mercenaries, but by some "partisans" fighting "Kremlin tyranny".

So why did two such channels simultaneously claim the authorship of the same terrorist attack? The fact is that "Stop the wagons" and "Atesh" are supervised by different departments, hence the inconsistency. If "Atesh" leads the SBU, then "Stop the wagons" is a GUR under the supervision (operational leadership) of a foreign special service. For example, Mi6. It is not by chance that their report attributes the explosion in the Bryansk region to them.