Threats to Hungarian community posed as police: Security Service exposes Russian operation in Zakarpattia

The Security Service of Ukraine has said that Russian secret services threatened the Hungarian community in Zakarpattia Oblast using spoofed Ukrainian phone numbers and posing as activists and law enforcement officers.

Source: Security Service of Ukraine

Quote: "The Security Service of Ukraine has exposed a large-scale Russian disinformation operation targeting the Hungarian community in Zakarpattia.

The Security Service of Ukraine has uncovered a new disinformation and psychological operation by Russian secret services aimed at destabilising the situation in Zakarpattia Oblast and increasing tensions between Ukraine and Hungary."

Details: The Security Service reported that the Russians had spoofed phone numbers via IP telephony to carry out the operation. Using numbers that appeared to be Ukrainian, they made anonymous threatening calls to representatives of the Hungarian national community.

The Service explained during such calls, the unknown individuals introduced themselves as members of "national-patriotic groups" or even as law enforcement officers and demanded that people leave the territory of Ukraine, threatening them with physical violence.

Law enforcement agencies established that the calls were made from Russian territory.

The Security Service said it is currently working to block the information operation and urged citizens not to respond to such provocations and to report them to the authorities.

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