Dutch blogger Mirjam Mahmoud spreads Kremlin's narratives against Ukraine: details

Center for Countering Disinformation of Ukraine

Serhii Palya

The Dutch blogger Miriam Mahmud actively conducts information activities in the interests of Russia and has already come into the field of view of the Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD).

What is known about blogger Mahmoud?

The CCD reports that Miriam Mahmoud is the daughter of the famous Dutch journalist Sonia van den Ende.

With her mother, Miriam visited the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) of Ukraine as an "international observer" at the pseudo-elections and "referendum" organised by Moscow.

Women willingly gave comments to Russian propagandists. In particular, in Luhansk, after the "referendum", they announced that they would not be able to return to the Netherlands due to alleged criminal prosecution for participating in Russian propaganda activities.

Miriam does not carry out independent propaganda activities. The purpose of its presence in the lists of foreigners who visit the TOT is to create the illusion of support for the Russian Federation's actions abroad, — the CCD notes.

Russia launched information operation "Perun"

As part of this operation, the Russian Federation plans to involve foreign journalists, media persons and bloggers to justify aggression against Ukraine and cover the situation around Ukraine from positions favourable to the Kremlin.

Earlier, CCD reported on the American journalist Fiorella Isabel. Propaganda media call her an American journalist, but she does not hide that she works for the RT channel.

In social networks, Isabel covers events in the world, in particular in Ukraine and the Middle East, in the light of Kremlin propaganda.

She became a "star" of the Russian propaganda media in 2023 when she started her activities at TOT. At the same time, she spread Kremlin propaganda narratives about the war as "the struggle of the Russian Federation against world evil".” She promoted the thesis about the "US hand" in the actions of the Ukrainian government.