In an attempt to discredit Ukraine, a journalist from Iceland, Haukur Hauksson, spread Kremlin fakes about "US biolaboratories" and "Nazis".
What is known about the journalist Haukson
According to the Centre of Countering Disinformation (CCD), Haukur Haukson has lived in Moscow since 1990, was educated in the Russian Federation, and still presents as an "Icelandic journalist". He was awarded the "For friendship and cooperation between Russia and Iceland" medal.
After the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, he joined the pool of journalists that the Russian Federation uses to create the illusion of support for its actions abroad. Hauksson declares alleged repression against journalists in Europe who cover events in unison with Russian propaganda.
In addition, after the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Kyiv region, Haukson called the shocking reports about the atrocities of the occupiers in Buch "the theater of the dead" and "a well-thought-out fake."
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 "hand of the United States" in the actions of the Ukrainian government.
