PARANOID Putin’s online bots are shamefully spewing out fake celebrity quotes blasting the West in an attempt to defend the war in Ukraine.
Stars like Sir Elton John, Lionel Messi and Jennifer Aniston have all been pictured with a chilling pro-Russian quote in a disastrous attempt to sway the public opinion on the conflict.
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Western social media users are the target of the unbelievable social media tirade with posts in English, French, German and Polish plaguing people’s feeds in recent hours.
The quotes are all fake and emerged from known Kremlin disinformation bots spreading lies on X.
Elton John is fraudulently quoted saying: “We fell into the Ukrainian trap. Now the EU is collapsing.”
Jennifer Aniston is also pictured with the words: “We are impoverished, it’s time to forget about Ukraine.”
The bot blitz was done through disinformation network Dvoynyk who published 50 fake celebrity quotes with images on X.
They also retweeted more than 120,000 of their own fake posts.
Another dubious quote attributed to Scarlett Johansson said: “All countries have begun to think about themselves, and the EU is falling apart.”
Movie star Angelina Jolie was also falsely accused of blasting the European parliament as “corrupt” in a hoax tweet.
The “massive campaign” was revealed by Russian independent news outlet Agentsvo as part of Putin’s attempted play to win the propaganda war.
The cringe-worthy celebrity quotes have been viewed over half a million times since Friday, say The Kyiv Independent, citing the Bot Blocker project.
Six similar propaganda operations based on bot campaigns have also occurred within the past six months, the project announced.
Russian analyst Dr Ian Garner took to X saying it was “astonishing” how “obviously s***” the content of the Kremlin bot posts was.
He added: “All that money and they can’t even hire any clever writers.”
The propaganda push comes days after Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called for peace talks with Russia.
His comments followed from a two-day peace conference in Switzerland, which Russia were not invited to.
The conference saw more than 80 countries sign a document calling for “territorial integrity” of Ukraine to end the war.
After the conference Mr Zelensky said: “Russia can start negotiations tomorrow if they pullout of our territories.”
The mood to end the war aligns with some Russian soldiers as troops were seen surrendering when their trenches were overrun in Ukraine.
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