reporter: the ukrainians have obviously got to carry out these kind of drills because there could be more bomb scares but this is doing nothing obviously to calm already pretty jittery nerves in the city. in the offices of the president his advisor told me a russian invasion isn t imminent but russian agents are inside the country and creating division and fear. [ speaking foreign language ] from boris johnson. reporter: across town the
the far right. that they are building bioweapon s and releasing them throughout the world to create the coronavirus. now, all of that stuff, and made a lot of sense. the problem is that russians didn t think of this conspiracy theory before this invasion. before the invasion, didn t the american far-right sees talk about it at all. this why by allows confused conspiracy. until the 24th, the day they invaded ukraine. they weren t really taking into this denazification narrative, so they turned on the veteran putin on the far-right. but this bioweapons conspiracy switched everything around. in the last week, they have turned back to being effectively pro vladimir putin. and then, russian propaganda took that american propaganda that was created in these far-right spaces and made it their own. let s talk about it reminds us of the theories that covid-19 was deliberately started in a lab and spread out. does this start and live in those kinds of places?
their russian occupiers. the same thing is happening, about 150 miles to the east, where russian forces are occupying the city of militapol. last week, ukrainian officials say that that city s mayor was kidnapped by occupying russian forces. but over the weekend, hundreds of protesters showed up in the streets of militapol to demand the mayor s release. every day, we are seeing ordinary ukrainian citizens stand up against this invasion, as ukraine s president and the country s political leaders calling western leaders and western countries to do more. already, the united states and european nations are supplying lethal weapons to ukraine and undertaking an unprecedented campaign of economic boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against the russian government.
yeah, that account was an anti-vax account. that s the remaining legacy of the anti-vax spaces on the internet. they are conforming to be part of the broader global far-right to push these conspiracy theories against the bidens, against anthony fauci, i guess what they call the medical establishment all throughout the world. the global far-right has coalesced around that. and it works for russia, to. in fact, the russian news agency, didn t pose anything about biological weapons attacks that were created in ukraine in the run-up, even one month before the invasion in ukraine. but on thursday and friday, they posted 24 separate articles about what they call biological weapons in ukraine. this has become their pretext for this war, and it stemmed from the american anti vax
that you stand against that destruction, if you dare to take to the streets and protest the invasion, you will be put in prison. it has been reported that nearly 15,000 people have been arrested in russia since february 24th with a mere crying of protesting. just this weekend, this person was arrested for holding up a blank protest sign. over 800 people were arrested just this weekend. now some people from across the globe are trying to get around that information chokehold to get a message up to the people of russia to deliver them the truth. they are getting awfully creative. an online campaign to get information to russia led people to flood google and trip adviser reviews of restaurants in russia. one person reviewed a russian restaurant in moscow saying quote, your government is lying to you about the conflict in ukraine. it is not a rescue operation. there are no nazis there. in norway, a computer expert launched a website that has led thousands of people to volunteer their time