Russian bots spread panic online regarding blackout 

He said this on Espreso TV. 

Andrii Shapovalov commented on the information campaigns of the enemy, which are aimed at undermining the resilience of Ukrainians.

“We see the enemy's efforts to destabilize the situation inside Ukraine, so that Ukrainians go out with protests, because there is light in the neighboring house, and you are in darkness, and the government is to blame for this. This is such a mass information and psychological operation, which they cynically and openly swing. In addition, in all their social network services, such as VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, they publish where to get pictures and text materials for the distribution of such information dumps in order to bring Ukrainians to the streets against the authorities. They very strongly grasped the Odesa case, which was there, but Ukrainians are very careful about such campaigns and check information many times, so these methods do not work in Ukraine,” the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council said. 

Andrii Shapovalov noted that all Russian models of influence, which the enemy wanted to spread in Ukraine, do not work at all, and this enrages Russia.

“The enemy works not only in classic social networks, but also in groups of WhatsApp and Viber messengers, for example, in the group of entrance № 7 on Franka Street, similar sentiments are also published. By the way, even before the Russian Federation's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, there was a huge campaign on the creation of all kinds of groups in messengers, and people even forgot that they once joined them. Then in February it was explained to Ukrainians not to add unknown people to their chats. Now this wave has subsided a little, and Ukrainians' alertness to this issue has also subsided, so the Russians have again started looking for where they can break at least some information hole,” Shapovalov noted.