{"id":125013,"date":"2024-01-04T12:29:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evocation.info\/?p=125013"},"modified":"2024-01-04T12:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T12:30:19","slug":"deanon-of-psychos-how-the-russian-ipso-works-and-who-is-behind-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evocation.info\/en\/deanon-of-psychos-how-the-russian-ipso-works-and-who-is-behind-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Deanon of “psychos”. How the Russian IPSO works and who is behind it"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “evocation.info” team received documents from the headquarters of the occupation troops “Dnipro” from the hacktivist group “Kiber Sprotyv”. The IW task force has been spotlighted in them. We found every officer on its roster and more.<\/b><\/h4>\n

A favorite technique of Russian propagandists is to brand any information inconvenient to them as IPSO. They attribute those who publish and disseminate such facts to some mythical “CIPSO” (centers of information-psychological operations).<\/span><\/p>\n

What’s funny is that in this case, the Rashists are talking about a system that actually exists, but in Russia itself. There is a whole network of PSO units there, the so-called “psychos” (<\/span>here for more details<\/span><\/a>). In simplistic terms, their main task is to conduct psychological operations against the enemy, swaying it from within, and to influence how other countries perceive what is happening. <\/span><\/p>\n

In reality, they often fool their own citizens. In fact, the myth about the Nazis who have taken over “brotherly Ukraine” and are destroying the “peaceful people of Donbas” is precisely their handiwork. Thanks to it and the public opinion distorted for 8 years, the Russian dictator “legitimized” the open invasion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Rashists are actively using information operations during the “full-scale operation” as well, both in social networks and media, and on the battlefield. This is handled by a number of entities, not always Army. For the purposes of this material, we focus on military units – IW (information warfare).<\/span><\/p>\n

Using one IW task force as an example, we describe how the Russian IPSO works online and “on the ground”. And of course, we disclose the personnel and the grid of controlled media resources. Special thanks to Major Dmitry Chusovitin for his help in deanon of his colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n

Colonel Usoshin’s IW group<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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The evocation.info team contacted the disclosed IW officers before publishing the article. They were offered a choice: to cooperate with the Ukrainian Defense Forces or to appear in our database with further transfer of the collected data to the international investigation.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

We intentionally only publish information on those who responded with a waiver. If the “gentleman’s agreement” is not honored, the names and files of the others will also be made public. At this stage we deliberately do not name all the channels that are included in the IW grid and their owners – we are preparing a separate “surprise” for them.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Let’s start with the documents that came into the possession of the “evocation.info” team. The IW task force (composite) appears there. Such groups are established within troop groupings. They may include officers from different units for specific tasks. Their primary functions are: <\/span><\/p>\n