The government of Ukraine recently appointed a top diplomat whose primary goal is to counter Russian disinformation about the war reaching audiences in Latin America, Ambassador Ruslan Spirin told The Miami Herald and el Nuevo Herald in an exclusive interview.
Spirin, who was appointed special envoy for Latin America and the Caribbean in August, urged the region’s governments and citizens to seek “alternative” information to contrast the content published by Russian outlets RT and Sputnik, whose Spanish language platforms have millions of viewers in Latin America and have been the source of political concerns in the U.S.
“They are distributing disinformation and propaganda. They are experts, they know how to manipulate their people and they are releasing that same information in six languages, spending millions of dollars to transmit an image that is not right,” said the special envoy in a video call from Kyiv on Wednesday.
