Explainer: what can the Red Cross do and not do in Ukraine?
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been victim of several online disinformation campaigns since the beginning of the war in Ukraine that are putting at risk its staff and those it seeks to help.
Over the last few weeks, the ICRC saysExternal link it has been the victim of “deliberate, targeted attacks” that use misinformation and disinformation to discredit its action.
These attacks include claims that the ICRC is participating in forced evacuations of Ukrainian refugees to Russia and negotiating the opening of a refugee camp in southern Russia.
The Geneva-based humanitarian organisation does not say who is behind the attacks but insists that false information was being spread mostly on social media.
“It’s not the first time that we see the devastating effects of misinformation on social media. But in this case, the scale is totally unprecedented. [It is] therefore very worrying to see the ICRC being instrumentalised in this way,” ICRC Director-General Robert Mardini told Swiss public television, RTS.
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