The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany and the chancellor Friedrich Merz. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Merz is allegedly preparing to announce his resignation on August 10

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative alleging that the wife of a presidential candidate Raphaël Glucksmann attempted to bribe media outlets to promote a positive image of her husband and his electoral campaign

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Estonia and Lithuania for the first time. The campaign promotes a false narrative alleging the involvement of the Lithuanian and Estonian presidents in the Jeffrey Epstein's human trafficking network

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany and Friedrich Merz. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Merz accepted €3 million bribe from France for the German team to deliberately lose to Paraguay and also placed a €1 million bet on the match

Another recent Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Olena Zelenska was captured in Paris wearing a pendant which was earlier stolen from a French museum in July

One of the recent Storm-1516 disinformation campaigns is targeting France. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the French presidential candidate Edouard Philippe suffers from dementia

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Anastasia Berezovska, suspected to be behind the bombing in Monaco and later found dead in Ukraine, was a Ukrainian Security Service officer linked to Zelenskyy

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that 43 people were allegedly tortured to death following the conflict between the military recruitment officers and the local citizens in Lviv.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France. The campaign promotes a fake video with the alleged threats from Hezbollah to attack Paris on July 14th for supporting the "Zionist regime".

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign targets Ukraine and Poland. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Zelenskyy signed an order to authorise the construction of "Heroes of UPA" memorial complex in Lutsk with funds received from EU.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Armenia. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Iran is threatening to destroy the Armenian Firebird data center for providing data for US attacks against Iran following the alleged ceasefire violation by the US.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Volodymyr Zelenskyy's parents were allegedly detained by anti-corruption authority NABU in relation to "tax evasion" and were released after a call from Kyrylo Budanov

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation is targeting Armenia and Firebird AI data center once again. The campaign promotes a false narrative that the Armenian power grid is too unreliable for the data center.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation is targeting Ukraine and US. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Ukraine has been secretly supporting Trump's opponents from a Democratic party in Congress using funds allocated to Ukraine during the Biden administration.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Germany and the German chancellor Friedrich Merz. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Merz booked a private session with an OnlyFans model and afterwards requested a chargeback for it.

The video associated wit the campaign is using the branding of American tech news outlet "Tech Crunch" and links to a fake copycat website tech-crunch[.]org . The video also includes a likely fabricated comment from a civil engineering academic Armen Der Kiureghian.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Armenia. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Firebird AI data center located in Kotayk province is at risk due to an alleged earthquake risk.

The latest Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative about an alleged sharp rise of STI's in the Ukrainian army linked to "male rape".

Shortly after our report on "Stalin's Falcons" promotion through the Storm-1516 influencer network, they decided to promote yet another "Stalin's Falcons" ad. "Stalin's Falcon" is a PR brand of Alabuga facility, which is responsible for production of Russian "Geran" dones.

While Yudin is happy to openly speak about his work with Alabuga, he also enjoys travelling to the United States, as his most recent visits were in January this year and during the summer in 2025, which was reported first by RFE/RL

The brand appears to be associated with an unsanctioned marketing firm owned by Vadim Yudin, who is also not sanctioned

The domain name "сталинские-соколы[.]su" translates as "Stalin's Falcons" and the brand serves as a PR facade for Alabuga Economic Zone, which is responsible for "Geran" drone production. Under the same brand, they are also selling merchandise such as toy RC drones.

In the recent months, our team identified several coordinated campaigns in the Storm-1516 influencer network, which were promoting "сталинские-соколы[.]su" website. The videos are essentially advertisements for the Russian "Geran" drones

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting U.S. and Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative that Cole Allen, who was charged for attempt to assassinate Donald Trump in April, visited the Ukrainian embassy multiple times before the assassination attempt.

Another recent Storm-1516/R-FBI disinformation campaign is targeting Ukraine. The campaign promotes a false narrative with multiple claims of the alleged ill treatment of female soldiers in the Ukrainian armed forces.

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting Armenia and promotes a false narrative that ballots with "wrong" votes are being destroyed at one of the polling stations in Yerevan

The campaign is also promoted via facebook ads with links to arevmedia[.]am and armenianjournal[.]am through "Armenia Live" facebook profile

The latest Storm-1516 disinformation campaign is targeting France and promotes a false narrative that Kylian Mbappé left PSG football club due to the harassment by Emmanuel Macron

Watch out for Rybar covert ops

Another likely Storm-1516 disinformation campaign promotes a fabricated video of Nikol Pashinyan hitting a child