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How NAFO let a Putin propagandist face the open knife

A Brit spreads Russian propaganda from occupied territories. He then films the devastating Ukrainian missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet command. With unforeseen consequences.
Daniel Schurter

There once was a man who called himself “Johnny Miller” and claimed to be a serious “journalist.” In fact, the Briton is a Putin propagandist who, among other things, downplays Russian war crimes and denigrates Ukraine and the West on the online platform X.

Johnny works for the Iranian foreign state television called “Press-TV”, which is banned in Europe. As is known, the mullahs’ regime is an important partner for Putin. It supplies the Russians with, among other things, the Shahed killer drone, which is used to terrorize the Ukrainian civilian population. And it allows Russian propaganda to spread one-on-one.

What Johnny didn’t expect on that fateful September 22 in Sevastopol was NAFO.

The Ukrainian attack

Then Johnny was in the wrong place at the wrong time: on the Russian-occupied Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea, in the city of Sevastopol. On the same day, Ukraine carried out a devastating missile attack on the orders of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. As it turned out, dozens of senior officers were killed in the targeted bombings.

In a video published on the online platform

The troll attack

The Internet collective NAFO sees itself as a pro-Ukrainian defense alliance on the Internet. The volunteers have made a name for themselves with brutal troll attacks and have become the terror of Western Putin supporters. And of course the “Fellas”, as the NAFO members call themselves, wanted to take advantage of this special opportunity…

Another X user thanked Johnny.

“There are no ex-British people. And Johnny is an excellent example of someone who worked undercover for a long time in the occupied territories of Ukraine.

Today Johnny helped the British Storm Shadow [Rakete] to target Crimea to destroy the occupying forces’ headquarters!

Thank you Johnny, Ukraine will never forget your achievement!”

Another NAFO member noted that they pray that the Russian secret service, the FSB, does not find Johnny and deprive him of his passport and the ability to travel back to the West, where he will receive “a hero’s welcome.”

And then there were the ironic NAFO posts, which referred to the very good secret service training that Johnny had received with the British secret service MI6 or the American CIA. This was an allusion to the suspicion that Putin propagandists have already expressed on several occasions that the Internet collective is secretly financed by the secret services.

At the diving station

After Johnny reported on the Sevastopol rocket attack in several eyewitness videos and provoked a lot of backlash with his posts, he apparently tried to smooth things over. Without success.

Then there was a noticeable silence around the Putin propagandist. His corresponding posts on X and Telegram disappeared and he published nothing more.

However, it was NAFO that did not remain silent.

“Our Johnny certainly seems to be in trouble and may have been working for one of our services to help with targeting. It appears that Russia has made him delete all coverage of the attack, both on Twitter and Telegram.”

And the obituaries were already loud.

“He deleted his live video of the attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, in which he also showed the locations of Russian air defenses.

Let us take a moment to thank him for his noble sacrifice. He was a valuable part of Ukrainian intelligence.”

Another NAFO member tweeted:

“Sadly, I fear we have lost our most effective double agent. Apparently he has forgotten that the freedom of the press of Western journalists does not apply in the Russian-occupied territories. Don’t worry, Johnny. We will (sooner or later) negotiate a prisoner exchange.”

Of course, it cannot be assumed that the Russian secret services fell for NAFO and actually took Johnny out of circulation because they thought he was a Ukrainian double agent.

What is certain, however, is that there could soon be new film material for Putin propagandists in occupied Crimea. The Ukrainian partisans have already identified new, high-value targets for rocket attacks. Such as a fuel depot used by the military.

Sources

  • russiavsworld.org: Faces of Russian Propaganda: Johnny Miller
  • correction.org: Alina Lipp: How a 28-year-old became a mouthpiece for Russian propaganda
  • t.me: Johnny Miller’s Telegram channel
  • twitter.com: Profile of Johnny Miller

Daniel Schurter

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