They immediately seized the narrative by leveraging social media to showcase the atrocities committed by Russia while also uniting their population’s will to fight behind myths such as the Ghost of Kyiv, a fighter pilot who shot down six Russian aircraft during the opening days of the war, and the legend of Snake Island, a unit that was destroyed after telling the Russians to “go f**k yourself.” Although many of the stories have been proven to be significantly embellished, the effects were still achieved—they overcame Russia’s extensive propaganda, gained the moral high ground, and proved to
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