MOSCOW, January 8. /TASS/. Almost 70,000 websites containing false reports discrediting the actions of the Russian Armed Forces and Russia’s bodies of authority were blocked in 2023, the press service of the Russian Prosecutor-General's Office told TASS.

"Prosecutors thwart the spread of illegal information amid an unprecedented anti-Russia information campaign, with major foreign websites, information agencies and other media outlets involved," the press service said.

"The main goal of unfriendly states and their propaganda pundits is still to discredit the actions of the Russian Armed Forces in the special military operation and the country’s authorities on protecting the interests of citizens, maintaining global peace and security," the Prosecutor-General's Office added. Combatting this, the Prosecutor-General's Office submitted 555 requests to block false reports to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media (Roskomnadzor) in 2023. "More than 69,000 websites were deleted or blocked," the press service noted.

In 2022, those figures were higher as prosecutors submitted 853 requests to block such false reports to the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media, with 128,000 websites deleted. "Consequently, a decrease in the scale of disinformation being spread is evident," the Prosecutor-General's Office stressed.