Top PsyOps of the Week (May 11 – May 17, 2026): Why Did Mendel Target the Kharkiv Region? An Esoteric Solitaire and a Spy in the Trunk

Cartoon by Olexandr Sydorenko.

An FSB analyst sits at Lubyanka, racking his brains over super-secret disinformation to confuse Ukrainians. Then he looks at his own reports on the state of the Russian budget and the panic among hooray-patriots — and realizes that the most terrifying PsyOp for the Kremlin is just the naked, unretouched... truth.