Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine (HUR) released the behind-the-scenes video showing how a fabricated drone strike convinced Russian channels that Denis Kapustin had been killed. The deception worked. Russian sources accepted the footage as genuine, triggering a reported $500,000 payout tied to his supposed death. This was not propaganda theater—it was an information operation executed with precision, exploiting Russian confirmation bias and internal reward systems. In modern warfare,