NewsFront (sometimes written News Front) is a website based in Russian occupied Crimea, described by the United States Department of the Treasury as "a Crimea-based disinformation and propaganda outlet...particularly focused on supporting Russia-backed forces in Ukraine.

[8][9] NewsFront was established in March 2014 when, during the Russian invasion of Crimea, Knyrik with a group of masked gunmen broke into the headquarters of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism and took over its resources.

[12] In 2018, Knyrik told an interviewer that his goal was "an alternative source of information for people in Europe and the U.S." to counteract "this bullshit published by the mainstream media in the West.

[15][1][16] In 2017, German newspaper Die Zeit alleged that NewsFront had tried to influence elections in both Germany and France by promoting false claims against Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.

[18] In 2019, EU vs Disinformation stated that NewsFront focuses its German-language version on anti-immigration German nationalism in order to attract a discontented German-speaking audience to the pro-Kremlin viewpoints of news from RT and Sputnik.

[21] In 2021, a State Department official speaking on the basis of classified information told The Wall Street Journal that NewsFront "is guided by the FSB," Russia's successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB.

[26] According to the German Marshall Fund, the new violations involved fake profiles that helped evade the bans by posting links to mirror sites, where innocuous URLs showed content identical to that in NewsFront.