Ukraine’s intelligence service has established that only 53 percent of the men who are listed as volunteers from Chechnya are in fact ethnic Chechens. The remainder are overwhelmingly ethnic Russians. Related: Inter-ethnic animosity...
Since the onset of the February invasion, both the West and the Kremlin were then taken aback by Ukraine’s successes, not only on the battlefield. In particular, information warfare has long been considered Moscow’s turf. And...
In May 2022, three committees of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada appealed to national parliaments in EU and NATO member states as well as major international institutions to sanction Russian propaganda as part of the Russian military machine....
“Russia says it hit 17 Ukrainian facilities, and killed more than 200 troops.” “Russia says Ukraine shells its own civilians; some evacuations in Mariupol.” “Lavrov says sanctions being discussed with...
There is a classic Soviet joke which ever more frequently comes to mind given Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and his obsession with ensuring that the only version of reality Russians hear about is the one he prefers, a joke that...
1. Is Azov regiment / brigade /battalion “neo-Nazi”? I’m used to answering questions about the Azov Regiment from foreign journalists from various countries, from India to Brazil, almost every day. Now, against the...
We, Ukrainian politicians of different ideological views, industrialists, and businessmen, would like to address the CNN journalists and editors. We are grateful to you for your comprehensive and non-biased coverage of the war in Ukraine....
Russian television which remains the main mobilizing force in that country nonetheless has changed fundamentally since Vladimir Putin began his broader invasion of Ukraine: programs are longer, hysterical commentaries more frequent and...
Although it is Russia that has militarily occupied the Crimea, waged a deadly war in the Donbas, and amassed well over 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s border, President Putin and his propaganda machine assert that the United States,...
Ukraine remains Russian propaganda’s top target Roughly one-third of all the recorded cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation collected by EUvsDisinfo this year targeted Ukraine. Amid the continuous escalation of Russia’s military...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
