Russian invasion unleashes another war: Without THIS, Ukraine would have lost to Moscow according to strategists – Topky.sk

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, some Ukrainian officials have been spreading unverified stories, embellished stories or information that later turned out to be untrue. However, according to the NYT, the dubious claims of Ukrainian officials are incomparable with the lies spread by the Kremlin. Shortly before the attack on Ukraine, Moscow claimed to be defending itself against the Ukrainian aggression and wanted to free its western neighbor from the fascists and neo-Nazis. Since the beginning of the invasion, the Kremlin has been making unsubstantiated claims that Ukrainians are shelling hospitals and killing civilians, the NYT said.

Ukrainian Internet propaganda mainly concerns heroes and martyrs who resist Russian aggression in embellished or fabricated stories. According to computer scientist Laura Edelson, this is a fairly common form of propaganda. “They tell stories that support their narratives. Sometimes they get false information.” added Edelson, who studies disinformation at New York University.

Without stories of heroism, Kiev would have lost the war

Stories about the heroism of Ukrainians or the brutality of the Russians are a key part of Kiev’s military strategy, experts say. The aim of the Ukrainian government is to maintain the fighting morale of its forces at a high level, as well as to maintain the support of the international community. Without such stories, Ukraine would lose the war with Russia, says strategist Peter W. Singer of the New America think tank. “It would not only lose the information war, but also the conventional war,” said Singer.

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In previous wars, fighters had tried to sabotage the enemy’s communications channels to prevent the spread of war propaganda, destroying physical communications infrastructure such as telegraph cables, the NYT said. However, there are far fewer such physical cables in the Internet age, so in addition to destroying communications towers and disrupting Internet access, armies rely on flooding the online space with huge amounts of news to drown out competitive propaganda, the NYT explains.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced early Thursday morning that the Russian army had launched a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Russia’s Federal Telecommunications, Information Technology and Mass Media Oversight Service (Roskomnadzor) subsequently ordered the Russian media to remove reports that described Russia’s military operation in Ukraine as an “attack, invasion or declaration of war”, otherwise they were in danger. blockage and fine.