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INFORMATION WARFARE AGAINST UKRAINE: SECURITY CHALLENGES FOR THE EUROPEAN UNION
Abstract
After Revolution of Dignity and collapse of V.Yanukovych regime in Ukraine Russian Federation has started the open aggression against it. It received different titles but almost all political players in Europe and North America felt the devastating consequences of the information warfare for Ukraine. The information warfare waged by Russian Federation is provided at the strategic, operational and tactical levels and includes different mechanisms of influence on opposite side.
Key words: information warfare, propaganda, aggression, security, Ukraine, European Union.
This chapter is aimed at highlighting the analysis of pseudo-peaceful Russian propaganda relating to the hybrid Russian-Ukrainian war in Donbas. The data included into this research was taken from the program We Need to Talk! (Rus.: “Nado pohovorit!”) broadcasted on the television channel Russia-1 in 2019. This program was chosen due to the way it represents what was called “friendly” and “peaceful” discourse, as portrayed in the Russian media.KeywordsPropagandaPseudo-peaceful discourseMediaNostalgiaHistorical myth
Swedish Defence University researcher Margarita Levin Jaitner highlights current Russian Information Warfare (IW) theory in Chapter 10. She contends that Moscow has an inherent belief in the power of information
control to advance its political and military goals. In Russian doctrine, cyber security is subordinate to information security, and cyberspace is only one part of the ‘information space’. National security planners are concerned with both ‘technical’ and ‘cognitive’ attacks, and recognise that achieving information superiority involves everything from propaganda to hacking to kinetic military operations. Margarita Jaitner argues that the annexation
of Crimea was a textbook case in information superiority.
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