The War in Ukraine

Part III: Information Campaign: Ukraine vs. Russia

6 Ukrainian Information Resistance

Steve Sin

Rhyner Washburn

6.1 Introduction

Discussions about information operations, especially in the context of foreign malign influence operations—whether conducted during peace or war—are often only framed from the perspective of ‘what is the adversary doing to us?’ It is quite rare to see a discussion on information operations from the perspective of ‘what are we doing to counter the adversary’s information operations?’, especially when one considers ‘proactive’ actions being taken. An investigation of available scholarly literature on state actor-conducted malign influence operations reveals they are largely concerned with what the perpetrating ...