The Risk of Tunnel Vision in Targeting Russian Disinformation

Abstract

Contrasting the kinetic warfare that broke out after Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 with confrontations in the digital space shows that both war arenas came with different implications for NATO and EU member states. While Western powers were able to largely abstain from physical hostilities, limiting their involvement to providing weapons and military material to Ukrainian forces, in the digital sphere such abstention was not possible.

Keywords

• Disinformation, Russian War against Ukraine, Ukraine