Russia's migration weapon against Ukraine: a socio-cultural dimension

Abstract

The article is devoted to non-military and non-lethal means and instruments of the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which, in combination with conventional weapons, kills both combatants and civilians, destroys housing, infrastructure, generates, another powerful weapon against the object of aggression, which is migration that has a large and long-lasting "zone" of defeat. Defining the characteristics that turn migration into a tool of hybrid warfare is an acute problem in the face of our country's hybrid aggression of the Russian Federation. Finding adequate measures to eliminate the devastating effects of migration processes both inside and outside Ukraine nowadays, furthermore, perhaps, much more important for the future, is one of the national policy priorities, the key to national security. The migration consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian war are analyzed, which should be regarded as pre-planned means of conducting a hybrid war. The article focuses on the hidden and artificially disguised sociocultural aspects of the defeat of migrant weapons, such as artificial prohibition, restrictions, targeted movement of population from temporarily occupied areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. It is concluded that the concealment of socio-cultural defeat creates the effect of a slow-motion explosion, which can detonate at any moment and be used as a time mechanism in the hands of the aggressor in political, information, educational, mental spaces: loosening of social unity, creating agents of influence of "Russian peace", the introduction of intolerance and socio-regional xenophobia, the transformation of temporarily occupied territories into an educational and intellectual ghetto. The possibility and necessity of finding countermeasures to migratory weapons located in the same plane in which the areas of damage are created should be noted, to act adequately to eliminate the consequences and prevent recurrence.

Keywords

• hybrid war
• migration
• migration weapons
• temporarily occupied territories of donetsk and luhansk regions