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In 2016, Oxford Dictionaries selected the term “post-truth” as its international word of the
year. Objective facts have been losing their key role in politics and decision-making, causing an
overwhelming proliferation of fake news and public opinion manipulation. Western countries have
only now realized how vulnerable they are to post-truth, but Ukraine irst started feeling it in the
spring of 2014, when, ater the victory of the Euromaidan Revolution, the Kremlin launched its massive
propaganda campaign. Seeking to undermine Ukrainian statehood, both on the domestic (Ukrainian)
and international level, Russian agitprop has been targeting every potential audience, from housewives
to key decision makers.
Ater three years of war, against all odds, Ukrainian society has learned how to confront Russia’s
propaganda aggression through numerous initiatives aimed against the policy of post-truth. We
believe that Ukraine’s irst-hand experience can be useful to other countries and communities that are
just becoming aware of the new threats and challenges.
Ukraine has been countering Russian hybrid aggression in the Donbas and Crimea for three years. Our
research aims to ofer an introductory lecture for journalists, analysts, diplomats and experts trying to
comprehend the situation in the East of Ukraine, the region’s geographic and sociopolitical features,
external and internal causes and stages of the war. We also want to steer you away from the models,
stereotypes, and simpliications that oten appear in the media. It is especially important for us to
illustrate to our readers the hybrid nature of the military and propaganda aggression by the Kremlin,
and outline the ways to counter it.
We would like to thank the InformNapalm volunteer community for providing source material for this
research. We are also deeply grateful to the experts and journalists, who helped us with valuable ideas
and advice during our work.