Security operatives in the Ivano-Frankivsk region have liquidated what they report was a powerful bot farm supervised from Russia. That’s according to the Security Service of Ukraine’s press office. The ring is believed to have…
This is not the first year that PICREADI has been involved in “creative diplomacy.” It brings young European professionals, graduate students and scholars together for Meeting Russia events in Europe and Russia. Promising foreign experts…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine hosted a panel discussion entitled “Building Resilience to Information Influence: Freedom of Speech as a Component of Information Security.” In particular, in her speech, First Deputy Foreign Minister…
Epitaph for Repose of 'Russian World'
July 15, 2021
Putin’s article on Russian-Ukrainian relations crowns the failure of the Kremlin’s policy in a strategic direction For 30 years of independent Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has been holding senior positions in the Russian Federation for more…
Information Security Doctrine
July 14, 2021
The Ukrainian Foundation for Security Studies researched the fight against information influence in Europe and outlined recommendations for the Information Security Strategy. Promote Ukraine publishes its main aspects. A significant number of global trends have…
Pro-Russian and anti-Western conspiracy in information warfare was assessed in a study by the Institute of Mass Information and Detector Media. Promote Ukraine highlighted the key trends of 2020-2021. According to the study, pro-Russian propaganda has…
In June 2021, the Cyber Security Situation Centre of the Security Service of Ukraine stopped and neutralised 76 cyber attacks on information systems of government agencies. The main types of cyber threats (hacker attacks) detected were:…
The security officers of the Main Directorate for Combating Organised Crime and Corruption of Belarus conducted searches in the editorial office of the Nasha Niva media outlet. According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists, searches were…
The foreign ministers of the Lublin Triangle countries (Ukraine, Lithuania, and Poland) signed three joint documents, including one supporting Ukraine’s membership in the European Union and NATO, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba posted on…
Alexander Lukashenka instructed Belarusian border troops to completely close the border with Ukraine. He made a relevant announcement at the celebrations on the occasion of Belarus Independence Day. According to Lukashenka, the reason for this…
Russian Repression
June 30, 2021
On 1 July 2020, Putin introduced a new time system for Russia. He began the “chronicle of the new time” with the “new” year 1937. Having reset presidential term limits to zero, the now “lifelong”…
The information about Washington’s alleged halt to a military aid package to Kyiv worth up to $100 million, as Politico reported the day before, is not true. This was stated by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki….
Uncovered Agents of Covert Wars
May 20, 2021
The Kremlin’s information wars occupy a special place in the Putin era among all the hacker attacks, contract poisonings, terrorism, digital asset-grabbing, financial support for left-wing radical movement, and political marginals. Behind Russia’s multibillion-dollar “promotion of…
Network of Online Resources Selling Fake Negative COVID-19 Test Results Blocked in Ukraine
May 20, 2021
Cyberexperts of the Security Service of Ukraine blocked a network of anonymous online resources through which dealers sold fake medical documents. In particular, the organisers sold fake negative COVID-19 test results and sick leave certificates. During the…
Ukraine Preparing to Create Cybertroops
May 15, 2021
In the near future, President Volodymyr Zelensky will issue a decree providing for the creation of cybertroops in Ukraine. “Today we considered issues related to cybersecurity; we approved the Cybersecurity Strategy of our country. Today,…
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) exposed and shut down the network of Internet agitators and a sockpuppet farm in Odesa city. The offenders disseminated fake information aimed at inciting interethnic hostility and propaganda of…
The Security Service of Ukraine blocked a new scheme of falsification of PCR test results. The dealers conspired with private medical institutions and “qualitatively” falsified the test results, entering the information into the Dii Vdoma…
Attack on Germany from Germany
April 30, 2021
Russian propaganda uses freedom of speech in the West to wage ideological warfare and promote Kremlin’s agenda At the Fifth International Forum of Russian-Language Electronic Media held in Moscow in September 2019, Dinara Toktosunova, the…
Exclusive: ‘Dissenting Opinion’ on Chornobyl Disaster
April 28, 2021
I have a lot of stories about the spring and summer of 1986, suffice for a few short novels. For now, I will limit myself to an excerpt I wrote for the book “Hennadiy Matsuka:…
Secret KGB Documents on Chornobyl Disaster Made Public
April 27, 2021
The State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine made public secret KGB documents: the first report on the explosion filed by Chornobyl NPP director Viktor Bryukhanov to the higher management, conversations of the plant…
