Information Warfare as a Component of Russian Aggression against Ukraine: Historiography of the Problem
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2025.06.035Keywords:
Russia’s war against Ukraine, information warfare, identity, values, ideolog y, propaganda, fake, disinformation, historiography.Abstract
The purpose is to analyze the approaches of foreign and domestic scientists and experts to understanding the theoretical and methodological aspects of “information warfare” as a global phenomenon; to determine the degree of coverage of the features of the Russian information warfare against Ukraine and its tools; to reveal the state of research on the information and communication space of Ukraine in the conditions of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The methodology is based on the methods of historiographic analysis and historiographic synthesis. Scientific novelty. For the first time, a comprehensive analysis of the scientific achievements of Western and domestic scientists on the study of information warfare as a component of the modern Russian-Ukrainian confrontation has been conducted. Main results. It has been established that the subject-object field of publications on the problems of information warfare is: theoretical and methodological issues of this phenomenon; features of its conduct; the influence of Russian propaganda on the state of the national and civic identity of Ukrainians, their value orientations; actions of the Ukrainian authorities and civil society in the field of countering Russian ideological pressure through propaganda and disinformation. The bottlenecks in the array of already published works on this issue are identified. The latest works that have not yet been subjected to historiographic analysis are analyzed, and their historiographic significance for revealing the features of the Russian information war against Ukraine is clarified. Scientific problems that require further development are outlined. Recommendations are given for the further development by scientists of the problems of information war as a component of the modern Russian-Ukrainian confrontation.
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