This is not only a persistent threat to Ukraine as a strategic partner of the United States, but also to NATO’s security and, therefore, to the core interests of the United States. Russia will continue to use Ukraine’s information field to advance its interests, undermine US interests, and weaken Western alliances.
To ensure the security of its borders, to achieve lasting peace and stability in Europe, Ukraine needs to establish a strategic partnership with the United States.
At the same time, Ukraine could focus its efforts on its own security by building a state with the best military defense. But even in the best case scenario, Ukraine could not withstand Russian military pressure on its own.
Accordingly, an alliance with Western partners in matters of not only Ukraine’s external but also internal security is the only way that can guarantee protection from Russian aggression, as well as the protection of the rights and freedoms of Ukrainians.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba on the margins of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm. The high-ranking officials discussed deepening security cooperation between the two countries.
The Council of the European Union has adopted a decision to deepen cooperation with Ukraine through the newly established European Peace Facility.
Due to the occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and warfare in the east of Ukraine over 14 thousand people got affected by pro-Russian militants. 3,5 thousand out of 14 thousand died.
The Department of Defence has concluded an agreement with the US company SAFE Boats International on the construction of six Mark VI patrol boats for Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) exposed the network of agitators from Chernihiv, Mariupol and Zaporizhzia. They conducted informational and disruptive activities via information from Russia’s propagandistic online media outlets and websites of so-called “DPR/LPR”.
The number of casualties among the civilian population has doubled due to active hostilities in Donbas compared to the previous period of 6 months.
Systematically Russian propaganda brainwashes the minds of Ukrainian children on the temporarily occupied territories by means of a system of military and patriotic upbringing. The aim of the system includes not just a propaganda of the “Russian world” but also shaping a distinct image of an enemy represented by Ukraine, the West and Ukraine as a part of the Western world.
A non-governmental organization iDemocracy has carried out a monitoring of information space within Ukraine, the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as Russia and detected that militants’ and Russian media outlets broadly spread an anti-Ukrainian narrative about Ukraine’s “fencing off” Donbas at the end of June-beginning of July 2021.
Recently in the Ukrainian mass media it was published that the Security Service of Ukraine informed the Presidential Office about the high possibility of a terrorist threat on the part of Russia - has worried the non-governmental organization iDemocracy.
A non-governmental organization iDemocracy has carried out a monitoring of information space across Ukraine, the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts as well as Russia and detected that at the end of June-beginning of July 2021 there was an anti-Ukrainian narrative about Ukraine’s “fencing off” Donbas.
To turn soldiers and officers of their army into people who are ready to kill the enemy, special measures are taken that are aimed at dehumanizing the enemy – depriving him of human qualities. The aggressor carries out such actions in advance, in modern conditions – without stopping exclusively at the combat zone.
Sometimes banal and hackneyed things are correct. No matter how annoying they may seem. And it is better to repeat the same thing "one hundred hundred" times than to lose everything – sovereignty, the State, Human Rights and freedoms.
